Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
10 best books like Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (Brian Jacques): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Annison's Risk, King of Shadows, The Borrowers Aloft, Escape Into the Night, The Magic World, Parsifal's Page, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze, Pirateology, The Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Author | J.K. Rowling |
ISBN | 0545010225 |
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.
The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing...
Author | Paul McCusker |
ISBN | 1561798096 |
"This was supposed to be a fairy tale, but it's turning into a nightmare!"Squeezing farther beneath the musty porch of her house, Maddy Nicholaivitch is sure she's found the perfect hiding place. But as she inches closer to a strange glow of light, her senses reel when she finds she has just passed into...
Author | Susan Cooper |
ISBN | 1416905324 |
WHAT'S NAT DOING IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME?Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a new replica of the...
Author | Mary Norton |
ISBN | 1858815940 |
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock -- the family of tiny Borrowers -- think they have at last found an ideal home. They've moved into a house in a miniature village built as a hobby by a retired railroad man. The village is the perfect size for the Borrowers, and after the hardships they've faced, the Clocks...
Author | Lois Walfrid Johnson |
ISBN | 1556613512 |
"At the shore of the river, Libby stepped down, expecting to find ice. Instead, cold water rose around her feet. Suddenly she yelped. “Hush!” came the quick warning from above. Libby leaped from the water to a foothold in the bank. Just then a voice cried out. “Over here!” a man shouted. “Get...
Author | E. Nesbit |
ISBN | 0140367659 |
Not everyone is successful at writing literary fairytales, especially those stories that mix the modern world with traditional wonder tales of magic and enchantment. Joan Aiken was one who mastered this deft conjoining of old and new, as did her predecessor Edith Nesbit. Maybe it takes a special individual,...
Author | Gerald Morris |
ISBN | 0618055096 |
Piers is desperate to become a page to escape the dirty, tedious labor of his father’s blacksmith shop. So when a knight arrives announcing that he’s on “the quest,” Piers begs to go along. Off on a series of adventures he never dreamed possible, Piers and the knight quickly run into difficulties....
Author | Jane Yolen |
ISBN | 0064408477 |
Odysseus believed the age of heroes was over. Then he and his friend, along with a spoiled princess named Helen and her cousin Penelope, are kidnapped by pirates!
Their journey leads them to Crete, where Odysseus must face the secret at the heart of the Labyrinth. There was a time when the Minotaur...
Author | Dugald A. Steer |
ISBN | 0763631434 |
Aar! Hoist the sails for a lavish new discovery filled with treasures — a magnificent resource for pirate lovers everywhere. The eagerly awaited new title in the best-selling ’Ology series — more than 5 million sold worldwide!
Step lively, pirate foes and fanciers! Mysterious booty...
Author | Sid Fleischman |
ISBN | 0440415837 |
THE GHOST IN THE NOON DAY SUN
Sid Fleischman
“Have Treasure-Need Kid Bait"
This is a light read for kids—no real meat for adults here--but good fun, with surprise twists one very other page—even on the Same page! Fourteen-year-old Oliver Finch dreams of going to sea, instead...
Author | Terry McGarry |
ISBN | 0812540034 |
After a lifetime of training, Liath was proud to have passed her final challenge and become a true mage, ready to journey the land of Eiden Myr and find a Triad to bond with as an Illuminator. But the very night of her triumph, her light fails her: She can no longer see the magical illumination guiders, and...
Author | Wayne Thomas Batson |
ISBN | 1400312167 |
Brace yourself for a thrilling high-seas adventure and dare to set sail for the "Isle of Fire."
""A great explosion rocked the crowded harbor. Flaming debris screamed into the sky and then rained down into the burning water below. The ferocious blaze engulfed ship after ship expanding the...
Author | Bryan Davis |
ISBN | 0899578713 |
Walter, Ashley, and Karen ride the dragon Thigocia in search of her son, Gabriel, and her long-lost mate, Makaidos. When Walter and Ashley find an army of giants hibernating in the depths of the earth, they meet a mysterious girl named Sapphira Adi who claims to be thousands of years old. Sapphira...
Author | Lloyd Alexander |
ISBN | 0141304715 |
Who could resist a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to the Grand Duchess of Drackenberg's Diamond Jubilee Celebration? Not Vesper Holly! Off she goes, with her guardian, Brinnie, and his wife, Mary, and plunges into a plot involving a takeover attempt from neighboring Carpatia.
In short...
Author | T.A. Barron |
ISBN | 0142419214 |
Bk. 15
The book started with Merlin and his family in their home in the forest. Merlin, as he tries to play the magical instrument he created is interrupted by a message from the dwarf leader Urnalda, instructing him to repay his debt by helping them with the dragon that had awoken. Merlin is forced...
Author | Karen Hesse |
ISBN | 0689839898 |
It is known that in the summer of 1768, Captain James Cook sailed from England on H.M.S Endeavour, beginning a three-year voyage around the world on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe. What is less known is that a boy by the name of Nicholas Young was a stowaway on...