City of Fire
10 best books like City of Fire (Laurence Yep): First Test, Princess Academy, Etiquette & Espionage, How to Train Your Dragon, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Darkest Part of the Forest, Half Magic, Ash, Rumpelstiltskin, How I Live Now
| Author | Tamora Pierce |
| ISBN | 0679889175 |
In the medieval and fantastic realm of Tortall, Keladry of Mindelan is the first girl to take advantage of the decree that permits females to train for knighthood. Up against the traditional hazing of pages and a grueling schedule, Kel faces only one real roadblock: Lord Wyldon, the training master...
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 1599900734 |
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of...
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper...
| Author | Cressida Cowell |
| ISBN | 0316737372 |
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "the Dragon Whisperer"...but it wasn't always so. Travel back to the days when the mighty warrior was just a boy, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans. Can Hiccup capture a dragon...
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| ISBN | 0670886580 |
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Discover Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie’s classic fantasy novel
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea...
The Darkest Part of the Forest
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 0316213071 |
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
Hazel lives...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152020683 |
Would you believe I grew up in Toledo, Ohio and never noticed while reading and re-reading this that it was set in my hometown? It's true. I don't know if I just figured ALL books were set there, and that's why the street names were so familiar or if I was just extraordinarily clueless. I figured it out finally...
| Author | Malinda Lo |
| ISBN | 0316040096 |
Cinderella retold
In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they...
| Author | Paul O. Zelinsky |
| ISBN | 0140558640 |
Richly hued oil paintings complement a story simply and gracefully told."Children...love the story for its mystery, and its familiarity. Adults will find that, like most classic fairy tales, this one rewards periodic rethinking." --New York Times Book Review"Zelinsky's smooth retelling and...
| Author | Meg Rosoff |
| ISBN | 0553376055 |
"Every war has turning points and every person too."
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London...
The Backstagers, Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause
| Author | James Tynion IV |
| ISBN | 1608869938 |
All the world's a stage . . . but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic literally!
When Jory transfers to an all-boys private high school, he's taken in by the only ones who don't treat him like a new kid, the lowly stage crew known as the Backstagers. Not only does he gain great, lifetime...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0152056785 |
Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools and temples. But that was long ago, before the Alds came. The Alds believe demons hide in words, and so they ban reading and writing, acts now punishable by death. What few books have survived are hidden in the Waylord's House for safekeeping,...
