Cold Tom

6 best books like Cold Tom (Sally Prue): The Boy Who Steals Houses, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Skim, Wolf Brother, The Lady with the Little Dog, The Wind Singer

The Boy Who Steals Houses
AuthorC.G. Drews
ISBN1408349922
Can two broken boys find their perfect home?

Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day...
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
AuthorElif Shafak
ISBN0241293863
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were...
Skim
AuthorMariko Tamaki
ISBN0888997531
Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensitive graphic novel of the highest literary and artistic quality, by and about young women.

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls'...
Wolf Brother
AuthorMichelle Paver
ISBN0060728272
Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined.

In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told...
The Lady with the Little Dog
AuthorAnton Chekhov
*Illustrated
*Includes Table of Contents

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, particularly...
The Wind Singer
AuthorWilliam Nicholson
ISBN0786814179
Oh my goodness! I read this book when I was about eleven years old and I've been searching for it every since. No, really. You know those books you read as a kid that kind of stayed with you, but you can't remember the title? That was this book. I searched for it in the library, rooting through the orange coloured...
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