Cruel Kings and Mean Queens

10 best books like Cruel Kings and Mean Queens (Terry Deary): Calamity Jack, A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors, Seeing Redd, Reckless, Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, Fearless, The Locket of Dreams, The Ruby Talisman, Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland, Emperor Doom

Calamity Jack

Author	Shannon Hale
ISBN	1599900769

Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind...with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying...

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors

Author	Michael Farquhar
ISBN	0140280243

From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class.

Gleeful, naughty, sometimes...

Seeing Redd

Author	Frank Beddor
ISBN	0803731558

Alyss of Wonderland's rule has only just begun, and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed royal bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the non-stop demands of being queen while attempting...

Reckless

Author

Cornelia Funke

Ever since Jacob Reckless was a child, he has been escaping to a hidden world through a portal in his father's abandoned study. Over the years, he has made a name for himself as a finder of enchanted items and buried secrets. He's also made many enemies and allies--most important, Fox, a beautiful shape-shifting...

Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series

Author	Rick Riordan
ISBN	0979233143

Released just before the March 2013 feature film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, this new edition is updated through The Last Olympian, and includes several brand new essays!

The #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson series—The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s...

Fearless

Author	Cornelia Funke
ISBN	1906427267

Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live.

He's tried everything to shake the Fairy curse that traded his life for his brother's — legends such as the All-Healing Apple, the Well of Eternal Youth, the blood of a northern Djinn. And yet hope after hope is extinguished. After months of...

The Locket of Dreams

Author

Belinda Murrell

When Sophie falls asleep wearing a locket that belonged to her grandmother's great grandmother, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about the mysterious Charlotte Mackenzie.

Charlotte and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty Scottish island. Then disaster...

The Ruby Talisman

Author

Belinda Murrell

When Tilly's aunt tells her of their beautiful French ancestress, she shows Tilly a priceless heirloom. Tilly falls asleep wearing the ruby talisman, wishing she could escape to a more adventurous life... In 1789 Amelie-Mathilde is living in luxury at the opulent palace of Versailles - but her guardians...

Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland

Author

Kevin Crossley-Holland

The definitive collection of British and Irish folktales from master storyteller and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland.

Rich and strange, these eerie and magical folktales from across Britain and Ireland have been passed down from generation to generation, and are gathered together in a definitive...

Emperor Doom

Author	David Michelinie
ISBN	0871352567

To combat those threats which no single hero can stand against, Earth's mightiest heroes have forged together, from across America, to unite in battle for the protection of all mankind!

For years the Avengers have fought to keep the world free - but now Victor Von Doom, despotic monarch of Latveria...

The Kings and Queens of England and Scotland

Author	Plantagenet Somerset Fry
ISBN	0802113869

This book which really acts as a guide gives a summary of the British and Scottish monarchies from the beginning of history to the present. It includes the royal dynasties such as the Plantagenets, the Lancasters, the Yorks, the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Hanoverians, as well as the Windsors. At the...

Bulging Brains

Author	Nick Arnold
ISBN	0590113194

The Author For This Story Book is Nick Arnold.The part that i enjoy the most is when they were talking about how your brain work.I Feel that it will be disgusting to look through your brains and touch the veins or blood vessels.I Had learned how the brain works with our sences.I would briefly tell you the...

Deadly Diseases

Author	Nick Arnold
ISBN	0439013682

As a child I loved both history and science, so as you can imagine I loved both the Horrible Histories books and the Horrible Science books.

Whilst I did enjoy the Horrible Science books, I never read quite as many as I did the Horrible Histories books. For me, even as a child, the Horrible Science...

The Sequin Star

Author	Belinda Murrell
ISBN	0857982052

In an  exciting timeslip tale, Claire finds an old trunk filled with her grandmother's treasures, including an old star-shaped brooch covered in sequins

Why does Claire's wealthy grandmother own such a cheap piece of jewelry? The mystery deepens when the brooch hurtles Claire back in time...

The Quest for the Sun Gem

Author	Belinda Murrell
ISBN	1742753817

A new fantasy adventure trilogy for children—can four young friends find the Sun Gem, before the Sedah invaders can find them?

Five travellers true, a treacherous journey to take
A princeling to save, a kingdom at stake,
Fire, plague, sea and snow must test,
To the ends of...

The Great Big British Joke Book: 1000 Jokes, Puns, Gags and One-Liners

Author

Hugh Murr

How do weightlifters get to work? They take the strain

Did you hear about the time Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes were both trying to solve the same case? It was a great example of detective friction.

Which body of water is the most precise? The Specific Ocean

I tried making...

Esme's Gift

Author

Elizabeth Foster

Coming December 2019!

In the enchanted world of Aeolia, fifteen-year-old Esme Silver is faced with her hardest task yet. She must master her unruly Gift – the power to observe the past – and uncover the secrets she needs to save her mother, Ariane.

In between attending school in...

Weird Laws from Around the World

Author

Manik Joshi

Weird laws, Dumb Laws, Funny Laws, Crazy Laws from around the world. Weird laws from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Russia,...