Crusader
10 best books like Crusader (Edward Bloor): Running Loose, Backwater, Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf, Detective Stories, Wolf Rider, Kipling's Choice, The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black, The Rogues, Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo Da Vinci's Servant, A Templar's Apprentice
| Author | Chris Crutcher |
| ISBN | 0060094915 |
[Note: Spoilers ahead.]
Louie Banks's senior year of high school looks like it's going to be amazing. His love life hasn't been so stellar in the past, but now he has an amazing girlfriend, Becky, who loves him for who he is--much to his amazement. He's spent the past summer working out and is now...
| Author | Joan Bauer |
| ISBN | 0142404349 |
Ivy doesn't want to be a lawyer. Who cares?-well, her father, for starters, who expects his daughter to take up the Breedlove family profession with dedication and enthusiasm. What Ivy wants to be is a historian, a vocation that's getting quite a workout as she prepares a family history in honor of her...
Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" --Midwest Children's Book Review
The Christmas parade gets furry in a hurry when three pranksters dressed as wise men toss some cats onto Sammy's float. Dogs shoot off in all directions, and the prize Pomeranian...
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0753451468 |
Young mystery fans will be enthralled by this compelling volume of classic detective fiction. Not even Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot can solve the dilemma of which one of these fifteen exciting and intriguing short stories to read first. The list of suspects - including such classic and contemporary...
On an ordinary evening, just as he's about to leave for a party, 15-year-old Andy Zadinski receives a phone call from a stranger that changes his life. The caller, Zeke, confesses to the murder of a young woman named Nina Klemmer. Andy immediately calls the police, who shrug it off as a gag or a crank call....
| Author | Geert Spillebeen |
| ISBN | 0618800352 |
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.
When World War I broke out, John, like his father...
| Author | Eden Unger Bowditch |
| ISBN | 1610880021 |
-In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from London, England; nine-year-old Wallace Banneker...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0399238980 |
When everyone in his Scottish village is violently evicted from their land by the laird, Roddy Macallan knows he must find a way to fight back. As his family escapes, making their way through the Scottish Highlands bound for Glasgow, Roddy sneaks home in search of a treasure his mother once told him was...
| Author | Christopher Peter Grey |
Milan, 1497. The height of the Renaissance. And for Giacomo, servant of the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci, it's the most difficult time of all. His Master has been working on the Last Supper, his greatest painting ever, for nearly two years. But has he finished it? He's barely started! The all-powerful...
| Author | Kat Black |
| ISBN | 0545056543 |
Scotland. 1307. Thirteen-year-old Tormod MacLeod is different. He knows things before they happen. Even his own brother treats him differently, and all Tormod can do is bide his time until he's old enough to leave the village and make something of himself. His chance comes sooner than expected when...
| Author | M.E. Rabb |
| ISBN | 0142500410 |
Sophie and Sam Shattenberg are two Jewish sisters from Queens, New York. Both love knishes and kosher pickles. Both have said “I’m wawkin’ here!” to cab drivers—and meant it. When the unthinkable happens and their father dies, the girls are devastated. Desperate to get away from their greedy...
| Author | Julio Cortázar |
| ISBN | 0872863336 |
The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography,...
A Thousand Shades of Blue
| Author | Robin Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1551439212 |
A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a group home. Her father is driving her crazy with his schedules and rules,...
Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
| Author | Asra Q. Nomani |
| ISBN | 0060571446 |
As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is...
The Game of Sunken Places
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0439416612 |
When Brian and Gregory receive an invitation to stay at a distant relative's strange manse . . . well, they should know better than to go, since this is a middle-grade adventure novel. But they go anyway. Why not? Once there, they stumble upon The Game of Sunken Places, a board game that mirrors a greater...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440227577 |
From one of the foremost mystery writers for young adults comes a gripping double mystery about a high school student who finds out that a stranger has kept a secret file on her entire life.
Kristi Evans and her parents can't understand why police detectives are telling them that a man named Douglas...
| Author | Sheralyn Pratt |
| ISBN | 1599554259 |
Utah. On Kathryn McCoy's list of top ten places she never wants to live, it's right up there at the top. When she accepts a job transfer to the Beehive state, Kathryn knows it's a step down career-wise, but it also reunites her with her best friend, Rhea Jensen - the private investigator she's learned to...
| Author | Janet Fife-Yeomans |
| ISBN | 1741963885 |
The world lost a beautiful artist when Heath Ledger died. I mourned his loss alongside millions around the world. Unfortunately, "Heath" reads like a series of tabloid articles organized into a book. While I was greatly interested to learn more about an actor whose film portfolio I both enjoy and admire,...
On a scenic riverbank outside Seattle, forensic geologist Raleigh Harmon accidentally digs up evidence linked to the local FBI's most famous unsolved mystery—D. B. Cooper's airplane hijacking and sudden disappearance.But when the Bureau hires Raleigh to help solve its legendary cold case,...
| Author | J. Minter |
| ISBN | 1582346674 |
It's that time of year: one of New York's premier magazines is compiling its annual "Hottest Private School Boy" issue. Jonathan, Mickey, David, Arno, and Patch all figure they're shoo-ins, but will the competition to be chosen as the cover model tear the guys apart? Add to that a few twists and turns...
| Author | Julian Rathbone |
| ISBN | 1566492866 |
-Una idea muy buena y distintiva pero que no se plasmó de la mejor forma.-
Género. Novela histórica (desde la acepción amplia del género).
Lo que nos cuenta. Una pequeña delegación al servicio del reino de Vijayanagara llega a Ingerland en plena Guerra de las Dos Rosas con la...
| Author | Hank Schwaeble |
| ISBN | 0515146919 |
5 of 5 Stars
Not long ago, I received an advance copy of The Angel of the Abyss: A Jake Hatcher Thriller by Hank Schwaeble. Having previously read American Nocturne, I was excited about the prospect of reading more of Hank's work. Then I found out, the new novel is the third book in a series. Even...
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
| Author | Thomas Norman DeWolf |
| ISBN | 0807072818 |
In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island,...
