Dangerous Games
10 best books like Dangerous Games (Joan Aiken): A Sudden Wild Magic, The Last Hunt, Fog Magic, Dragon Strike, The Chronicles of Faerie, The Diddakoi, She Was Nice To Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians, Cuttlefish, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, Greyhaven
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0380718510 |
Our world has long been protected by "The Ring" - a benevolent secret society of witches and conjurers dedicated to the continuance and well-being of humankind. Now, in the face of impending climatic disaster, the Ring has uncovered a conspiracy potentially more destructive than any it has ever had...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0545128072 |
Readers will be on the edge of their seats with this concluding episode of the riveting best-selling series by one of America's most gifted fantasy writers.
In the center if Luster stands an enormous tree called the Axis Mundi, the Heart of the World. But now that tree is wounded, pierced through...
Originally published in 1943, this edition features a rare cover by the ground-breaking illustrator Lynd Ward.
Greta had always loved the fog—the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was...
| Author | E.E. Knight |
| ISBN | 0451462351 |
The author of the national bestselling Vampire Earth series continues the saga of the world's last dragons.
Three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed, and the final hope for their species? survival. AuRon, Wistala, and Copper find themselves at odds over the coming human war....
| Author | O.R. Melling |
| ISBN | 0143312030 |
This gorgeous new collection of the first three volumes of the Chronicles of Faerie has been specially designed to appeal to young adult readers ages fourteen and up. It includes:
The Hunter's Moon
Findabhair and her cousin Gwen have always believed in magic and the other world, and...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0330398687 |
A read aloud of a childhood favourite.
Kizzy is from a traveller family, she lives with her Gran in a wagon parked in the orchard of Admiral Twiss' country estate.
She goes to the local school and is taunted and bullied. When the time comes Kizzy can't live with Gran anymore some disreputable...
| Author | Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy |
| ISBN | 0070565155 |
Written by the actress Ally Sheedy (well, Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy) when she only twelve years old. It's been on my shelf for a zillion years, and I finally cracked it open.
It tells the story of a mouse who resides in the court of Elizabeth I and keeps a diary of her observations. There is a framing...
| Author | Dave Freer |
| ISBN | 1616146257 |
The smallest thing can change the path of history.
The year is 1976, and the British Empire still spans the globe. Coal drives the world, and the smog of it hangs thick over the canals of London.
Clara Calland is on the run. Hunted, along with her scientist mother, by Menshevik spies and...
| Author | Thomas Malory |
| ISBN | 1401307809 |
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879978155 |
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
| Author | Barbara Cooney |
| ISBN | 0140541934 |
Let me pick on this book for a minute and share some thoughts on feminism.
First, as always, Cooney's pictures are lovely and imaginative! Each page is eye-candy. That's the pro.
The con: as with many stories that try to show women coming out from "the dark ages of domesticity," a certain...
Basic plot: Mallory frees a wizard from being trapped in a tree, antics ensue.
I like this book more for a funny thing that happened to me than for the content. The book was good- a cute, little fantasy story- but nothing that'll really be remembered over time the way The Chronicles of Narnia or...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 0261664794 |
(From the back cover)
The fabulous Miss Bianca has resigned, perhaps prematurely, as Madam Chairwoman of the Mouse Prisoners' Aid Society. In her honor an enchanting water picnic is held at the lily moat beneath a ruined turret in the park outside the city. While the band plays Handel's Water Music,...
| Author | Frances Mary Hendry |
| ISBN | 0374461554 |
QUEST FOR A MAID is the greatest YA novel I have read since THE PERILOUS GARD by Elizabeth Marie Pope. It's a standard YA novel in some ways -- a strong teen girl overcomes self doubt, makes friends, helps others, learns lessons. But it's set in Medieval Scotland, and the historical details and the setting...
| Author | Jill Paton Walsh |
| ISBN | 0140305602 |
I was ten when I read this book for the first time. It was recommended for me by my elementary school librarian, who knew I was into military history at the time, and who in hindsight was very clever to use this book's setting during the London Blitz to get me to read a story I otherwise never would have. Smart...
| Author | Tatsuya Hamazaki |
| ISBN | 1595328696 |
The .hack series really caught my attention as I was growing up. Over time, I lost interest the more I understood the likely motivations for yet another series, book, game, promotional website, anything .hack related on a quantity scale. The series offers scant breadcrumbs over the same well tread...
| Author | James Gurney |
| ISBN | 0740764314 |
Critics have gushed over Gurney's phantasmagorical creation, likening him to such venerated literary fantasists as Jules Verne, Wells, and J. R. R. Tolkien." -People magazine
The fourth book in James Gurney's best-selling Dinotopia series transports readers to an enthralling world...
| Author | L. Frank Baum |
| ISBN | 1419130919 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Alys Clare |
| ISBN | 0727868489 |
On Ely Island, the Normans are proclaiming their authority with the construction of a magnificent cathedral. When Morcar, fishing for eels nearby, is attacked, his cousin Lassair is sent to nurse him. Morcar tells Lassair a frightening tale of assassins in the dark and a brief vision of horror. Then...
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0545138825 |
From bestselling and National Book Award-winning author M.T. Anderson, a return to the world of THE GAME OF SUNKEN PLACES
Something very strange is happening in Vermont. It's not The Game of Sunken Places - Brian and Gregory have been through that before, and there's not supposed to be another...
The Essential H.P. Lovecraft Collection
Over a dozen essential works by H.P. Lovecraft are in one giant collection with an easy to navigate table of contents.
At the Mountains of Madness
The Call of Cthulhu
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Color Out of Space
Darkness
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Dreams...
