Dragon Cauldron
10 best books like Dragon Cauldron (Laurence Yep): Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness, Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Sign of the Dove, Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China, Sword, Dragon and Herdsman, The Kappa Child, Jennifer Murdley's Toad, Dragon's Heart, The Adventures of Mr. Toad: From The Wind in the Willows
| Author | Nahoko Uehashi |
| ISBN | 0545102952 |
Balsa returns to her native Kanbal to clear the name of Jiguro, her dear mentor, who saved her life when she was six years old. But what should be a visit of truth and reconciliation becomes a fight for her life when she learns that Jiguro had been a member of King Rogsam's personal bodyguard. After Jiguro...
| Author | Nalo Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0967968321 |
The lushness of language and the landscape, wild contrasts, and pure storytelling magic abound in this anthology of Caribbean writing. Steeped in the tradition of fabulism, where the irrational and inexplicable coexist with the realities of daily life, the stories in this collection are infused...
| Author | Susan Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0689824491 |
Susan always thinks of creative things. Because of the dragon sculpture she brought for her husband, she wrote books about dragons. This book is connected to the Dragon’s Milk[which i haven’t read yet]. At first, i thought is wasn’t a good book until i read it. It just made me to read more and more.
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| Author | Kang Zhengguo |
| ISBN | 0393064670 |
With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's China,...
| Author | Da Chen |
| ISBN | 0061447587 |
On the morning of Miu Miu's fifteenth birthday, her mother makes a startling revelation: Miu Miu's fate is to travel to the faraway city of Chang'an, avenge her father's death, and find her true love. But the evil emperor has other plans for her. Defeating him will take all of Miu Miu's courage, wit, and...
| Author | Timothy Zahn |
| ISBN | 0765352761 |
Orphan Jack Morgan, after losing his Uncle Virgil, has bonded with Dracos, K’da poet-warrior who requires hours daily on his host's back to survive, and escaped with fellow mercenary Alison Kayna, to the primitive Rho Scorvi planet. But they find a small lost colony of Draycos’s own race, the Phookas,...
| Author | Hiromi Goto |
| ISBN | 0889952280 |
From the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Award, The Kappa Child is the tale of four Japanese Canadian sisters struggling to escape the bonds of a...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0671794019 |
Jennifer Murdley had no idea what she was getting into the day she bought the big toad from the strange man who ran Elives' Magic Shop. The thing didn't even start talking to her until she had it out of the shop. And once the toad did start to talk, it still kept a lot of secrets. So Jennifer didn't find out about...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152059199 |
Austar IV isn't the planet it once was, and when Jakkin and Akki finally return to the dragon nursery, their homecoming arouses mixed emotions. Together they've survived the insurmountable, and now they can weather the brutal conditions of Dark After and communicate with the dragons they love. But...
The Adventures of Mr. Toad: From The Wind in the Willows
| Author | Kenneth Grahame |
| ISBN | 0763605816 |
I chose the book because it was short but with a lot of interesting parts. It was a lot better than I expected. The book was about Mr. Toad using his car crazily. His friends grounded him since he would go to the hospital from every brutal accident he does with his car. He escapes one day and finds a car that looks...
Steam-Powered 2: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories
| Author | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| ISBN | 1610405439 |
These fifteen thrilling and ingenious tales take the familiar genre of steampunk in exciting new directions, following women from across the globe and through pasts that never were (but could have been) on their search for money, adventure, prestige, freedom--and the love of another woman. Here...
Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since witnessing her parents’ drowning during a hurricane. Three years later, another hurricane is heading toward the island, and Alyssa must come to terms with her parents’ deaths to save her grandfather and brother. “This book will have appeal for...
Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow...
American Indian Trickster Tales
| Author | Richard Erdoes |
| ISBN | 0140277714 |
Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest,...
Hahaha this is my favourite series in the world, with it's nail biting moments loveable characters and steadfast heroes this series has captured my heart for the past 5 years of my young life... The ballads, songs, poems and riddels are beyond amazing and add so much to this wonderful series... I so dearly...
A trinity of stories about magic, and all the trouble that arises when magic and emotion collide.
The Dragon Slayer—Tane has been banished to a remote village and bound there by magic. With nowhere else to go and nothing better to do, he has taken the village under his care and protects it by...
Captain of the Temple Police is not an easy job. Gerard wasn't expecting it to be easy…but he also didn't expect to have to fight off the Priestess's overtures at every turn. While he isn't against killing, torture seems dishonorable, and a visit to the dungeons leaves Gerard feeling more than a little...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0061052981 |
Justin Sterling is a loner. Formerly Justinian, Lord Sterling, he has lived for centuries in, but not of, our world, serving an ancient entity known only as the Dragon. Justin's reward is immortality, but to keep it he must keep killing. He has grown to hate his interminable life, soaked in blood, almost...
