Empire of Ruins
10 best books like Empire of Ruins (Arthur Slade): Beastly Bones, The Law of Finders Keepers, Short, Greetings from Witness Protection!, The Inventor's Secret, Manners & Mutiny, The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, Ghostly Echoes, Lycans and Legends: A Steampunk Fairy Tale, The Dire King
Author | William Ritter |
ISBN | 1616203544 |
I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality . . .
In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail...
Author | Sheila Turnage |
ISBN | 0803739621 |
Pirates, family, and the truth about Mo's Upstream Mother collide in the conclusion to the Newbery Honor and
New York Times
bestselling
Three Times Lucky
When the Colonel and Miss Lana share the clues about Mo's watery origins that they've been saving, it seems the time is finally...
Author | Holly Goldberg Sloan |
ISBN | 0399186212 |
Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes...
Greetings from Witness Protection!
Author | Jake Burt |
ISBN | 1250107113 |
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals’ best bet...
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Sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth they have their health (at least when they can find enough food...
Author | Gail Carriger |
ISBN | 0316190284 |
If one must flirt...flirt with danger.
Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia's sootie Soap nearby. She would rather thwart dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored....
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Author | Kim Newman |
ISBN | 1781165726 |
A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians....
Author | William Ritter |
ISBN | 1616205792 |
Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly lady of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the investigative services of her fellow residents to solve a decade-old murder—her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, Detective R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold case, starting with a search for Jenny’s fiancé, who...
Lycans and Legends: A Steampunk Fairy Tale
Someone is trying to assassinate the Queen.
After stopping a mysterious preternatural assailant wielding an enchanted dagger, Clemeny is on the hunt. Why is someone after Victoria? To find answers, Clemeny Louvel must travel to the one place she’s been avoiding, the Summer Country. Among...
Author | William Ritter |
ISBN | 1616207620 |
The fate of the world is in the hands of detective of the supernatural R. F. Jackaby and his intrepid assistant, Abigail Rook. An evil king is turning ancient tensions into modern strife, using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. Jackaby and Abigail...
Author | Andrea Cremer |
ISBN | 0399164243 |
Charlotte may have left the Floating City, but she’s not out of danger yet. On the run from the British Empire’s clutches, she leads her group of exiles west and south, plunging into a wild world of shady merchants and surly rivermen on the way to New Orleans.
But the more Charlotte learns...