Fierce September
10 best books like Fierce September (Fleur Beale): 2010: Odyssey Two, Wonderstruck, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, Wings: A Fairy Tale, A Face Like Glass, Grace, Danny the Champion of the World, My Sister Jodie, Here Lies Arthur, Crookedstar's Promise
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345413970 |
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.
Without...
| Author | Brian Selznick |
| ISBN | 0545027896 |
Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone...
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
| Author | Marilyn Johnson |
| ISBN | 0061431605 |
In This Book is Overdue!, acclaimed author Marilyn Johnson celebrates libraries and librarians, and, as she did in her popular first book, The Dead Beat, discovers offbeat and eloquent characters in the quietest corners. In defiance of doomsayers, Johnson finds librarians more vital and necessary...
| Author | E.D. Baker |
| ISBN | 1599901935 |
There's always been something a little unusual about Tamisin. Her freckles look more like sparkles, and the full moon makes her want to dance.
But nothing could have prepared her for the day when real, working fairy wings sprout from her back. At school there's a new guy named Jak, who seems to...
| Author | Frances Hardinge |
| ISBN | 0230763502 |
In Caverna, lies are an art — and everyone's an artist...
In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare. They create wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0670073903 |
Eleven-year-old Grace has been brought up in a very strict religious community where questions and individual thinking are not allowed. This has become a problem for Grace as she is starting to grow up and be curious about life. She is also stubborn and independent and this is absolutely frowned upon...
Danny the Champion of the World
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0375814256 |
Danny’s life seems perfect: his home is a gypsy caravan, he’s the youngest car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. And when Danny discovers his father’s secret, he’s off on the adventure of a lifetime. Here’s Roald Dahl’s famous...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0385610122 |
Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the younger one, small, shy and anxious. Jodie is nearly three years older, bold and brash and bad and Pearl adores her. When their parents get new jobs at Melchester College, a Victorian Gothic mansion, the girls spend a bizarre summer holiday in the boarding school...
| Author | Philip Reeve |
| ISBN | 0439955335 |
Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard - a traveller and spinner of tales. But Myrdin transfroms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy. Without Gwyna, Myrddin will not be able to work the most glorious transformation of all - and turn the leader of a...
| Author | Erin Hunter |
| ISBN | 0061980978 |
Two healthy kits have just been born in Riverclan--Oakkit and Stormkit. The whole Clan rejoices, and no cat is more pleased than their mother, who immediately recognizes her kits' innate skill and bravery.
But when tragedy befalls Stormkit and he is permanently disfigured, his mother renames...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1566563313 |
The ‘Watertower’ is essentially a graphic novel or visual text, making use of both words and art to impart the story. The books itself centres around two boys who decide to explore an old water tower, which towers over the small mid American town of Preston. The Water tower dominates the town, standing...
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 1338298399 |
From the visionary Shaun Tan, an inspirational story for older picture book readers and beyond
Cicada tells the story of a hardworking little cicada who is completely unappreciated for what he does. But in the end, just when you think he's given up, he makes a transformation into something ineffably...
| Author | Constance Briscoe |
| ISBN | 0340895993 |
I read some of the reviews of this book and found out how some people are criticizing about the 'writing', 'grammar' or 'repetitiveness.
This book is an account of a child's memories of how she was abused, humiliated and rejected. This is a powerful book. The very beauty of biographies is that...
The Whips, as silent as hunting cats, surrounded Blood Burrow in the hour before sun-up and began their sweep as the morning dogs began to howl. Their gray tunics turned black in the downpour, their helmets shone like beetle wings and the sparks that jumped from their fingers as they herded their recruits...
