Fireweed

10 best books like Fireweed (Jill Paton Walsh): Malamander, Floodland, The House with Chicken Legs, The Girl of Ink and Stars, The Girl Who Speaks Bear, Brightstorm, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, River Boy, Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery, The Island at the End of Everything

Malamander

Author

Thomas Taylor

Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous malamander creep…

Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel,...

Floodland

Author

Marcus Sedgwick

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

What if the sea began to rise . . . and rise . . . until the land began to disappear? A brilliant futuristic fantasy by an acclaimed new writer.

Global warming has caused the sea to rise until cities are turning into islands and civilization is...

The House with Chicken Legs

Author	Sophie Anderson
ISBN	1474940668

All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with.
But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian...

The Girl of Ink and Stars

Author	Kiran Millwood Hargrave
ISBN	1910002747

Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, and the British Book Awards' Children's Book of Year 2017

Forbidden to leave her island, Isabella Riosse dreams of the faraway lands her father once mapped.

When her closest friend disappears into the island’s Forgotten Territories,...

The Girl Who Speaks Bear

Author	Sophie Anderson
ISBN	1474940676

Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, 12-year-old Yanka has always felt out of place in her small village. When she wakes up to find that her legs have become bear legs, she sets off into the forest to discover who she is, on a journey that takes her from icy rivers to smouldering mountains, with an ever-growing...

Brightstorm

Author

Vashti Hardy

Twins Arthur and Maudie receive word in Lontown that their famous explorer father died in a failed attempt to reach South Polaris. Not only that, but he has been accused of trying to steal fuel from his competitors before he died! The twins don't believe the news, and they answer an ad to help crew a new exploration...

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

Author	Lucy Mangan
ISBN	0224098853

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.

She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...

River Boy

Author	Tim Bowler
ISBN	0689848048

Fifteen-year-old Jess's grandfather has just had a major heart attack, but he insists he finish his painting, River Boy. At first, Jess cannot understand why this painting is so important to her grandfather, especially since there doesn't seem to be any boy in it at all. But while swimming in the river...

Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery

Author

Joanna Cannon

An intimate, urgent account of doctor burnout and life as a psychiatrist from bestselling author Joanna Cannon "A few years ago, I found myself in A&E.

I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my...

The Island at the End of Everything

Author	Kiran Millwood Hargrave
ISBN	1910002763

Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards 2017

From the author of the bestselling tale The Girl of Ink & Stars comes a beautiful new adventure about finding your way home.

There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans...

The Bubble Boy

Author	Stewart Foster
ISBN	1471145409

They call it a crash when the blood goes from my head to my feet, pours out into the room and drains through a hole in the middle of the floor. They call it a crash when the walls start spinning and the pictures blur. Then the ceiling turns black and the floor turns black and I don't know which way I'm facing any...

Time Travelling with a Hamster

Author	Ross Welford
ISBN	0008156328

“My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve.

The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn’t been for his ‘time machine’…”

When Al Chaudhury discovers...