Forbidden City
9 best books like Forbidden City (William Bell): A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Haunted, Running Out of Time, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, Losing Joe's Place, Woods Runner, The Death Catchers, Minecraft: Essential Handbook
A Midsummer Night's Dream
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743477545 |
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
| Author | Washington Irving |
| ISBN | 0809594080 |
“I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around,...
| Author | Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| ISBN | 0002008211 |
Dee is feeding the chickens the morning that bones are discovered on the mountain. Something doesn't feel right—and her feeling is confirmed when local police show her a ring that they found with the bones, a ring belonging to Mary Ann Simpson, who disappeared four years earlier. Other girls, Dee...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 0439632501 |
Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening...
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 1596434864 |
Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590427695 |
I remember reading this for the first time so clearly. I was probably ten or twelve or thereabouts. I didn't think it was as immediately funny as other Gordon Korman books, but I remember telling my friend that it built to an amazing crescendo, where all its threads came together in a way that made me laugh...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0385738846 |
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.
But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois...
| Author | Jennifer Anne Kogler |
| ISBN | 0802721842 |
Dear Person-Holding-This,
I guess you must've found my letter. Well, when you read it, keep in mind that passing Mrs. Tweedy's English class is hard enough. But when the fate of the world suddenly rests on your shoulders, it's difficult to focus on school. I wish I'd handled things better, but...
Minecraft: Essential Handbook
| Author | Stephanie Milton |
| ISBN | 0545669936 |
Learn how to find resources, make a shelter, craft tools, armor and weapons, and protect yourself from monsters in the world of Minecraft!
You're alone in a mysterious new world, full of hidden dangers. You have only minutes to find food and shelter before darkness falls and the monsters come...
