Fork-Tongue Charmers
10 best books like Fork-Tongue Charmers (Paul Durham): Magic Marks the Spot, The Fog Diver, Jinx, The Menagerie, River Runs Deep, The Lives We Lost, The Locket of Dreams, The Lost Compass, The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher, The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw
| Author | Caroline Carlson |
| ISBN | 0062194348 |
Admiral Westfield sucked in his breath and released it in a tremendous gust. “My dear,” he said, “let me be clear: You are a young lady. You will not tell silly tales and you will never be a pirate.”
Hilary Westfield has always dreamed of being a pirate. She can tread water for thirty-seven...
| Author | Joel N. Ross |
| ISBN | 0062352938 |
A deadly white mist has cloaked the earth for hundreds of years. Humanity clings to the highest mountain peaks, where the wealthy Five Families rule over the teeming lower slopes and rambling junkyards. As the ruthless Lord Kodoc patrols the skies to enforce order, thirteen-year-old Chess and his...
| Author | Sage Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0062129902 |
In the Urwald, you don’t step off the path. Trolls, werewolves, and butter-churn riding witches lurk amid the clawing branches, eager to swoop up the unwary. Jinx has always feared leaving the path—then he meets the wizard Simon Magus.
Jinx knows that wizards are evil. But Simon’s kitchen...
| Author | Tui T. Sutherland |
| ISBN | 0060780649 |
Logan Wilde is accidentally drawn into the mysterious, dangerous world of the Menagerie when he discovers a griffin hiding under his bed . . . and it leads him straight to the weirdest girl in seventh grade, Zoe Kahn.
Zoe is panicking. Her family has been guarding the Menagerie for centuries....
| Author | Jennifer Bradbury |
| ISBN | 1442468246 |
When a boy is sent to Mammoth cave to fight a case of consumption, little does he know he'll also be fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves, who are hidden deep within the cave.
Twelve-year-old Elias has consumption, so he is sent to Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, the biggest...
| Author | Megan Crewe |
| ISBN | 1423146174 |
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First, the virus took Kaelyn’s friends. Then, her family. Now it’s taken away her home.
But she can't look back—the life she once had is gone forever.
A deadly virus has destroyed Kaelyn’s small island community and spread beyond the quarantine....
When Sophie falls asleep wearing a locket that belonged to her grandmother's great grandmother, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about the mysterious Charlotte Mackenzie.
Charlotte and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty Scottish island. Then disaster...
| Author | Joel N. Ross |
| ISBN | 0062352970 |
In the high-stakes sequel to The Fog Diver, thirteen-year-old Chess and his crew must stop the deadly and mysterious Fog from enveloping the city of Port Oro and destroying their world.
Chess and his crew—Hazel, Swedish, and Bea—may have escaped the slums, but they cannot escape the Fog...
| Author | Doug MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0143203916 |
"You must think it strange that I'm digging up my grandfather."
"Not at all. I'm sure many young men dig up their grandfathers."
Thomas Timewell is sixteen and a gentleman. When he meets a body-snatcher called Plenitude, his whole life changes. He is pursued by cutthroats, a tattooed gypsy...
The League of Princes returns in the hilariously epic conclusion to the hit series that began with Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, which the Los Angeles Times called "one of the more clever, hilariously successful incarnations of the current literary rage to rip apart...
My Little Pony: Friends Forever, Volume 1
It is time for 4 stories about our pony girls! From baking to ghosts.
I had to read this one for a copycat challenge in one of my groups. I have always been a bit curious about MLP, though never made the step to actually try it out. I have to say that after reading this I may just not read the comics, but...
| Author | Philip Reeve |
| ISBN | 0192734555 |
Oliver grew up in a family of explorers - but his biggest adventure is about to begin!
Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes off in search of his missing parents. But before he can put his rescue plan into action...
| Author | Damien Lewis |
| ISBN | 1848665369 |
Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bringing...
| Author | Elizabeth Pulford |
| ISBN | 1921529881 |
Critically injured in a motorbike accident, Zara Wilson lies in a coma. She is caught between many worlds: the world of her hospital room and anxious family, and that of her memories and a dream-like fantasy where she searches for her brother Jem. Jem proves elusive but Zara s adventures in her subconscious...
| Author | Kate Gordon |
| ISBN | 1864718811 |
"My name is Tessa. I am strong. I am brave. I do not cry. These are the only things I know for certain. I was found in the outback, ragged as a wild thing. I have no memory; not even of how I got the long slashes across my back. They make me frightened of what I might remember. The policewoman, Connolly, found me;...
