Giants and Ogres
10 best books like Giants and Ogres (Tristram Potter Coffin): The Mystery at Lilac Inn, Petals on the Wind, My Sweet Audrina, The Bungalow Mystery, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Hidden Staircase, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, To Walk the Night, Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery, The Wind from Hastings
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1557091587 |
There was certainly a lot of action and danger for Nancy in The Mystery at Lilac Inn. As usual, multi-talented Nancy has no problem solving the case all while conveniently and artfully dodging danger. It certainly helps that luck and fate sure seem to be on her side. She always seems to have the right tools,...
| Author | V.C. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0671729470 |
They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror!
For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.
And...
| Author | V.C. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0671729462 |
V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.
Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1557091579 |
The book starts off with heart pounding action, as Nancy and her friend Helen are caught out on the lake in a thunderstorm. Will they reach the shore through the blowing winds and treacherous waves? Luckily, a young gal, Laura, hears Nancy's cries for help and rescues the two. After introductions are...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247749 |
To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide.
The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0448095025 |
After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen's Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie...
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247765 |
For my entire life, I have been reading Beatrix Potter's works and I had enjoyed most of the ones I had read! Now, I had picked up an old classic from my childhood, “The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.” In this tale, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, a distinguished frog, begins having the adventure of a lifetime when he...
| Author | William Sloane |
| ISBN | 0345286030 |
Years ago I read William Sloane’s second (and last) novel, The Edge of Running Water. I had copies of both of his novels, but I read the second one first because I liked its title better than the first’s, To Walk the Night. Or maybe I read it first because its pages weren’t as old and yellow and brittle....
| Author | Alfred Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0394867629 |
"Good evening, and welcome to Alfred Hitchock's Ghostly Gallery..." So begins the introduction to this marvelous book for young readers presented by none other than the master of the macabre himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Following his invitation to "browse through my gallery", readers will find ghoulish...
| Author | Morgan Llywelyn |
| ISBN | 1568496133 |
Edyth, wife of King Harold of England, disappeared forever on the day of the great Battle of Hastings in 1066, taking with her the legitimate heirs to the thrones of England and Wales. This is the story of that amazing woman, who loved and married the King of Wales and then the man who would be King of England,...
The Edge of Running Water
| Author | William Sloane |
| ISBN | 0345286022 |
The Edge of Running Water deals with the adventures of a young psychologist in a remote Maine farm house; with the death of a woman and the disappearance of an inventor. Against a normal enough background, events take on the shape of terror, with a tinge of the unknown - hints of things beyond the borderland...
