Goody Hall
10 best books like Goody Hall (Natalie Babbitt): Hallucinations, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Death Comes as the End, Od Magic, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading, The Bell at Sealey Head, The House with Chicken Legs, The Penderwicks at Last, The Penderwicks in Spring, The Bat-Poet
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0307957241 |
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
| Author | Peter Høeg |
| ISBN | 0385315147 |
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...
It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0312981619 |
In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441013341 |
Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden's gift isolates him from people--and...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
| Author | Leah Price |
| ISBN | 0465042686 |
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441016308 |
Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous...
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...
Nine years, five older siblings, a few beloved dogs, and an endless array of adventures--these are the things that have shaped Lydia's journey since readers first met her in The Penderwicks in Spring.
Now it's summertime, and eleven-year-old Lydia is dancing at the bus stop, waiting for big...
The Penderwicks in Spring
| Author | Jeanne Birdsall |
| ISBN | 0375870776 |
Springtime is finally arriving on Gardam Street, and there are surprises in store for each member of the family. Some surprises are just wonderful, like neighbor Nick Geiger coming home from war. And some are ridiculous, like Batty's new dog-walking business. Batty is saving up her dog-walking money...
| Author | Randall Jarrell |
| ISBN | 0062050842 |
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days—he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.
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In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic--and to hold the title Chrestomanci... The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0064430847 |
Although I have been a fan of "The Unicorn Chronicles" I have never heard of this particular book from the Covilles. Although both this and the series revolve around unicorns while holding magic within the pages of the plot I don't think this one belongs to the same series but is instead a standalone book...
Lydia, Queen of Palestine
| Author | Uri Orlev |
| ISBN | 0140370897 |
Lydia must face her parents' divorce, the growing hostility toward Ro-mania's Jewish population, and her sudden relocation to a kibbutz in Palestine during World War II. "Often outrageous and abrasive, yet also delightfully imaginative, bright, and tenacious, Lydia is the archetype of a survivor,...
When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends. When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases...
De dood is een zware klus
De oude Syriër Abd al-Latief heeft een laatste wens: hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp. Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen. Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op: samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg. In een busje,...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0785270973 |
I have been on a C.S. Lewis-kick for sometime. I find that his writings are soul invigorating and speak to the logical side of my being. He has a way with words.
In reading “C.S. Lewis on Joy,” (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/c-s-l...) a compilation of writings of his focused on Joy,...
| Author | Catherine Aird |
| ISBN | 0553254421 |
The title may refer to evidence rising from the rubble and ashes. Set only a few decades after WW2, memories are the best way to reveal who shot and buried a pregnant young woman beneath a bombed-out building site under new construction. When one suspect is murdered, the perpetrator pool shrinks.
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| Author | Catherine Aird |
| ISBN | 1601870124 |
Just recently I read Past Tense, the most current in Catherine Aird's Inspector Sloan series. When I was hunting around for more books to read for the Birth Year Challenge: Time Machine Version, I was interested to see that the very first Sloan book, The Religious Body, was published in my target year:...
