Hook

5 best books like Hook (Terry Brooks): The Tea Dragon Festival, The Red Queen's Daughter, Homo Faber, Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave, Toughboy and Sister

The Tea Dragon Festival
AuthorKatie O'Neill
ISBN1620106558
Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn’s adventuring uncle...
AuthorJacqueline Kolosov
ISBN1423107977
Mary Seymour is the daughter of the great Katherine Parr--the last Queen of Henry VIII. Orphaned at a young age because of her mother's bad marriage to Thomas Seymour, Mary determines early on that love is a sentiment that causes foolishness at best, and death at worst. She is sent to be raised by Lady Strange,...
Homo Faber
AuthorMax Frisch
ISBN0156421356
April 20, 2011:

I bought this book in 1979 and read it sometime in the early 80's.

It's only a couple of hundred pages, so when Praj asked me to review it, I thought, hey, why not re-read it (even though I very rarely re-read books).

April 22, 2011:

Re-reading this novel...
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
-POTENTIAL SPOILERS-

Oh, Ann Rinaldi. I've read almost all of your books and the most I can say is that they're a definite acquired taste.

She has a knack for randomly switching the speed of her pacing-sometimes the story is paced extremely slowly, and other times it's really fast....
Toughboy and Sister
AuthorKirkpatrick Hill
ISBN0140348662
They've never faced danger before. Now they're alone--and they have no choice.

Every summer, Toughboy and his younger sister stay at their isolated family fish camp on the Yukon River. There, away from their Alaskan village, they help their parents catch and smoke salmon. But that was before...
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