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Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, a Very Strange Adventure

10 best books like Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, a Very Strange Adventure (Lissa Evans): Malamander, Shackleton's Journey, Winterling, Varjak Paw, Cloud Busting, Fake Mustache, The Naming of Tishkin Silk, The Templeton Twins Have an Idea, Azzi in Between, Archie's War

Malamander
AuthorThomas Taylor
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous malamander creep…

Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel,...
Shackleton's Journey
AuthorWilliam Grill
ISBN1909263109
Winner of the 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2014
Best Children’s Book of 2014, Wall Street Journal
Best Children’s Book of 2014, Brain Pickings
A 2015 USBBY Outstanding International Book

Young, up-and-coming illustrator William...
Winterling
AuthorSarah Prineas
ISBN0061921033
“We live here, my girl, because it is close to the Way, and echoes of its magic are felt in our world. The Way is a path leading to another place, where the people are governed by different rules. Magic runs through them and their land.”With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt...
Varjak Paw
AuthorS.F. Said
ISBN0440420768
Mesopotamian Blue cat, Varjak Paw, has never been Outside before; he and his family have always lived in the isolated house at the top of the hill. But Varjak is forced out into the city when the sinister Gentleman and his two menacing cats take over his home. With help from his mystical ancestor, Jalal,...
Cloud Busting
AuthorMalorie Blackman
ISBN0440866154
Despite his Mum's insistence, Sam doesn't want to be friends with Davey, he thinks Davey's a first class, grade A, top of the dung heap moron. But one day Davey saves Sam's life and a bond is formed between them. Sam is still embarrassed to be seen with Davey, but little by little he has to admit, when it's...
Fake Mustache
AuthorTom Angleberger
ISBN1419701940
Award-winning author Tom Angleberger flexes his comic muscle in this hairy adventure story with twists at every turn.

Regular kid Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend—Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis—and world domination. It all begins...
The Naming of Tishkin Silk
AuthorGlenda Millard
ISBN0733313140
Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the aching absence of his mother and baby sister. Where have they gone and will they be coming home again? When Griffin...
The Templeton Twins Have an Idea
AuthorEllis Weiner
ISBN0811866793
Suppose there were 12-year-old twins, a boy and girl named John and Abigail Templeton. Let's say John was pragmatic and played the drums, and Abigail was theoretical and solved cryptic crosswords. Now suppose their father was a brilliant, if sometimes confused, inventor. And suppose that another...
Azzi in Between
AuthorSarah Garland
ISBN1847802613
Azzi and her parents are in danger. They have to leave their home and escape to another country on a frightening journey by car and boat. In the new country they must learn to speak a new language, find a new home and Azzi must start a new school. With a kind helper at the school, Azzi begins to learn English...
Archie's War
AuthorMarcia Williams
ISBN0763635324
Marcia Williams captures the Great War through a child’s eyes with a fascinating fictional scrapbook including real mementos of the day.

Meet ten-year-old Archie, his family, and best friend in a scrapbook Archie has made himself, full of comic strips and plenty of other memorabilia....
The Daydreamer
AuthorIan McEwan
ISBN0099470713
Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his...
Kikker is een Held
AuthorMax Velthuijs
ISBN9025846742
Wanneer tijdens een overstroming al het voedsel op is, gaat Kikker er op uit om hulp te halen. Prentenboek met eenvoudige illustraties in kleur. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.

Het regent buiten en Kikker danst van plezier. Hij houdt van regen. Dit plezier vergaat hem snel wanneer de rivier overstroomt....
The Promise
AuthorNicola Davies
ISBN0763666335
An allegorical tale of hope takes on new life in this stirring, gorgeously illustrated story.

On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman, holding on with the strength of heroes, says the thief can’t have it without giving...
The Tunnel
AuthorAnthony Browne
ISBN0744552397
The illustrations are brilliant, and could easily tell most, if not all, of the story. There are so many different opportunities for this book. Be it grammatical features or picture analysis. It bridges the world of reality with that of fairy tales which in itself creates lots of writing opportunities....
John Patrick Norman McHennessy: The Boy Who Was Always Late
AuthorJohn Burningham
I can very well envision my 4-year-old self throwing this book to a corner of the room, screaming "what is this shit," and logging in to GoodReads to write a one-star review that goes "I can very well envision my 24-year-old self throwing this book to a corner of the room, screaming "what is this shit," and...
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