Into the Labyrinth
10 best books like Into the Labyrinth (Roderick Townley): Cold River, The King in the Window, The Way of the Wilderking, Children of the Sea, Volume 5, Elizabeti's Doll, Dusssie, Basara, Vol. 10, The Dead Boy Detectives, Dream-of-Jade: The Emperor's Cat, The Tears of the Salamander
| Author | William Judson |
| ISBN | 0451166493 |
Learning to Share her Father
Judson's 1974 story deals with survival on two levels: a brutal winter in the frozen woods and the hot battle between step-siblings. Of course two kids have a better chance of making it on their own during the winter than just one, but not all the predators have four...
| Author | Adam Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0786838949 |
Oliver Parker is a ten-year-old American boy miserably trapped in Paris, where his father is stationed as a journalist. Intimidated by his French school and its prickly teachers, oppressed by gray and wintry Paris, and feeling curiously remote from his father-who spends more and more time staring...
| Author | Jonathan Rogers |
| ISBN | 0805431330 |
n book three of the acclaimed Wilderking Trilogy, civilizer Aidan returns home from three years in Feechiefen Swamp to discover that a party known as the Aidanites has arisen among his fellow Corenwalders. They believe the “Wilderking Chant” makes reference to Aidan, and that he is destined to...
| Author | Daisuke Igarashi |
| ISBN | 1421538482 |
Long-awaited conclusion to the critically acclaimed series!When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls...
| Author | Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen |
| ISBN | 1584300817 |
Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love, and names her Eva.
When Mama changes the new baby's diaper, Elizabeti changes Eva....
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0802796494 |
Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic--until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon--right out...
| Author | Yumi Tamura |
| ISBN | 1591166284 |
Synopsis:
Shipwrecked in Okinawa, Sarasa has met Doctor Basho, who has healed her eyes, and Shuri, who has fled a coup in Sanyo. Together, they must help stop a plot to kill Okinawa's president and protect the independent nation from invasion!
My Thoughts:
There's plenty...
| Author | Jill Thompson |
| ISBN | 1401203132 |
They'll do anything to solve the case.
Rowland and Paine, the dead British teenagers who first appeared in Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS, travel stateside to investigate a strange missing-persons case at a posh International Academy for Girls.
Naturally, the inquisitive...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0812627369 |
No ordinary man is permitted to see the great Kwan-Yu, emperor of China, but this doesn't stop the beautiful, green-eyed Dream-of-Jade, since she is not an ordinary man, but a rather unusual cat. When Dream-of-Jade decides she wants to see His Highness, she simply slips into the empty throne room and...
The Tears of the Salamander
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0440238234 |
Alfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the volcano. He is also an alchemist, able to make gold from...
| Author | Wesley King |
| ISBN | 0670070025 |
Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Duff in this funny, fast-paced tale of middle-school monsters, self-image, and, oh yeah, actual monsters that want to kill everyone.
Laura Ledwick is... well... large. The kids at school don't let her forget it, and call her by various...
Venus Love-me Chain!!!
ESSENTIAL TO ANY SAILOR VENUS FAN
This is the fifth and final one of five reference books published to tie-in with the premiere of Sailor Moon TV show in the US television.
I thought (and commented it in the previous books of this collection)...
This book, with illustrations, gathers some of J.R.R. Tolkien's least-known and hardest-to-find works in one volume. These include "Smith of Wootton Major (story of a magical gift concealed in the most amazing cake), "Farmer Giles of Ham" (a dragon terrorizing the English village of Ham and the townspeople...
| Author | Danai Kadzere |
| ISBN | 0985725060 |
King Winkle and Queen Periwinkle have a problem. They need a princess, and they need her fast. With the upcoming peace-keeping marriage between Prince Linus of Branninia and the princess of the fair Kingdom of Hoggenbottom, it's a bit risky to admit they don't have a princess.
Instead, they...
Power of the Heir's Passion
| Author | L.R.W. Lee |
| ISBN | 1503249204 |
Before the adventure, before perilous quests…the short tale of three royal ghosts.
In a land far away, there lived a prince who loved power. Carried away by his lust, he surrendered to its devices and usurped the throne from his older sister in an act of treachery.
Imogenia unexpectedly...
The Sea King's Daughter: A Russian Legend
Sadko the musician loved his city of Novgorod, the richest and most free in all Russia. With its great feasts, its white stone churches, its merchant visitors from many lands, Sadko felt there was no better place to be. Yet he was lonely too, for the rich young ladies who danced to his music would never favor...
When I was looking for Bed-knob and Broomstick to purchase, I came across this title by Mary Norton. The title grabbed my attention, but the illustrator, Brian Froud, made me want to buy the book. Visions of Labyrinth danced through my head -- hello, Goblin King!
So, of course, I bought the book....
Who is Marissa Moss anyway?
I’ve been making children’s books for a looooong time. I sent my first picture book to publishers when I was nine, but it wasn’t very good and they didn’t publish it. I didn’t try again until I was a grown-up and then it took five years of sending out stories,...
| Author | Simon Spurrier |
| ISBN | 1608869393 |
Ennay is a man without a god. Bud is a god without a human. Together, they might just survive.
In 1958, the laws of physics stopped working: ignition, electricity, and combustion. But an alternative was provided, and people found themselves each accompanied by their own personal god, the...
Delilah Dusticle and the Cursed Tempest
In this exciting instalment, Delilah Dusticle and the Dustbusters travel to the vibrant and mystical land of India. On arrival, they are tasked with a quest to overcome a powerful curse and save a life. It soon becomes clear that it is Delilah, who must find the strength and the power to defeat the curse....
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0060000651 |
The minute she had opened the trunk, she knew there wasn't anything like hope in it. Just awful musty things, but each one with a kind of terrible dark halo around it. She picked up that piece of old lace. She saw that stain -- pale, brownish in color. She knew it was blood. Somebody's blood. There was violence...
