Into the Wild
10 best books like Into the Wild (Sarah Beth Durst): Bright Young Things, Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, The Yearling, Once Upon a Marigold, Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades, What the Moon Saw, A Beautiful Curse, 赤髪の白雪姫 1 [Akagami no Shirayukihime 1], After, A Little Mermaid
The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: Flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.
Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty...
Author | Jessica Day George |
ISBN | 1599901099 |
"Blessed" or "cursed" with an ability to understand animals, the Lass (as she's known to her family) has always been an oddball. And when an isbjorn (polar bear) seeks her out, and promises that her family will become rich if only the Lass will accompany him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the...
Author | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
ISBN | 0689846231 |
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his...
Author | Jean Ferris |
ISBN | 0152050841 |
This is the cutest book in the entire world. You kind of just want to hug it and squeeze it and call it George, because it's just that damned cute.
The subtitle is "part comedy, part love story, part everything-but-the-kitchen sink," and that's pretty accurate. I got a bit of a Princess Bride type...
Author | Rick Riordan |
ISBN | 0955944686 |
After I finished The Son of Neptune, my last obsession has been Percy Jackson. And I crave for more of him. So when I saw this one, I didn't waste time.
The Sword of Hades was a short read, as it is intended to be a short story. It's not nearly as thrilling as the others in the first and second series....
Author | Laura Resau |
ISBN | 0385733437 |
Clara Luna's name means "clear moon" in Spanish. But lately, her head has felt anything but clear. One day a letter comes from Mexico, written in Spanish: Dear Clara, We invite you to our house for the summer. We will wait for you on the day of the full moon, in June, at the Oaxaca airport. Love, your grandparents....
Follow your heart…
But you might just end up snacking on flies.
When a bumbling fairy godfather gifts a humble woodcutter’s fourth child with extraordinary beauty, she spends the next eighteen years trying to hide it—behind a book. Now, Elisette is ready to follow her dreams and...
赤髪の白雪姫 1 [Akagami no Shirayukihime 1]
Author | Sorata Akizuki |
ISBN | 4592183738 |
"Red-haired Snow White" ("Akagami no Shirayukihime") will appeal to a very particular group of readers, only.
This series is 100% innocent and pure, peaceful and calm. Despite the fantasy fairy tale middle age-ish setting, the main genre of it is without argument Slice-of-Life. It is episodic...
Lacey's world shatters when her dad is killed in a car accident. And secretly? She feels like it’s her fault. If she hadn’t taken her own sweet time getting ready that morning . . . well, it never would have happened. Her mom wouldn’t be a basket case. Her brother Logan wouldn’t drink. And her little...
All Clio wants is to make her crush—a fellow merman prince—notice her. She isn’t interested in the people on land, much less a certain Prince Lukas, who was stupid enough to fall off a ship on his birthday. But when a bumbling fairy godfather misunderstands her, Clio finds herself in the worst situation...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross
Author | Jeff Lemire |
ISBN | 1534313443 |
The hot horror series that WIRED magazine named one of the best books of 2018 returns from the creative team that BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS said "will go down as one of the greatest comic teams of all time!"
After the mind-blowing events of the second arc, our story heads right through the looking glass....