Lionboy
10 best books like Lionboy (Zizou Corder): The Way of the Wilderking, Winter Door, A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography, Shadows in the Twilight, Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles, Voices in the Dark, Corydon and the Island of Monsters, The Jumbee, Samurai, Monster Republic
| 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 | Isobelle Carmody |
| ISBN | 0375830189 |
In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about looking after her. The school bully, Logan, is increasingly...
| Author | Jeff Corwin |
| ISBN | 0142414034 |
A fascinating look at the real Jeff Corwin!
From growing up in an urban community near Boston, to falling in love with snakes, to traveling to exotic places, to becoming a beloved Emmy Award-winning television host of Animal Planet, this authorized biography will give readers a first-hand...
| Author | Henning Mankell |
| ISBN | 0385734964 |
Reviewed by Christina Tsichlis for TeensReadToo.com
SHADOWS IN THE TWILIGHT by Henning Mankell is written using the distinctive voice of the main character, Joel. This is a companion book to A BRIDGE TO THE STARS.
This is a story that asks philosophical questions and does it in a way...
| Author | Sabine Durrant |
| ISBN | 0060854790 |
Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life.
Connie's first order of...
| Author | Catherine Banner |
| ISBN | 0375838775 |
Asking for the truth can be as painful as telling it. . . .
Anselm Andros has clearly defined roles in his family and they are roles he plays very well—he is confidante to his mother, Maria. He is the confessor to his stepfather, Leo, a man haunted by the secrets of his past. And Anselm is also the...
A young shepherd, Corydon, is driven out of his village because of his unusual appearance and then captured and put on display as a monster. Alongside him in the traveling freak show are Medusa, the Minotaur, the Sphinx, and other classical beasts. When Corydon helps these monsters to escape their cages,...
| Author | Pamela Keyes |
| ISBN | 0803733135 |
When Esti Legard starts theater school on Cariba, she's determined to step out of the shadow of her late father, a famous Shakespearean actor. But on an island rife with superstition, Esti can't escape the darkness. In the black of the theater, an alluring phantom voice-known only as Alan-becomes her...
| Author | Jason Hightman |
| ISBN | 0060540168 |
Dragons. They masquerade as their victims, unrecognizable to all but a select few. In the West, Simon St. George and his father are the last living descendants of a legendary clan of dragon hunters. In the Far East, fierce Samurai warriors are bound by an oath to defeat the dragons. Now, faced with an apocalyptic...
An explosion in a nuclear power plant.
Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants.
A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction.
"No," whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. "That's not me....
| Author | Gillian Summers |
| ISBN | 0738714119 |
Now that she has (sort of) defeated a diabolical elf, Keelie Heartwood reluctantly joins her father in the Dread Forest. Her "real" friends are gone, her dad is preoccupied with his new responsibilities as Lord of the Forest and now it seems that her budding romance with the hunky Sean is dashed. Except...
| Author | Matthew Skelton |
| ISBN | 0141320370 |
I had to dive into the children’s section of my library to get this one. I haven’t been in there for ages. There were short people around! And all the shelves are much shorter! Still, it was worth it. The Story of Cirrus Flux is an interesting attempt to set a children’s adventure novel in Georgian...
| Author | Andy McNab |
| ISBN | 0399244654 |
A series of high-profile suicide bombings are devastating London and frustrating British Intelligence. But that doesn't matter to seventeen-year-old Danny Watts and his former SAS hero grandfather, Fergus, who are living undercover in southern Spain, knowing that the slightest slip could expose...
Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3
| Author | P.J. Haarsma |
| ISBN | 0763627119 |
Hang on to your transport! Wormhole pirates close in on JT and his friends in part three of the cyber-fueled sci-fi adventure.
It’s not a good sign: before Johnny Turnbull and his fellow knudniks even land on Orbis 3, a band of wormhole pirates invades their shuttle and deliver a cryptic threat...
| Author | Anita Heiss |
| ISBN | 1865043613 |
Part of the "My Story" series. Set in Sydney, 1937, this is the fictional diary of a young Aboriginal girl, a member of the Stolen Generation.
She is given the diary by the Sister in charge of Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home and through its pages she describes her life - from her arrival there,...
| Author | Jude Watson |
| ISBN | 0439681421 |
Bullet Review:
I'm being generous with this rating. I finished it easily in a not quite 2 hr flight and yet I still struggled and forced myself to read this.
I don't exactly blame the author; much of it is that I am far too old to be the target audience.
There are things that drive...
| Author | Tom Kuntz |
| ISBN | 0812932765 |
An American Icon Under Government Surveillance
When Frank Sinatra died in 1998, he was one of the most chronicled celebrities ever, but the most unusual record of his life came to light only posthumously: a 1,275-page dossier recording decades of FBI surveillance stemming from J. Edgar Hoover's...
| Author | Nancy Richardson Fischer |
| ISBN | 0425169553 |
This is the book where we finally learn what happened to Tahiri's parents and how she came to be adopted by a tribe of Sand People. Part of the agreement when Tahiri went to Yavin 4 to learn to be a Jedi was that she would come back to Tatooine to find out about her family and then make an informed decision about...
| Author | Tony Pollard |
| ISBN | 0718154037 |
London, 1857—the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most unconventional minds in Victorian Britain—including Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel—are members of this illustrious brotherhood. Their meetings take place behind closed doors, their discussions are...
