Long May She Reign
10 best books like Long May She Reign (Ellen Emerson White): The Young Unicorns, Gender Queer, The Last Train to London, Passing Strange, The FitzOsbornes at War, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, The Demon's Lexicon, This Place Has No Atmosphere, The Four-Story Mistake, Welcome to Vietnam
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0440999197 |
My L'Engle reviews seem to have a theme: complaining noises followed by assertions why said complaints are meaningless in view of the whole, and a reference to love as the universal solvent. This book is no different.
I'm unable to keep from rolling my eyes when Rob, age 7, pipes up with a malapropism...
| Author | Maia Kobabe |
| ISBN | 1549304003 |
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...
The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and...
| Author | Ellen Klages |
| ISBN | 0765389517 |
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic”...
| Author | Michelle Cooper |
| ISBN | 0375970509 |
Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War.
Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe....
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064400980 |
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve—old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. They even find themselves acting in one! Best of all, they help a lonely new friend...
| Author | Sarah Rees Brennan |
| ISBN | 1416963790 |
Sixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy—she screams if Nick gets near her. She’s no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. The magicians want a charm that Nick’s mother...
This Place Has No Atmosphere
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406805 |
A gorgeous new package for Paula Danziger’s backlist with an introduction from Ann Martin!
In the year 2057 people live in malls, take classes in ESP, and get detention from robots. Fifteen-year-old Aurora loves everything about her life. She’s part of the coolest group of kids at school and...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0805070613 |
Following on from the first book, the Melendy family move from the city to the countryside to live in a house called The Four-Story Mistake. Some of the family were sad to leave New York but soon they all discover the space and the freedom and a whole new load of adventures.
We loved following the...
Oh, do I ever wish these books would be republished. It's a disadvantage in some ways to have started with
The Road Home
, as I was so completely won over by Mike, grouchy, maddening SOB as he was at times in that, that I couldn't see him as a just-met character. I also think it might be that there's a bit of...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689806574 |
From the moment she set eyes on the three Foster kids, Darcy knew being their baby-sitter would be no picnic. But the pay was twice her usual rate, and the job was only for a few hours a day - surely an experienced baby-sitter like her could handle it.
But Darcy hadn't counted on the mysterious things...
