Marco Polo
10 best books like Marco Polo (Demi): Ash and Quill, Wunderland, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, The Worst Witch, Pink and Say, The Reluctant Dragon, Kill the Queen, The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man
| Author | Rachel Caine |
| ISBN | 0451472411 |
Words can kill.
Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealously guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny…
Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in Philadelphia,...
| Author | Jennifer Cody Epstein |
| ISBN | 0525576908 |
East Village, 1989
Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247722 |
The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247781 |
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is an original classic by Beatrix Potter.
Poor Jemima. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688162940 |
William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.
Drama...
| Author | Jill Murphy |
| ISBN | 0141319623 |
This is the perfect book for young reluctant readers.
It’s engaging, fun, fast-paced and actually a really great story. There’s a magic school, great friendship, antiheroes and a series of unfortunate events.
And let’s not forget the lovely illustrations. This is no Harry...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399226710 |
3.5 stars. Such a sad story. As you might expect from a Patricia Polacco book, this is uplifting and gives you hope in human nature and it is heartbreakingly sad and makes you despair too.
The American Civil war is something I know very little about, this gives you a taste of what it was like for young...
In this beloved classic story, a young boy befriends a poetry-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. When the town-folk send for St. George to slay the dragon, the boy needs to come up with a clever plan to save his friend and convince the townsfolk to accept him. This story first appeared as a...
Gladiator meets Game of Thrones: a royal woman becomes a skilled warrior to destroy her murderous cousin, avenge her family, and save her kingdom in this first entry in a dazzling fantasy epic from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Assassin series—an enthralling...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0440405807 |
Ladies and gentlemen of the Goodreads jury. Don't let the fact that this book is cutesy-covered, middle-size fonted, and 100 pages thin fool you: This is NOT A BOOK FOR (JUST) KIDS. How do I know that? I submit as evidence: me. I read this randomly when I was a youngun and loved it. Years later, as a less-youngun,...
Gershon was not always the best person he could be. True, the mistakes he made were common, ordinary things: a broken promise, a temper lost for no reason, a little untruth told here and there. But unlike most people, Gershon never regretted what he did. He never apologized or asked anyone's forgiveness....
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380307 |
Okay, Leif the Lucky might've topped Benjamin Franklin. The contest was a close one. It's the d'Aulaires' world, I'm just living in it.
We haven't yet read every work by the d'Aulaires. But their works on Leif Erikson and the Norse Gods show they have a passion for Norwegian mythology, history,...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698116380 |
The first chapter very briefly describes the history of exploration before Prince Henry of Portugal financed expeditions to sail down the west coast of Africa. He was angling for a trade route to Asia that Portugal could control and profit from. Progress was slow, but as the title informs you, it set...
