Mennyms Alive
10 best books like Mennyms Alive (Sylvia Waugh): Jersey Tomatoes are the Best, Long Live the Queen, The Eye of Night, The Princess in the Pigpen, This Place Has No Atmosphere, Frances's Story, Minnow on the Say, Good-Bye Pink Pig, The Magic Summer, Midnight Hour Encores
| Author | Maria Padian |
| ISBN | 0375865799 |
This is a hilarious and heartbreaking story of two teen girls and the summer when everything changes for them. Both Henry and Eva are New Jersey natives and excellent athletes: Henry's a master on the tennis court and Eva is a graceful ballerina. When opportunity knocks for both of them the summer before...
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 1930709269 |
Life in the White House had been hard for seventeen-year-old Meghan Powers-the endless publicity, the suffocating presence of the Secret Service, and the horror of seeing her own mother almost assassinated. But now, at the end of her senior year, things are getting back to normal. She's getting ready...
| Author | Pauline J. Alama |
| ISBN | 0553584634 |
From Pauline J. Alama comes a stirring fantasy tale of three vagabonds in a dying world and their terrifying quest into the heart of darkness...
The Eye Of Night
It is a magical world on the verge of collapse. In the North the Troubles rage. Cities and kings are being annihilated; the...
| Author | Jane Resh Thomas |
| ISBN | 0395515874 |
I'm not eight. But I liked this book anyway.
This is one of those books that is short enough and easy enough for younger children, but still has some meat on it and some history thrown in, without being preachy. I'm starting to detest all those little fairy books and unicorn books, so this books came...
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 | Ruth Elwin Harris |
| ISBN | 0763617040 |
I do enjoy this author's style and bright characters! She lets you see beyond what the characters say, and into what they feel. That said, I liked Sarah's Story better, mainly because of the kind of person Sarah was. Frances is very different from her sisters. She lives in her own world made of paint and...
| Author | Philippa Pearce |
| ISBN | 0140310223 |
David can't believe his luck when a worn wooden canoe mysteriously appears on the banks of the River Say behind his house. With summer stretching endlessly before him, it seems too good to be true.Soon there is another boy--Adam, the Minnow's rightful owner. Adam wants his boat back...but something...
| Author | C.S. Adler |
| ISBN | 0380701758 |
Ten-year-old Amanda is small, quiet and colorless. She knows that she's a disappointment to her elegant, ambitious mother who focuses all her attention on Amanda's charming older brother, Dale. Her mother is obsessed with getting Dale into an Ivy League college, although Dale protests that neither...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0394816315 |
Four children are sent from London to live for the summer with an eccentric poetry quoting Aunt in a rural part of Ireland. They are left to fend for themselves and in the process find friendship and enjoyment in day to day tasks. The children find that there are things to gain from their self sufficient...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064470210 |
On the Road
Sibilance T. Spooner thinks she's one of the world's more promising cellists. The world thinks so too. Given up by her mother on the day she was born, she believes she has almost raised herself--with just a bit of guidance from her unconventional father, Taxi. When Sib finally asks...
When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding GBP10 a month. So she enlists the help of her sisters - Phoebe, Naomi and Rachel - who are only too eager to dream up hare-brained fund-raising schemes. Undisciplined baby-sitters, unhygienic...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0152735348 |
This was my favorite book while growing up. I adored the two sets of Starbuck twins and wanted to be telepathic more than anything. I probably read this book 20 times, over the years, and wrote to the author a few times (she responded with answers to all of my questions!).
This one takes place in...
| Author | Gillian Cross |
| ISBN | 0140323120 |
Three and a half stars from me!
The Prime Minister's Brain, first published in 1985 by Puffin Books is another of our Kid-Lit books with a bit of history behind it. It's the follow up to The Demon Headmaster which Chrissi and I reviewed in our Kid Lit challenge last year and was also one of our favourite...
This book is one of the literature component for secondary school in Malaysia. Although I'm not using it in my school, at least as a teacher I should know the story. Therefore, I read it. In my opinion, this novel aren't not the best among those novels assingn for form 5 but it wasn't the worst. Its quite interesting...
| Author | Paula Volsky |
| ISBN | 0553575813 |
In a land pockmarked with the grim relics of a long-ago war live a people consumed by the fear of magic. Those suspected of sorcery die at the hands of the infamous White Tribunal. And death and terror will reign until a young man pawns his soul for the temporary power to destroy his murdered father's false...
| Author | George Hagen |
| ISBN | 0340752068 |
Tom Bedlam was published about six years ago and I never see it anywhere any more which I think is a real shame because I absolutely loved it. I read it the year that I studied the Development of the Novel module at university and it was fascinating to read this modern celebration of that journey. Although...
