Moon Filly
10 best books like Moon Filly (Elyne Mitchell): The Tiger in the Well, Stonehenge, The Tin Princess, The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors, Rumble Fish, Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat, The Otterbury Incident, The Kingdom of Carbonel, Wild Animals I Have Known, The Nine Giants
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0679826718 |
Pullman is fast becoming a modern-day Dickens for young adults. The setting is the same, the strong eye for characters is there, as are the brooding atmosphere, the social conscience, and the ability to spin plot within plot.
Sally Lockhart is now a young woman, left alone with a toddler. Nothing...
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0060956852 |
Four thousand years ago, a stranger's death at the Old Temple of Ratharryn-and his ominous "gift" of gold-precipitates the building of what for centuries to come will be known as one of mankind's most singular and remarkable achievements. Bernard Cornwell's epic novel Stonehenge catapults us into...
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0439977797 |
Sally Lockhart's friend and partner-in-adventure Jim Taylor has just solved a mystery. For years he's been searching for Adelaide, the little girl enslaved by toothless crone Mrs Holland in The Ruby in the Smoke. And now he's found her - just as she's about to become a princess. Crown Princess of Razkavia,...
| Author | Roger Lancelyn Green |
| ISBN | 0140367454 |
"To the ancient Greeks the Siege of Troy was the greatest and most important event in the Age of the Heroes – that age of wonder when the Immortals who dwelt on Olympus and whom they worshiped as gods, mingled with mankind and took a visible part in their affairs.
The fall of Troy marks the place...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0440975344 |
Rusty-James is the toughest guy in the group of high-school kids who hang out and shoot pool down at Benny's, and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He wants to stay calm and laughing when things get dangerous, to be the toughest...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 0140311874 |
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy
“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
| Author | C. Day-Lewis |
| ISBN | 0435120018 |
“This is a really super story—I shold know, I wrote it. My name is George, and I’m Ted’s second-in-command: Ted is is centre-forward of the Junior XI at King’s School in Otterbury and a first class chap. He’s the leader of our company, and the story began with our battle against Toppy’s...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 0140304940 |
A long-awaited reissue of the much-loved sequel to Carbonel, King of the Cats. In this second story, published over forty years ago, Carbonel has been summoned to appear before the Great Cat but before he goes he has to find someone to look after his two royal kittens. And so he tracks down his young friends...
| Author | Ernest Thompson Seton |
| ISBN | 1599151812 |
I haven't reread these stories since when I was a little kid, and they make the same deep impression on me now as they did then. The stories aren't an easy reading, for, as the author warns in the very beginning, the lives of wild animals seldom end peacefully, and they are full of such love of the nature that...
| Author | Edward Marston |
| ISBN | 0312064268 |
"Marston's wit and vivid evocation of Elizabethan London's sights and smells provide a delightfully ribald backdrop for this clever series." -Publishers Weekly ., ."all the swashbuckling thrills and romantic swagger of the blood-and-thunder tragedies that are meat and drink to Westfield's Men."...
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0140348859 |
This book wasn't terrible, but definitely wasn't the best book I have ever read. I found myself wanting to know what would come next in this book. The book did have a good meaning and message directed towards mothers and daughters. However, this book seemed oddly specific and had too many details which...
