Never Trust a Dead Man
10 best books like Never Trust a Dead Man (Vivian Vande Velde): The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight, The Prophecy, The Heavenward Path, The Adventures of Blue Avenger, The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story, How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, Power Of Un, Flip, Crime Files: Four-Minute Forensic Mysteries: Body of Evidence, Switching Well
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0618737480 |
Meet thirteen-year-old Sarah, who has been living on her own and searching for the knight who was responsible for her mother’s death. Her quest for revenge leads to an even greater adventure when she witnesses Queen Guinevere being kidnapped. Soon Sarah finds herself accompanying Sir Gawain and...
Can a bard, a sword, a unicorn-and a hopeless prince-save a kingdom? Fourteen-year-old Prince Perryn is teased for loving books more than swords. But Perryn's books are his best weapons to stop the dragon that is destroying his kingdom-and his one hope of earning his father's respect. When he unearths...
Mitsuko is being haunted by ghosts and bad luck. An angry spirit commands her to keep a forgotten promise and assigns her a series of impossible tasks. She turns to the mischievous shape-shifter Goranu for help. Together they journey through a landscape of Japanese myths and legends made real. This...
| Author | Norma Howe |
| ISBN | 0064472256 |
On his sixteenth birthday, David Schumacher changes his name to Blue Avenger. . .
And things start to happen. Within twenty-four hours, David becomes a national hero, starts dating an extraordinary girl named Omaha Nebraska Brown, and bakes an imperfect pie. And that's not all. A tiny sow...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061345032 |
When Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm—three hundred years in the past! Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone, Buddy washes up in New England, where his plucky ancestor,...
| Author | Sara Nickerson |
| ISBN | 0064410277 |
You know how it is when you stumble across a book you've never heard of by an author you've never heard of and you start to read and can't put the book down....?
Well this is one of those books. Sophie and Margaret are two lonely sisters living a strange half life with a severely depressed mother who most...
| Author | Nancy Etchemendy |
| ISBN | 0439313317 |
This fascinating, approachable, and critically-acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy story is blessed with an intelligent and likeable character. The Power of Un was the winnter of the 2000 Bram Stoker Award.
Until a week ago, Gib Finney was just a regular guy, shooting spitballs and messing up his...
| Author | David Lubar |
| ISBN | 0765340488 |
Ryan and his twin sister Taylor are just the opposite. Taylor excels at everything and is always #1. Ryan fails at everything. Then Ryan find some alien disks and discovers he can become--for a little while--people from history.
As with most middle-school books, the parents are pretty lame,...
| Author | Jeremy Brown |
| ISBN | 0439769345 |
An updated version of Donold Sobol's TWO-MINUTE MYSTERIES, investigated by a CSI using modern forensic techniques rather than old-fashioned sleuthing.
Four-minute forensic mysteries are solved by a cast of quirky but lovable characters. Their wisecracking leader is CSI Wes Burton who...
| Author | Peni R. Griffin |
| ISBN | 0780748204 |
The two of them live in the same town--Amber in 1991, and Ada in 1891--and they both have real problems. Amber's parents are getting divorced, and she seems to be the last to know. Ada's father doesn't think women have minds of their own. So the two troubled girls hit on the same solution: they each go to the...
| Author | Nicola Morgan |
| ISBN | 0763634727 |
"The novel gallops along at a cracking pace, packed full of plot twisters." — THE HERALD (UK)
"I felt cold metal on the side of my skull before I heard the voice. I knew at once what it was. A pistol. Resting on the bone just behind my ear. The favorite place for murderers, robbers, highwaymen —...
| Author | Richard Harland |
| ISBN | 1743310056 |
Seventeen-year-old Astor thinks she is about the wed the handsome plutocrat Lorrain Swale. But, to her horror, her mother and step-father abandon her, and she finds herself a lowly governess in the Swale household. Treated with contempt by the whole family, Astor is determined to escape. Help arrives...
When Sophie falls asleep wearing a locket that belonged to her grandmother's great grandmother, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about the mysterious Charlotte Mackenzie.
Charlotte and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty Scottish island. Then disaster...
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0207200823 |
This one was given 5 stars by my kids. We listened to the audio and I was told every time "don't turn it off" and "don't listen to any until you pick us up again!" They loved it and didn't want to miss any. The number of times we stayed parked in the driveway to finish off a section..... A great historical fiction...
| Author | Alma Alexander |
| ISBN | 0060839619 |
This year at the Wandless Academy feels all wrong to Thea. Her best friend, Magpie, will barely give her the time of day. Ben's been moody and dismissive. Since when did Tess have a boyfriend? And why is Humphrey May, agent for the Federal Bureau of Magic, lurking around the Academy?
Thea is out...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1863301135 |
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On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
| Author | Ann Halam |
| ISBN | 0553494147 |
When Sloe was tiny, her Papa disappeared and she and her mama went to live in a prison camp in the snowy north, in a time and place when there are no more wild animals. Mama’s crime: teaching science, and her dedication to the hope that the lost animal species can be reborn. To Sloe, Mama’s secret work...
| Author | Cassandra Golds |
| ISBN | 1935279130 |
This is one of those books that is impossible to categorize. Although it at first seems meant for children, as Heloise is clearly a child, some of the almost spiritual or metaphysical themes of the story would fly way over a child's head - and as Heloise grows older, so do these themes rise to the forefront...
The Ghost of Cutler Creek
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374400040 |
The third book about Allie Nichols, "ghost magnet"
Allie Nichols has hardly laid the last spirit to rest when she's sure that another one is trying to reach her. But how can Allie help a ghost who won't speak? All she has to go on is a sound -- a sort of whine -- and a smell. At the same time, a strange...
| Author | Philip Caveney |
| ISBN | 0370329171 |
Sebastian, Max and Cornelius are ready for another adventure and heading to the bustling port of Ramalat. Once there they intend to embark on a perilous sea journey in search of the fabled lost treasure of the pirate King, Captain Calinestra. But first, they must make it through the dark and mysterious...
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1584850906 |
It's 1865. Near the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie Willis learns that her brother Jacob has been killed while fighting in the Confederate army. Torn by grief, she runs to the secret thicket in the piney woods that she and Jacob loved -- and stumbles smack into the hideout of a crazed deserter....
| Author | Angela Johnson |
| ISBN | 0142402842 |
Born with a rare and dangerous allergy to sunlight, Lila's spent her life hidden from the daylight-staying covered up and indoors until dark, only venturing outside after the sun has set and the moon's cool light shines. Almost every night, she is visited by two young girls who wear tutus over their jeans...
