Nightshade City

10 best books like Nightshade City (Hilary Wagner): The Dark Portal, The Owl Keeper, The Ever Breath, Echoes of Winter, Thunder Oak, Archvillain, Sam The Cat Detective, The Tygrine Cat, Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol, Dillweed's Revenge: A Deadly Dose of Magic

AuthorRobin Jarvis
ISBN1587171120
In the British tradition of Redwall comes this first novel of a trilogy that is sure to capture fans both young and old. In the sewers of Deptford, there lurks a dark presence that fills the tunnels with fear. The rats worship it in the blackness and name it "Jupiter, Lord of All." Into this twilight realm...
AuthorChristine Brodien-Jones
ISBN0385738145
Maxwell Unger has always loved the night. He used to do brave things like go tramping through the forest with his gran after dark. He loved the stories she told him about the world before the Destruction—about nature, and books, and the silver owls. His favorite story, though, was about the Owl Keeper.

According...
The Ever Breath
AuthorJulianna Baggott
ISBN0385737610
Twins Truman and Camille have been deserted by their father. Now their mother is leaving them for three weeks with their paternal grandmother Swelda, whom they’ve never met and only know from her disappointing gifts of soap and ChapStick. Things look up when Swelda turns out to be weird but cool. When...
Echoes of Winter
AuthorDominique Goodall
ISBN0983510814
A wolf. A destiny. And only one war to stand in his way.

When Convel leaves his birth pack, he didn’t expect to end up in a war against cougars. As he gathers his strength about him as well as new pack-mates, he is also confronted by Humans – once believed to be mostly dead.

He isn’t...
AuthorGarry Kilworth
ISBN0552545465
Long ago, long before Sylver the weasel was born, the humans all left Welkin. Now life for a weasel—under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rulers—is pretty miserable (unless you happen to be a weasel who likes living in a hovel and toiling all hours for the benefit of the stoats).

It's certainly...
Archvillain
AuthorBarry Lyga
ISBN0545196493
Critically acclaimed YA author Barry Lyga makes his Scholastic middle-grade debut with a superhero story turned on its head.

Kyle Camden knows exactly where he was the night Mighty Mike arrived: sneaking around the fallow field behind Bouring Middle School, preparing one of his most ingenious...
AuthorLinda Stewart
ISBN0967507340
There's a funny reason why I read this kids book as an adult.
I originally started reading this book when I was in elementary school, and I really liked it!
One night I had been reading in my bed, and set the book down on the floor before falling asleep.
That night I woke up sick to my stomach, and...
AuthorInbali Iserles
Feline lovers and fantasy fans will go for this high-suspense tale of a cat with ancient powers who must save a feral clan.

Alone and lost, a young cat called Mati is struggling to be accepted by a colony of street cats in the bustling marketplace at Cressida Lock. What Mati doesn’t know is that...
AuthorJim Krieg
ISBN1595142762
Griff Carver knows a thing or two about fighting crime.

No, he cannot be bought. He cannot be frightened. And he will not sleep until justice is served. Because Griff Carver is not just any kid--he's a kid with a badge. And if you are a rule breaker, he's your worst nightmare.

Griff might...
AuthorFlorence Parry Heide
ISBN0152063943
Dillweed’s parents go on adventures and leave him behind with Umblud the butler and Perfidia the maid, who treat him like their slave. Neither Umblud or Perfidia or the parents appreciate Dillweed’s cherished pet, a creature named Skorped. When they threaten Skorped’s life and well-being,...
AuthorJennifer A. Nielsen
ISBN1402240198
WARNING!As of today, there are only 7 CHILDREN who have ever read this book and lived to tell about it. 95 CHILDREN successfully read the first chapter, but upon beginning chapter 2, they started BLABBERING in some language known only as "flibberish." 38 CHILDREN made it halfway through this wretched...
The Emerald Tablet
AuthorP.J. Hoover
ISBN1933767138
What a fantastic debut novel! I really can’t wait to read the rest of this series. Atlantis has always been something I’ve found fascinating the whole basis of the mythology surrounding it... does it really exist, or is it a load of bull. I’ve read about it fictional literature and I have to say that...
AuthorKristin Clark Venuti
ISBN1606840061
The young Bellweathers–fourteen-year-old Spider, thirteen-year-old Ninda, and the ten-year-old triplets, Brick, Spike, and Sassy–and their equally peculiar parents have brought constant chaos to the once-peaceful village of Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay. Still, no one has suffered more than...
AuthorPamela Freeman
ISBN0316035629
Saker's ghost army is slaughtering those of the new blood, fueled by an ancient wrong. But while he'd thought revenge would be simple, he's now plagued by voices foreshadowing a calamity beyond his comprehension.

Ash and Bramble raise the warrior spirit of Acton, mighty in life and powerful...
The Ghost in the Crystal
AuthorMatt Posner
ISBN1456325922
Your NEW favorite magic school is New York City's School of the Ages. I am a mixed-race teen from Queens, New York, and when I answer an advertisement in a magazine, the South Wind shows up at my door to introduce me to a world of adventure, power, and tragedy that feels both strange and right: ghosts, elementals,...
Quest for Merlin's Map
AuthorW.C. Peever
ISBN0984117555
Charlie is an awkward twelve-year old living a normal life till he is abducted and thrust into a world of ever-looming danger, a world of Magic, of Angry Gods, and Creatures that are should only exist inside of fairytales. 

Charlie and his three friends must unravel the mysteries of their new...
AuthorPhilip Reeve
ISBN1407114832
A dragon story with a brilliant twist from multi award-winning writer, PHILIP REEVE. Ansel's new master slays dragons for a living. He says he's hunted the monstrous worms all over Christendom and has the scars to prove it. But is Brock just a clever trickster in shining armour? Ansel is sure there are...
Witch Avenue Series
AuthorKarice Bolton
All four books in the Amazon Bestselling Witch Avenue Series are now available in one complete set! And don't miss out on a few bonus scenes at the end of the collection.

This edition includes: Lonely Souls, Altered Souls, Released Souls, and Shattered Souls

Lonely Souls (Witch Avenue...
Eon's Door
AuthorJ.G. McKenney
ISBN0987682318
The Dark Forest is moving and a horde of bloodthirsty monsters is on the hunt. For the peaceful denizens of Erla, time is running out.

Two thousand years after three clans flee the world of humans through Eon's Door to find sanctuary in a realm called Erla, a prophecy left to them by the ancient...
AuthorLois Lowry
ISBN0547390092
A church mouse is no ordinary mouse, and Hildegarde—the Mouse Mistress of Saint Bartholemew’s—is no ordinary mouse leader. It falls to her to keep all the church mice safe and out of sight.

But when a few parishioners report mouse sightings, Hildegarde and the rest of the church mice...
AuthorKimberley Griffiths Little
ISBN0545165598
Critically acclaimed author Kimberley Griffiths Little brings to life a sweeping and heartfelt story set against the lush backdrop of the bayou.
Twelve-year-old Livie is living with a secret and it's crushing her. She knows she is responsible for her mother's coma, but she can't tell anyone....
AuthorKailin Gow
ISBN1597489727
"What do you learn here...at the Academy?" Wirt asks. "Magic? The responsibility to use your powers responsibly?" "Uh...something like that," his roommate Spencer said. "More like how to rule worlds." Wirt, is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude...
Don't Know Where, Don't Know When
AuthorAnnette Laing
ISBN0979476941
What a nightmare.
Hannah Dias, California Girl with Attitude, and Alex, her laid-back brother, have moved from exciting San Francisco to boring Snipesville, Georgia. Life doesn't improve when they meet Brandon, a dorky kid who is plotting his escape from the Deep South, and the weird Professor,...
Island of Fog
AuthorKeith Robinson
A fantasy novel for readers 9 years and up, but suitable for all ages. Atmospheric and mysterious, ISLAND OF FOG is the story of eight children living in a dismal, perpetually foggy community on an island just off the north east coast of America.

Increasing curiosity leads these 12-year-olds...
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