Olivia Kidney
10 best books like Olivia Kidney (Ellen Potter): Into the Woods, Dragon's Breath, The Homeward Bounders, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, The Great Good Thing, Stumptown Kid, Ghost of a Hanged Man, Thora: A Half-Mermaid Tale, Stealing Magic, The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
Storm, Aurora, and Anything Eden live in a decaying mansion on the edge of the wilds with their erstwhile father and indolent mother. When an accident leaves them orphaned and at the mercy of the sinister Dr. DeWilde, these three courageous and eccentric sisters are forced to flee into the woods, where...
| Author | E.D. Baker |
| ISBN | 1582346666 |
Emma and Eadric have no sooner turned back into humans (from being frogs) than Emma's mother is in a panic, Aunt Grassina is distracted because she's found her true love turned into an otter, and Emma's magic is so out of control she sends herself to the dungeon by mistake. The neighboring kingdom has chosen...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0749702818 |
"You are now a discard. We have no further use for you in play. You are free to walk the Bounds, but it will be against the rules for you to enter play in any world. If you succeed in returning Home, then you may enter play again in the normal manner."
When Jamie unwittingly discovers the sinister,...
| Author | Jean Lee Latham |
| ISBN | 0618250743 |
Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings...
| Author | Roderick Townley |
| ISBN | 0689837143 |
Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.
Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in...
| Author | Carol Gorman |
| ISBN | 1561454125 |
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.
When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0761451544 |
Ghost of a Hanged Man: Vivian Vande Velde
Hook: What got me really interested in the book was the cover of the book: I really enjoy horror books, so seeing the cover got me really intrigued into reading it, especially since it involved a man who turned into a ghost.
Summary: There was a...
| Author | Gillian Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060743786 |
Thora's no ordinary girl. She's got scales on her legs, purple feet, and a blowhole that squirts water from the top of her head. Thora's a half-mermaid. And as mermaid law commands, Thora must spend ten years at sea and ten years on land. In a houseboat called the Loki, Thora sails the seas with her mermaid...
| Author | Marianne Malone |
| ISBN | 0375868194 |
Ruthie and Jack thought that their adventures in the Thorne Rooms were over . . . until miniatures from the rooms start to disappear. Is it the work of the art thief who's on the loose in Chicago? Or has someone else discovered the secret of the Thorne Rooms' magic? Ruthie and Jack's quest to stop the thief...
| Author | Elise Primavera |
| ISBN | 0060569468 |
For seven years, bad luck has followed Ivy around like a dog on a leash. Her father disappeared, her mother is a washed-up beauty-pageant winner, and now Ivy and her mother have moved into a ramshackle house on Gumm Street. Ivy's new neighbors--bookish Pru, stuck-up Cat, and wannabe adventurer Franny--are...
