One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
10 best books like One for Sorrow, Two for Joy (Clive Woodall): The Crystal Prison, The Prophecy, The Dancing Bear, Thunder Oak, The Telling Pool, Whalesong, The Cry of the Wolf, The Fox Busters, A Calculus of Angels, Age of Reptiles Omnibus, Vol. 1
| Author | Robin Jarvis |
| ISBN | 1587171619 |
In this second installment in the Deptford Mice Trilogy, Audrey makes a deal with the mysterious Starwife that she will journey to the countryside, taking the mad rat Madam Akkikuyu with her, in exchange for the Starwife saving her friend Oswald’s life. The two of them set off with her brother Arthur...
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...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0006745113 |
I fancied something light to read last night, and as I love animals, I decided to select a paperback from one of my two Michael Morpurgo box sets.
This was a touching and emotional story about a little girl who rescues a malnourished bear cub and brings it into her village, where it becomes a large...
| Author | Garry Kilworth |
| ISBN | 0552545465 |
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...
| Author | David Clement-Davies |
| ISBN | 0810992574 |
David Clement-Davies's novel transports teen readers back to the days of Richard the Lionheart's medieval crusade. Young Rhodri Falcon and his Crusader father become entangled not only in a war of religious zealotry but also in the schemes of a seductive sorceress who literally steals men's hearts....
| Author | Robert Siegel |
| ISBN | 0062507982 |
Once upon a moonlit sea, a whale was born and began his song of his long and eventful journey through the great oceans.
Hruna’s voyage takes him to many things. Seals, dolphins and Ala the seagull all guide him on his travels and help him during times of great danger and great joy.
And...
| Author | Melvin Burgess |
| ISBN | 0688136257 |
I think everyone has that one book they read as a teenager that got them really into reading. "Cry of the Wolf" was mine.
I decided to read it again as I hadn't read it in over 10 years and I still love it. It's a great novella which focuses on the last wolves in England. The wolves don't communicate...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0140311750 |
Flightless, helpless and often, frankly, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged,...
| Author | Greg Keyes |
| ISBN | 0345406087 |
1722: A second Dark Age looms. An asteroid has devastated the Earth, called down by dire creatures who plot against the world of men. The brilliant-- some say mad--Isaac Newton has taken refuge in ancient Prague. There, with his young apprentice Ben Franklin, he plumbs the secrets of the aetheric beings...
| Author | Ricardo Delgado |
| ISBN | 1595826831 |
Forget the Silver Age, and bag the Golden Age - this is the Age of Reptiles! Ricardo Delgado, winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, and a prolific development and storyboard artist (Men in Black, The Incredibles, WALL-E, X-Men Origins, Wolverine, and The Matrix series)...
| Author | Patrick Jennings |
| ISBN | 0439395550 |
A family of werewolves faces the human evil of persecution in this tense and spellbinding novel from one of Scholastic Press' favorite authors.
Laszlo Emberek is caught between two worlds: the bucolic life of a shepherd, tending his family's small flock of sheep with his beloved dog, Gizi,...
| Author | Joan Marshall Grant |
| ISBN | 1585678864 |
As a child, the astonishing Joan Grant became aware of her uncanny "Far Memory," the ability to recall past incarnations who had lived in long-ago times and far-flung places. Her seven historical novels stand out for their vividness and rich detail. For Joan, these books were not works of the imagination...
| Author | Julia Golding |
| ISBN | 0761457259 |
A raid on a Viking village leaves 16-year-old Freydis seriously injured and her older brother Toki taken prisoner by the attacking pirates. When their father returns to what is left of the village, he gives Freydis an African slave, who is called Blue Man for his blue-black skin. Freydis and Blue Man...
| Author | Andreas Eschbach |
| ISBN | 3431039006 |
Wer hat das originale Jesus-Video gestohlen? Stephen Foxx war immer überzeugt, dass es Agenten des Vatikans gewesen sein müssen und dass der Überfall ein letzter Versuch war, damit ein unliebsames Dokument aus der Welt zu schaffen. Es ist schon fast zu spät, als er die Wahrheit erfährt: Tatsächlich...
Kapitán Kornelius Báthory, šermíř, rytíř a básník, už mnohokrát prokázal své vojenské kvality. Jako člověk však selhal, když po manželčině smrti zanevřel na svého syna a raději dal přednost vojenské kariéře. Dnes, kdy je Michalu Báthorymu dvanáct let, chce Kornel...
| Author | Thomas Wharton |
| ISBN | 1406312509 |
I am glad I found this book in my library. I thought it would just a be the usual fantasy story- a boy on a quest,etc,etc. But then I read the prologue of this book..Thomas Wharton is a great storyteller. The language is beautiful, the story is engaging, great characters, and the description is so detailed....
| Author | John Rickards |
| ISBN | 0141011270 |
They have the body of a slaughtered woman. They have a half-naked man standing over her. They have no idea how to make him talk.
And so they call in ex-FBI interrogator Alex Rourke to the traumatized Maine town of Winter's End. But as Rourke probes the mind of the enigmatic 'Nicholas', he is forced...
| Author | Brad Smith |
| ISBN | 1451678541 |
For Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields more than he bargained for when, while pulling up anchor, he hooks onto a mysterious steel cylinder. As word of Virgil’s strange catch spreads around the local marina, it draws the attention of a crooked city cop, who seizes both the cylinder...
| Author | Jean Reynolds Page |
| ISBN | 0061876941 |
A novel of how family happens—whether you like it or not
Elaine and Carson Forsyth have returned to the tree house—Elaine's childhood home, a cabin nestled high in the branches of two oaks beside a North Carolina lake—where forty-nine-year-old Carson has chosen to spend the waning...
| Author | Colin Broderick |
| ISBN | 0307453405 |
Few people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism—from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts—to tell the harrowing...
| Author | Ellen Renner |
| ISBN | 1408304465 |
I loved this book. Flat-out. I'm well above the age of the intended target audience but this story was still entertaining and provided a fantastic break to the almost repetition that YA books were attempting to clobber me with. (I have had enough of love triangles!!! Just kiss one, it's not that hard!)
This...
Eine riesige unterirdische Bibliothek, hallende Bücherschluchten, Geheimnisse in jedem Buch. Sam ist ein Dieb - aber mit einer List gelingt es ihm trotzdem, in die Palastwache von Mythia aufgenommen zu werden. Er träumt von einem neuen Leben, von großen Aufgaben. Vielleicht wird er gar als Wache...
| Author | Sigbjørn Mostue |
| ISBN | 8204125321 |
Nissedreperen er den gnistrende oppfølgeren til den prisbelønte "Gravbøygen våkner".
Mens julefreden er i ferd med å senke seg over byen, mottar Eva og Espen mystiske beskjeder fra en ukjent avsender. Samtidig blir det oppdaget et lik av en liten kropp som flyter i kloakken, og byens...
