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10 best books like Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight (Katherine Paterson): The Professor, Rapunzel's Revenge, The Austen Escape, The Secret of the Old Clock, The Girl from Everywhere, The Last, Calamity Jack, To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, Mouse Bird Snake Wolf

The Professor
AuthorCharlotte Brontë
ISBN1582870950
The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual...
Rapunzel's Revenge
AuthorShannon Hale
Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother.

Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall.

And...
The Austen Escape
AuthorKatherine Reay
ISBN0718078098
After years of following her best friend’s lead, Mary Davies finds a whimsical trip back to Austen’s Regency England paves the way towards a new future.

Mary Davies lives and works in Austin, Texas, as an industrial engineer. She has an orderly and productive life, a job and colleagues...
The Secret of the Old Clock
AuthorCarolyn Keene
ISBN1557091552
Nancy, unaided, seeks to find a missing will. To the surprise of many, the Topham family will inherit wealthy Josiah Crowley's fortune, instead of deserving relatives and friends who were promised inheritances. Nancy determines that a clue to a second will might be found in an old clock Mr. Crowley...
The Girl from Everywhere
AuthorHeidi Heilig
ISBN0062380753
Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.

As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights,...
The Last
AuthorKatherine Applegate
Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra.

After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So...
Calamity Jack
AuthorShannon Hale
ISBN1599900769
Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind...with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying...
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
AuthorSiena Cherson Siegel
ISBN0689867476
The Sibert Honor–winning graphic memoir about the dreams and realities of becoming a ballerina.

Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six—and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico,...
The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man
AuthorLloyd Alexander
ISBN0440405807
Ladies and gentlemen of the Goodreads jury. Don't let the fact that this book is cutesy-covered, middle-size fonted, and 100 pages thin fool you: This is NOT A BOOK FOR (JUST) KIDS. How do I know that? I submit as evidence: me. I read this randomly when I was a youngun and loved it. Years later, as a less-youngun,...
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf
AuthorDavid Almond
ISBN0763659126
The imagination of three children takes on unexpected life in a creation tale from the dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean.

The gods have created a world that is safe and calm and rather wonderful. They have built mountains, forests, and seas and filled the world with animals, people,...
The Toothpaste Millionaire
AuthorJean Merrill
ISBN0618759255
Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a step-by-step production plan with help from his good friend Kate MacKinstrey. By the time he...
The Planet of the Wind
AuthorGuillaume Dorison
"The Little Prince" is one of my favorite books but this is just bad. I love the characters in the original story because they are simple and thought-provoking. In this adaptation (which is apparently based on a TV show) the characters have become sarcastic and cheesy. The fox is cute and the art is pretty...
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