Perloo The Bold
10 best books like Perloo The Bold (Avi): Bandit's Moon, Urchin and the Raven War, Sunwing, The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, Pigs Might Fly, Scruffy, Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat, The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London, Star in the Storm, The Story of Eli Whitney
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0440415861 |
After a narrow escape from the nasty O. O. Mary's clutches, Annyrose ventures forth to find her long-lost brother Lank in gold-digging territory. But the journey is rough, bandits and fiends waiting for the traveler at every bend. Soon Annyrose runs into Joaquin Murieta, legendary bandit of the Gold...
| Author | M.I. McAllister |
| ISBN | 1423101839 |
After his last adventures, Urchin of the Riding Stars has taken his place as a trusted member of the Circle in King Crispin's court. Life on the island is back to normal, with little Princess Catkin growing up and testing everyone's patience in the process.
But daily life is disrupted when Lord Arcneck...
Kenneth Oppel gives a bat's-eye view of the horrors of animal testing in Sunwing, the sequel to his popular and award-winning novel for middle readers, Silverwing. Shade, the lost baby bat of the first book, has rejoined his colony only to lose his freedom as the bats plunge into a mysterious human building...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0440405807 |
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,...
Daggie Dogfoot, the runt of the litter, is in danger. The pigman, who takes all runts from their pens, is coming for him! But Daggie is a pig of remarkable qualities, and he's not about to let the Pigman get him. Instead, he runs away and decides to learn how to fly. But when he tries leaping off a cliff, he discovers...
| Author | Jack Stoneley |
| ISBN | 0671410962 |
Life began in hardship for Scruffy, carried to survival by her mother from a fire in a condemned building, only to be orphaned by a sheepherder's rifle. Soon she is rescued and nursed back to health by some merciful children but leaves them to make her way back to the city. A kindly street performer takes...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 0140311874 |
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy
“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
| Author | Elvira Woodruff |
| ISBN | 0439281342 |
Best-selling author Elvira Woodruff's thrilling novel set in 1700s London. Now in paperback!
It's 1735. Forrest Harper's life inside the Tower of London consists of three ways to pass the time: chores, chores, and more chores. His only friends are the spirited ravens he tends with his father....
| Author | Joan Hiatt Harlow |
| ISBN | 1416905308 |
A RISKY SECRET! All non-sheepherding dogs have been outlawed from the rocky coastal village where Maggie lives. Unwilling to give up her beloved Newfoundland, Sirius, Maggie defies the law and hides Sirius away.
But when a steamer crashes into the rocks during a violent storm and starts to...
| Author | Jean Lee Latham |
| ISBN | 1887840427 |
I read this non-fiction biography aloud to my children.
I have to admit that I had never heard of Eli Whitney before I picked up this book! His invention, the "cotton 'gin" built in 1793, was the first of its kind to separate the seeds from the cotton bolls. Until that time, cotton was not a popular...
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0486293769 |
Something is definitely wrong with Peter Rabbit . . . he has no appetite! Deciding he is terribly lonely, Peter sets off to visit some friends in the Old Pasture but instead finds himself narrowly escaping the clutches of Hooty Owl, experiencing a nasty encounter with Jed Thumper (a big gray rabbit) and...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 0763626171 |
"Children will come away thinking they have heard something quite profound about love, fear, and hope for the future."
- Booklist (starred review)
Eddie Beckey makes lists for just about everything and everyone in her life. And for matters of real importance, she wears (and snaps) an...
| Author | Natalie Babbitt |
| ISBN | 0374442606 |
From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep, he senses the spell cast over the villagers by the Megrimum--the mysterious something that lurks on the mist-wreathed peak of Kneeknock Rise. Everyone shudders in horror--delicious horror--whenever the Megrimum's unearthly wail floats down to the...
| Author | Elizabeth Hall |
| ISBN | 0440413214 |
Granite, a Siberian husky puppy, is all alone in the Alaskan forest after escaping from his kennel. Each moment of his life is threatened until Snowdrift, a great white wolf, welcomes him into a wolf pack. But Granite must earn his place among the wolf tribe by facing vicious attacks from the other wolves,...
| Author | Tor Seidler |
| ISBN | 0064407799 |
Montague Mad-Rat lives a solitary existence in the sewers of New York City. His only delights are scavenging through Central Park for feathers and berries for his mother, and painting the seashells his aunt brings him. One day, he rescues the beautiful Isabel Moberly-Rat, and upon escorting her home...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689874073 |
It's a scary world out there.
If only Marco hadn't read a newspaper article about a ranch and become determined to see one. If only Polo hadn't found himself longing for the mother he barely remembered as a soft-warm-wiggle-purr-milk-tongue. Then the two tabbies might have been content to remain...
| Author | Michael Hoeye |
| ISBN | 0399238808 |
Trouble is brewing at the Varmint Theater! Before he knows it, watchmaker mouse Hermux Tantamoq finds himself not only hired to track down a mysterious blackmailer, but roped into designing the set for an upcoming show. Hermux is on the case--and busy backstage--but as he enters the chaotic world of...
The touching story of an unusual friendship, from one of today's most masterful children's book writers. Now repackaged with an updated look and feel.
You could call it unusual. Strange in fact. Most dogs chase squirrels. But not Kona. He's friends with a squirrel. A squirrel named Stumpy....
| Author | Dietlof Reiche |
| ISBN | 0439531551 |
Who would have thought that a writer's life could be so dangerous! Only the inimitable Freddy could turn a series of harrowing adventures into fodder for a spectacular sequel.
Even a brilliant hamster can be prone to lapses of judgment. Which is how Freddy came to post his autobiography on the...
| Author | Audrey Couloumbis |
| ISBN | 0142501867 |
When twelve-year-old Casey came home to an empty apartment, she didn't think much of it. But when she wakes up the next morning, and her stepmother, Sylvia, still hasn't come home, she knows that something is wrong. What has happened to Sylvia, and will she ever come back? Casey doesn't know who she'll...
| Author | Sally Prue |
| ISBN | 0439482682 |
Part human, part elfin, young Tom struggles to find a place to call home in this striking debut fantasy novel.
Tom is both elfin and human, and running for his life. Cast out from the elfin Tribe, he must hide among the hated humans, whom the Tribe call "demons." Tom's Tribe-half seeks freedom...
