Reader and Educator Guide to "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"
10 best books like Reader and Educator Guide to "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" (Harcourt): Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood, Trusted, Protector of the Grove, The Violet Fairy Book, Nightborn, Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard, Merlin, Darkin: A Journey East, King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero, The Last Enchanter (Celestine Chronicles #2)
Gamaliel Tumpin has never been much more than a klutz. He can't shape-change into a mouse like his werling peers, and he can't run as fast as everyone else, and about all that he can do is fall flat on his face. Or so it seems. But on the day a dark force led by the wrathful High Lady of Hollow Hill threatens the...
Renick, the fifth son of a dragon breeder, crashes into an unexpected adventure that challenges everything he thought he knew about dragons, history, and himself.
Stranded in the massive Helath forest, Renick meets two other passengers: Thane, a noble training to be a dragon knight, and...
The Jharro Grove Saga: Part Two
Jhonate’s reprieve from her father has been cut short. She is forced to return home to Malaroo, bringing Justan along with her. The journey she has avoided for so long has become all the more difficult because someone wants Justan dead.
The rogue horse Esmine,...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486216756 |
In the preface of The Violet Fairy Book, Andrew Lang's seventh in the series, he seems quite annoyed at certain "ladies" who persist in the belief that he is the author, rather than editor of the stories. Before you get too excited that means he will for once provide thorough credit for his sources, he continues:
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For fans of Lloyd Alexander and Brandon Mull comes Book 2 in the acclaimed Thrones and Bones fantasy-adventure trilogy that began with Frostborn.
Karn Korlundsson is a gamer. Not a riddle solver. But in order to rescue his best friend, Thianna Frostborn, he will need to travel to the faraway...
Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard The very best books, in my opinion, are the ones that lead me to read many other very good books. Two examples of this sort par excellence are Francine Prose's Reading like a Writer and Stephen Cox's The New Testament and Literature. From them, I received not only the pleasure of those authors' well-written...
| Author | Norma Lorre Goodrich |
| ISBN | 0531150607 |
"The man, Merlin/Saint Dubricius, a wondrous prodigy, has even now supplied history with a retrospective pattern of crisis and human response the we treasure, like his voice form the so very long ago, speaking as a survivor of terrible perils and penance."
My goal today was to finish this...
ASIN B00902HZZ2 moved to the more recent edition here and then here
The greatest dark wizard, long thought dead, has risen anew; in his wake marches the vast army of the Feral Brood. None could have foreseen the total evil set to descend upon Darkin.
A long age of peace has left the land...
| Author | John Matthews |
| ISBN | 0517224445 |
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have captured the world's imagination since medieval times. The tales of King Arthur are rooted in history, but over the years the facts have become shrouded in myth and mystery. In this beautifully illustrated book Arthurian expert John Matthews explores...
The Last Enchanter (Celestine Chronicles #2)
| Author | Laurisa White Reyes |
| ISBN | 1933718935 |
Months have passed since Marcus and Kelvin succeeded in their quest to find the Rock of Ivanore. Kelvin is living as royalty in Dokur, and Marcus is studying magic with Zyll. When Fredric is murdered and Kelvin becomes king, Zyll and Marcus head for Dokur in hopes of protecting Kelvin from meeting the...
| Author | Bill Allen |
| ISBN | 1611940060 |
Ruuan is a very large dragon. Twelve-year-old Greg Hart can't slay a dragon. He'd be lucky to win a fight against one of the smaller girls at school.
Now the magicians of Myrth have mistaken him for a legendary warrior, so they've yanked Greg into their world of sorcery and danger. Nothing will stop...
In an alternative universe Britain remains an island of mists, populated by Celtic tribes and governed by feudal hierarchy. Evolution has taken a different path and mythical beasts exist. Only noblemen's sons are recruited into an elite troop known as the Griffin Riders. The best a nameless nobody...
After learning the Queen of Galia wishes to destroy her, and sent men—including her father’s killer—to Alyria to arrest her, Erynn and her friend, Adena, fled Caraden Castle and set out on a journey to find her birth parents and the Order of the Cael, a group she hopes can help her. Blamed soon after...
| Author | L.R.W. Lee |
| ISBN | 1494730162 |
"This series has everything a kid could want, action, adventure, magic, excitement and mystery!" - Erik Weibel, This Kid Reviews Books (Erik is 12)
Eleven-year-old Andy Smithson returns to Oomaldee to retrieve the second ingredient needed to break a 500-year-old curse enacted to punish...
"This novel defies conventional classification: is it science fiction? biblical fiction? thriller? The story describes a world where flying two-headed dragons and ogres exist, characters with telepathic gifts communicate with both animals and people, a man named Noah builds an Ark in his backyard,...
Mason McQueen and the Gargoyle's Curse (book 1)
When Mason McQueen's overbearing mother hears strange animal sounds from inside her son’s room she is convinced that he is harbouring a stray dog, but only the old stone gargoyle statue that sits outside Mason’s bedroom window knows the real truth. Lucky to be alive after surviving a horrific traffic...
If A Dragon Cries (The Legend of Hooper's Dragons Book 1)
Legend says that a great calamity follows the birth of a mystical golden dragon. It also says she will save everyone from the catastrophe. Hooper doesn’t believe in such nonsense, but he is about to find out how utterly wrong he is, and so is everyone else on Erdron.
Terribly burned by dragon fire,...
The Legend of the Flaming Dragon
| Author | Rashad McCardy |
| ISBN | 1503202003 |
Rowan is a young prince, whose father tries to control every aspect of his life. This leads to bitterness and frustration between the prince and king. However, one night Rowan makes a discovery that changes everything...
Meanwhile, the ten kingdoms are dealing with the first real threat of war...
Less than four years ago, Simon O'Toole was a middle-aged I.T. specialist. Now, after the fall of technology and the rise of magic, he has been Changed. He has become a young wizard, struggling to use his new-found powers and trying to survive in a world rich in magical energy and filled with reborn, legendary...
The Curse of the Thrax (Bloodsword Trilogy, Book 1)
| Author | Mark Murphy |
| ISBN | 1491276363 |
Jaykriss is a typical teenager. He’s bored with school, the girl he loves doesn’t even know he’s alive, and he and his mother disagree—a lot.
Not everything is typical in Jaykriss’s life, however. Glyndich the Great, Jaykriss’s warrior father, died fighting a dragon—and...
Didn't really keep my interest for the first 7% of the book. To the point I wandered off and tried some other things before returning. Part of the problem probably involves the main character being only 11. I think the last time I read a character that young was when I read Suzanne Collins Gregor the Overlander....
| Author | David Day |
| ISBN | 1586635271 |
J.R.R. Tolkien had a great knowledge of, and love for, world mythology when he wrote his beloved trilogy of Middle Earth. In particular, the symbol of the Ring has a rich and fascinating heritage, and this beautifully illustrated literary detective work searches down Tolkien's sources and inspiration....
Continuing from the second book of the BirthRight Trilogy, Awakening, is the final installment—Feel the Burn.
The battle to save Gar’nyse is upon them and already the costs are insurmountable.
With no other option but to knowingly sail into a trap, the girls, the Griffon Guard, and...
| Author | H. Anthe Davis |
| ISBN | 1484971124 |
Redemption through Service.
Purification through Sacrifice.
These are the tenets of the Imperial Light, and Cob follows them devoutly despite being enslaved for his father's treason. Now, raised as a soldier and betrayed by a friend, he has been driven from the Imperial Army into...
Thaddeus Whiskers and the Dragon
| Author | H.L. Burke |
| ISBN | 1502803526 |
Thaddeus F. Whiskers is a pampered palace pet, a kitten enchanted to never become a cat. Princess Clarice loves him, for in the entire kingdom, there is no other kitten as cute or as clever. He leads a life of cushions and cream until a wizard's "gift" results in his banishment. Determined to make it back...
