Rise of the Darklings
10 best books like Rise of the Darklings (Paul Crilley): The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919, Wild Magic, When the Dolls Woke, When the Whistle Blows, The Secret History of Tom Trueheart, The Ruby Key, Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris, Oblivion Road, Coolie, Across the Black Waters
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
| Author | Mark Thompson |
| ISBN | 0571223338 |
On the hardcover version of Mark Thompson’s The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, there’s a remarkable picture of tiny soldiers jumping out of their snow packed trenches. In front of them is the steep side of a mountain. Talk about the Mountains of Madness! But that’s pretty much the...
| Author | Cat Weatherill |
| ISBN | 0141321148 |
Dark, magical and exciting, Cat Weatherill's new fantasy takes the legend of the Pied Piper and gives it an unexpected twist.
Mari and her brother Jakob have followed the enchanted music and are now trapped in a world of wild magic. A world as cruel as it is beautiful. And all the time, they are...
| Author | Marjorie Filley Stover |
| ISBN | 0590404199 |
Following on from Midnight in the dollhouse this story skips forward in time about 100 years to a time when the doll's house is passed on to a descendant of the original owner. A mystery is solved again and treasure is found.
A 3.5 star book, my daughter said that this was an okay book, but I think...
| Author | Fran Cannon Slayton |
| ISBN | 0399251898 |
Jimmy lives in Rowlesburg, West Virginia, during the 1940s. He does all the things boys do in the small mountain town: plays a mean game of football, pulls the unforgettable Halloween prank with his friends in ?the Platoon,? and promises to head off into the woods on the first day of hunting season? no...
| Author | Ian Beck |
| ISBN | 0061152102 |
Young Tom comes from a line of storybook heroes. And by that I mean the actual heroes of such stories as "Jack the Giant Killer" and "The Frog Prince." Whether a clever tailor or a charming prince, the hero in each of your favorite fairy tales was most likely a member of the Trueheart clan, acting on instructions...
| Author | Holly Lisle |
| ISBN | 0545000122 |
Bestselling fantasy writer Holly Lisle brings us her children's debut with a lyrical, fast paced fantasy for middle-grade readers!
Mankind is Sunkind
And rules by the light;
Nightlings are Moonkind,
And rule in the night;
Or there will be war.
Human and Nightlings...
| Author | R.L. LaFevers |
| ISBN | 0618927646 |
I am officially in love with this series.
It was humorous, witty and full of adventure.
Some might think it a bit childlike books but wasn't Harry Potter suppose to be for children? I think my age has given me a chance to appreciate books more than as a child.
Theodosia's comments...
| Author | Alex McAulay |
| ISBN | 1416548068 |
Five stranded teenagers must battle for their lives against a group of escaped convicts, and each other, in this shocking survival thriller from the author of Bad Girls and Lost Summer.
Courtney Stanton thinks she's on just another ski trip with her friends -- until a horrific car accident...
| Author | Mulk Raj Anand |
| ISBN | 0140186808 |
Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival...
| Author | Mulk Raj Anand |
| ISBN | 0865780811 |
'Across the Black Waters' is an English novel by the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1939. It describes the experience of Lalu, a sepoy in the Indian Army fighting on behalf of Britain against the Germans in France during World War I. He is portrayed by the author as an innocent peasant whose...
