Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye
10 best books like Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye (Wendelin Van Draanen): The River at Green Knowe, Phone Home, Persephone!, The Well-Wishers, The Magic City, The Wouldbegoods, The Tell-Tale Start, The Phantom of the Post Office, Gypsy Rizka, It Happened on a Train, New York Dead
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0786816651 |
I have finished reading Phone Home Persephone by Kate McMullen. The book is about Hades meeting a goddess named Persephone. Hades likes living alone in his kingdom but Persephone wants to tag along on a ride to the underworld. Hades won't let her but she sneaks onto his chariot and tags along to the underworld....
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152949941 |
Just when the children thought the magic in the old well was all played out (that is, if it was magic!) and had sworn an oath in blood not to make any more wishes until the well gave them a sign, Gordy—in a reckless moment—told it to get going with its magic, or else! Something certainly did begin to happen...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 1587170248 |
The first real book I ever read on my own; "real" in the sense of having a couple of hundred pages, not very many pictures, a plot, and some character development. I remember being puzzled by the switches between the everyday world and the fantasy world, and not understanding what was going on until about...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367519 |
Edith Nesbit’s life was certainly unconventional by late Victorian and Edwardian standards, and it’s not surprising that her own childhood experiences and adult observations find themselves thinly fictionalised in her novels, particularly those written for children. Typical is her re-use...
| Author | Gordon McAlpine |
| ISBN | 0142423467 |
Meet Edgar and Allan Poe -- twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They look and act so much alike that they're almost one mischievous, prank-playing boy in two bodies. When their beloved black cat, Roderick Usher, is kidnapped and...
| Author | Kate Klise |
| ISBN | 0547519745 |
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR FAN IS A PHANTOM?
The talented trio at Spence Mansion loves getting fan mail. But when a strange letter arrives saying that the end is near, it's clear something sinister is afoot. Even worse, the Ghastly Post Office is preparing to close, which will make it difficult to...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0141309806 |
Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a small town while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople. High comedy as much as a celebration of Rizka's brains and brassiness, her flouting of conventions, and her own brand...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1416978194 |
Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But it’s hard to leave the old game behind, and on a train trip down the California coast, Steve finds himself pulled back into sleuthing. Soon he’s in over...
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.
Suddenly he's on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his...
