Shadow on the Sun
10 best books like Shadow on the Sun (David Macinnis Gill): Starcross, The Golden Transcendence, Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me, In the Path of Falling Objects, Beat the Band, The Gauntlet Thrown, Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons, Bridle the Wind, The Dark Shore, The Lost Compass
| Author | Philip Reeve |
| ISBN | 1599901218 |
Art, Myrtle, and their mother accept the kind invitation of a holiday to an up-and-coming asteroid resort. But they set out with visions of rest and relaxation only to be sucked into a dastardly plot involving spies, time travel, and mind-altering clothing! Before their adventures are over, they'll...
| Author | John C. Wright |
| ISBN | 0765349086 |
Begun with The Golden Age, continued with The Phoenix Exultant, and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence, The Golden Age trilogy is Grand Space Opera, an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. Van Gogt, Roger Zelazny and Cordwainer Smith. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling...
| Author | Lisa Papademetriou |
| ISBN | 0786851708 |
Allie Kimball is excited to be starting sixth grade. Her best friend is going to be in the same school and she is going to try out for the soccer team. But she soon learns that middle school is a very different world, full of strange new beasts, like glommers--girls who never go anywhere alone--and norks-a...
| Author | Andrew Smith |
| ISBN | 0312375581 |
Jonah and his younger brother, Simon, are on their own. They set out to find what’s left of their family, carrying between them ten dollars, a backpack full of dirty clothes, a notebook, and a stack of letters from their brother, who is serving a tour in Vietnam. And soon into their journey, they have...
| Author | Don Calame |
| ISBN | 0763646334 |
Get ready for riffs on hot girls, health class, and social hell! The outrageously funny boys from Swim the Fly return to rock their sophomore year.
In this hilarious sequel to Swim the Fly, told from Coop’s point of view, it’s the beginning of the school year, and the tenth-grade health class...
Brydon's quest was simple. Borrow the fabled Gauntlet of Ven-Kerrick, bring it home to prove his worth, marry the princess, and ascend the throne.
He had planned for the dangerous terrain and Redolian assassins, but he did not expect the Gauntlet to be missing, nor to find the Kerrick royal...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0064408485 |
Hippolyta is a true amazon. Proud and brave, she lives for the thrill of the hunt and for the friendship of her fellow female warriors. Then, because her mother demands it and in defiance of the laws of her people, she must take her newborn brother to his father in Troy, where she finds herself in terrible...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0152060588 |
After visiting his family in England, Felix is on his way back to Spain when he's shipwrecked off the coast of France. He is taken in by monks to recover from his ordeal--but it soon becomes clear to him that he is actually being held prisoner. Felix encounters an injured boy, Juan, on the grounds of...
| Author | Kevin Emerson |
| ISBN | 0062062824 |
Beware the gods and their horrors.
Owen and Lilly have escaped Camp Eden, but the next step on their journey to find Atlantis and protect it from Paul and Project Elysium involves crossing the perilous wastelands of a wrecked planet. And unlike in EdenWest, where bloody truths were kept hidden...
| Author | Joel N. Ross |
| ISBN | 0062352970 |
In the high-stakes sequel to The Fog Diver, thirteen-year-old Chess and his crew must stop the deadly and mysterious Fog from enveloping the city of Port Oro and destroying their world.
Chess and his crew—Hazel, Swedish, and Bea—may have escaped the slums, but they cannot escape the Fog...
| Author | Lucas Klauss |
| ISBN | 1442423889 |
Phillip’s sophomore year is off to a rough start. One of his best friends ditches him for a group of douchebags. His track coach singles him out for personalized, torturous training sessions. And his dad decides to clean out all of the emergency supplies from the basement, even though the world could...
| Author | James Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0385905246 |
JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that...
On a hot summer night in a Midwestern town, a high school teenage prank goes horrifically awry. Alcohol, guns, and a dare. Within minutes, as events collide, innocents becomes victims—with tragic outcomes altering lives forever, a grisly and unfortunate scenario all too familiar from current...
| Author | Charles Benoit |
| ISBN | 0061947075 |
"I need you to steal something for me."
Grace always has a plan. There's her plan to get famous, her plan to get rich, and—above all—her plan to have fun.
Sawyer has plenty of plans, too. Plans made for him by his mother, his father, his girlfriend. Maybe they aren't his plans, but...
| Author | Carrie Secor |
| ISBN | 1480107514 |
Senior Cadie Dawson has just been named editor of the school’s literary magazine. She hasn’t written anything decent since her breakup with Tom last year. She’s a little surprised, and a lot conflicted, to find new inspiration in Shane, a guy who runs in a completely different social circle and...
| Author | Sylvia Patzold |
| ISBN | 1621478734 |
While on a family trip to Israel, Sarah hasn't discovered just any goblet; she has come into possession of something not of this world. Something of Jesus's very own. The trip had been rocky so far. Sarah's husband, Bill, was distant as ever, and her son, Alex, is disagreeable as usual. Once Sarah gets...
| Author | Tom O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 1595147136 |
The thrilling intergalactic adventures of four kids in space—as told by Chorkle, a hilarious alien!
It all happened because of Feeney’s Original Astronaut Ice Cream. Those accursed pink bars entranced me with their sugary magic! But I digress . . .
Life on Gelo was fine until...
This book had me hooked from the title. And it is indeed ironic, droll and, at times, frightening. Ten year old Alex (who is a girl though she's often mistaken for a boy)finds a treasure map and must save her sixth grade teacher from pirates and help him find the buried treasure that is his birthright. What...
