Shadowland
10 best books like Shadowland (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni): Corambis, Enter the Earth, The Ever Breath, The Heir of Mistmantle, Withering-By-Sea, Eidi: The Children of Crow Cove, Princess Juniper of the Hourglass, Loups-Garous, Kira, Over the Wall
| Author | Sarah Monette |
| ISBN | 0441015964 |
Corambis
Or
Felix Tries Not To Be A Dick For a Change and Seriously Who Designed This Cover?
This was an excellent conclusion to the series. There are dark parts in the story telling, but over all things end on an unapologetically happy note. Which feels right and fair for everything...
Elizabeth Angier was happy to be at the end of the school year. She thought her summer on the family farm would be full of work and play with her best friend, Rachel, and her other best friend, her dog, Maizey. However, Elizabeth didn't anticipate the Harmony Farms Corporation moving to her town. Her world...
| Author | Julianna Baggott |
| ISBN | 0385737610 |
Twins Truman and Camille have been deserted by their father. Now their mother is leaving them for three weeks with their paternal grandmother Swelda, whom they’ve never met and only know from her disappointing gifts of soap and ChapStick. Things look up when Swelda turns out to be weird but cool. When...
| Author | M.I. McAllister |
| ISBN | 0786854901 |
King Crispin and Queen Cedar have just had a baby daughter--Princess Catkin--and everyone on Mistmantle Island gathers for the joyful celebration of the Naming Ceremony. But the day after, the princess suddenly disappears. Urchin and all the brave captains are dispatched to bring back the princess,...
| Author | Judith Rossell |
| ISBN | 0733333001 |
High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts. But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn't have... Something...
| Author | Bodil Bredsdorff |
| ISBN | 0374312672 |
Some years have passed since the Crow-Girl set off on a journey, met Eidi and her mother, Foula, along with a few others, and persuaded them to come live near the little cove where a brook runs out to the sea. But when Foula has another baby, Eidi feels there's no longer room for her in the settlement. So she...
| Author | Ammi-Joan Paquette |
| ISBN | 0399171517 |
In this royal adventure, Princess Juniper learns what it means to rule a kingdom–at least for the summer.
For her thirteenth nameday all Princess Juniper wants is a country of her own. So when rumblings of unrest start in his kingdom, Juniper's father decides to grant his daughter's wish...
| Author | Natsuhiko Kyogoku |
| ISBN | 1421532336 |
In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through online networks - face-to-face meetings are rare and the surveillance state nearly all-powerful. Even school children are only allowed to meet in the flesh on school grounds. So when a serial killer starts slaughtering students,...
When war comes to the kingdom, Lord Dorcon and his knights arrive at Kira's home to take her father, mother and brother, Dane, to the palace to serve the King. Kira and her sisters are to go to Lasser Commons -- the most notorious prison in the land. Their only crime? Being unmarried girls.
In a whirl...
| Author | John H. Ritter |
| ISBN | 0698119312 |
Tyler's temper is out of control. If he isn't careful, he'll blow his chances of making the All-Star team and being noticed by a scout. But Tyler's coach, a Vietnam War veteran, has seen anger destroy enough people. He knows that if Tyler is ever going to fulfill his dreams, he'll have to learn to fight his...
WELCOME TO KOTEQUOG!
In their quest for adventure, Princess Pira and Lono--along with their companions, the fire spirit Yonder and warrior cat Chobo--have made their way to the big city. There they must contend with strange laws, stranger men and the strangest monsters if they wish to join...
| Author | Sam Llewellyn |
| ISBN | 0439934699 |
Lyonesse is the land of legends and magic. It's the forgetten land where King Arthur once resided with Merlin and his Knights of the Round Table. But thousands of years after the great king walked this country, it has become a place of shadows, where men hunt and capture the monsters that lurk below in the...
| Author | Kazuya Minekura |
| ISBN | 1598160257 |
I'm taking KatiKat's advice and reading some manga to get me back into reading. Just not been in the mood for novels lately!
Saiyuki Reload starts at breakneck pace and never really slows down in this volume. The Sanzo party are famous and being hunted by all youkai. There is a lot of subtext between...
| Author | Tony Ballantyne |
| ISBN | 0553589288 |
It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city-and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire...
| Author | Kate Klimo |
| ISBN | 0375866922 |
What do you do when your dragon becomes a 'tween? Worry! And that's exactly what Dragon Keepers Jesse and Daisy do when their dragon, Emmy, outgrows their garage and starts disappearing. Luckily, when she really disappears, she also leaves them a trail of socks, which leads them headlong into a . . . volcano?...
An explosion in a nuclear power plant.
Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants.
A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction.
"No," whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. "That's not me....
| Author | Arthur Slade |
| ISBN | 1443416703 |
A ruthless queen. An ancient god. One brave girl and an impossible choice.
For over a thousand years, Queen Servilia has ruled the world of Illium. Using magical red dust mined from the earth, she has enslaved her subjects, enforcing uniformity and sameness to maintain her absolute power.
But...
A high-flying fantasy adventure that will blow readers away!
Every kite Oliver touches flies straight into the ground, making him the laughingstock of Windblowne. With the kite-flying festival only days away, Oliver tracks down his reclusive great-uncle Gilbert, a former champion. With...
| Author | Christopher Russell |
| ISBN | 0060841168 |
Brind
Discovered as a baby in Sir Edmund's kennels, Brind has grown up with the mastiffs. He plays with them, eats with them, and sleeps in their den. Brind understands dogs better than he understands any human.
Glaive
The largest and most powerful dog in the pack, Glaive is...
| Author | Alexander C. Irvine |
| ISBN | 0446564583 |
"I am Iron Man." With those words, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark revealed his secret identity. Now a famous high-tech superhero, he uses his powers to protect mankind. Yet things are not going well for Tony Stark. The U.S. military demands control of the most powerful weapon on earth--the Iron...
| Author | Tom Avery |
| ISBN | 1783442263 |
Jamie and Ned are twins. They do everything together: riding their bikes, beachcombing outside their house, watching their favourite episodes of Star Trek.
But Ned is sick, and one day, he may leave Jamie behind.
When they discover a strange...
In the Heart of the Valley of Love
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 0520207289 |
Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writing—this is not...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 1442449764 |
Rosalind is caught between two worlds as Gandhi’s nonviolent revolution takes hold in this standalone companion to Small Acts of Amazing Courage.
Rosalind inhabits two worlds in 1920s India. There is the world of her heritage—English to the core, with a strict father who is a major in...
| Author | Monika Schröder |
| ISBN | 0374364117 |
Initial reaction: Very unexpected surprise. I didn't expect to enjoy this novel as much as I did, particularly with it being a random read that I picked up from my local library. I thought the environment and details with respect to India were a nice touch, and I really liked following Akash's journey...
