Spellfall

10 best books like Spellfall (Katherine Roberts): Tithe, The Vampire Armand, Midnight for Charlie Bone, The Swallows, The Seer and the Sword, The Little White Horse, The Looking Glass Wars, The False Princess, The Spirit Thief, Ill Wind

Tithe
AuthorHolly Black
ISBN0689867042
Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries!

Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop,...
The Vampire Armand
AuthorAnne Rice
ISBN0345434803
In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the...
Midnight for Charlie Bone
AuthorJenny Nimmo
ISBN0439474299
A magical fantasy that is fast-paced and easy-to-read. Charlie Bone has a special gift- he can hear people in photographs talking!

The fabulous powers of the Red King were passed down through his descendants, after turning up quite unexpectedly, in someone who had no idea where they came from....
The Swallows
AuthorLisa Lutz
ISBN1984818236
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series.

What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?

It starts with this simple writing prompt...
AuthorVictoria Hanley
ISBN0440229774
Legend states that there exists a mighty sword that makes its possessor invincible to his enemies. But there is a curse on anyone who lifts the sword for conquest. King Kareed of Archeld goes after this sword anyway, winning it from the King of Bellandra. When he returns home from battle, he brings his...
The Little White Horse
AuthorElizabeth Goudge
ISBN0142300276
In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny; the Manor itself feels like home...
The Looking Glass Wars
AuthorFrank Beddor
ISBN0803731531
Alyss of Wonderland?
When Alyss Heart, newly orphaned heir to the Wonderland throne, flees through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous Aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking...
The False Princess
AuthorEilis O'Neal
ISBN1606840797
Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia's led a privileged life at court.  But everything changes when it's revealed, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection.  Cast out with little more...
The Spirit Thief
AuthorRachel Aaron
ISBN0316069051
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief.

But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no...
Ill Wind
AuthorRachel Caine
ISBN0451459520
First in the new Weather Warden series... Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now, she's trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So, she's resorting to the very human tactic of running...
The Mummy
AuthorAnne Rice
Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed...
Empress
AuthorKaren Miller
ISBN0316008354
Her name is Hekat--
And she will be slave to no man.

In a family torn apart by poverty and violence, Hekat is no more than an unwanted mouth to feed, worth only a few coins from a passing slave trader.

But Hekat was not born to be a slave. For her, a different path has been chosen. It is a...
Only Ashes Remain
AuthorRebecca Schaeffer
After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market.

There’s...
Into the Land of the Unicorns
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0439108381
One unicorn dwells on Earth.
Hundreds fight in Luster.
Their legends are recorded in
THE UNICORN CHRONICLES

Into the Land of the Unicorns
As each chime sounds, Cara climbs faster up the steep bell tower. Eleven! She must be on the roof when the next bell tolls. Twelve! With...
The Final Descent
AuthorRick Yancey
ISBN1442451556
Will Henry and Dr. Warthrop have encountered many horrors together—but can Will endure a monstrumological terror without his mentor?

Will Henry has been through more that seems possible for a boy of fourteen. He’s been on the brink of death on more than one occasion, he has gazed into hell—and...
The Isle of Blood
AuthorRick Yancey
ISBN1416984526

When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can't let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright...
The Babysitters Coven
AuthorKate Williams
ISBN0525707379
Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.

Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club....
The Bridge Kingdom
AuthorDanielle L. Jensen
ISBN1733090320
What if you fell in love with the one person you'd sworn to destroy?

Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. A princess trained from childhood to be a lethal spy, Lara knows that the Bridge Kingdom represents both legendary evil - and...
Toxic
AuthorLydia Kang
Hana isn't supposed to exist. She's grown up hidden by her mother in a secret room of the bioship Cyclo until the day her mother is simple gone - along with the entire crew. Cyclo tells her she was abandoned, but she's certain her mother wouldn't leave her there to die. And Hana isn't ready to die yet. She's...
The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People
AuthorJudith Orloff
ISBN1622036573
What is the difference between having empathy and being an empath? "Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff. "But for empaths it goes much further. We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the...
William Golding, Lord of the flies Penguin Study Notes
AuthorGillian E. Hanscombe
ISBN0140772863
In William Golding's The Lord of the Flies, the conch shell holds the power of the boys who are on the island. The conch shell either brings them together or forces them apart. From the very beginning when Piggy finds the conch and when Ralph blows the shell, all the boys gather for a meeting. There are several...
The Book of Dead Days
AuthorMarcus Sedgwick
ISBN0385747047
THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery...
Ajaya: Roll of the Dice
AuthorAnand Neelakantan
ISBN9381576033
CROSSWORD TOP 10 BOOK OF 2013 & 2014

CROSSWORD AWARD 2014 SHORTLISTED

THE MAHABHARATA ENDURES AS THE GREAT EPIC OF INDIA. But while Jaya is the story of the Pandavas, told from the perspective of the victors of Kurukshetra; Ajaya is the narrative of the ‘unconquerable’ Kauravas,...
Conan
AuthorRobert E. Howard
ISBN0441116302
Aaaaah...Conan!

I struggled with my star rating for Conan because, despite any mitigating factors, I really love the character of Conan, particularly in the hands of his progenitor, Robert E. Howard.

Howard had a fiercely creative mind and a burning work ethic that enabled him to...
Bully
AuthorYvonne Coppard
ISBN0099838605
I actually enjoyed this book more a lot more than the cover had suggested. Looking for resources for a teacher who wanted to focus on anti-bullying with her grade fives, I thought that a novel titled 'Bully' might be suitable. And it is. One downside is that it is British and quite dated. A combination of...
Part-Time Gods
AuthorRachel Aaron
Life in the magical mess of the Detroit Free Zone is never easy. When you’re laboring under the curse of a certain prideful, overbearing dragon, it can be down right impossible.

My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I’m a Cleaner. At least, I used to be. Thanks to the supernatural bad luck that turns...
Children of the Lost
AuthorDavid Whitley
Cast out of the city of Agora where they were left at the end of The Midnight Charter, Mark and Lily must now survive in a dense forest. The strange villages, terrifying nightmares, and powerful witches they find there are even more frightening than Agora with all its slums and secrets. In an adventure...
The Beast Is an Animal
AuthorPeternelle van Arsdale
A girl with a secret talent must save her village from the encroaching darkness in this haunting and deeply satisfying tale.

Alys was seven when the soul eaters came to her village.

These soul eaters, twin sisters who were abandoned by their father and slowly morphed into something...
The Thing with Feathers
AuthorMcCall Hoyle
ISBN0310758513
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she’s homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she’s probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can’t swim.

Then Emilie’s mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj’s to...
Dark Blade
AuthorSteve Feasey
ISBN1408873397
A sweeping epic fantasy perfect for fans of the Summoner trilogy by Taran Matharu and Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

WHEN GODS FAIL, WHO WILL KEEP THE DARKNESS OUT?

Lann knows nothing of his mysterious past, but by his fifteenth birthday he will come face to face with destiny. For Lann...
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