Spy for the Queen of Scots
10 best books like Spy for the Queen of Scots (Theresa Breslin): The Tiger in the Well, Witch Child, The Merciful Crow, After, Now, Then, The Tin Princess, Unpregnant, The Girl in the Mask, Max the Mighty
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0679826718 |
Pullman is fast becoming a modern-day Dickens for young adults. The setting is the same, the strong eye for characters is there, as are the brooding atmosphere, the social conscience, and the ability to spin plot within plot.
Sally Lockhart is now a young woman, left alone with a toddler. Nothing...
| Author | Celia Rees |
| ISBN | 0763618292 |
The spellbinding diary of a teenage girl who escapes persecution as a witch--only to face new intolerance in a Puritan settlement.
Enter the world of young Mary Newbury, a world where simply being different can cost a person her life. Hidden until now in the pages of her diary, Mary's startling...
| Author | Margaret Owen |
| ISBN | 1250191920 |
A future chieftain.
Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime.
A fugitive prince.
When Crown...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0670075442 |
I really like the style, the story written from the perspective of a child with a different way of looking at things. Plenty of excitement and unexpected. ONCE upon a time there was a 10 year old Jewish boy called Felix whose parents were taken away by the Nazis. THEN, his close friend and ally, Zelda, was...
Now is the third shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series.
Sometimes facing the past is the bravest act of all...
ONCE
I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood.
THEN
I found out what the Nazis did to his...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0141324821 |
In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape . . .
A little hope goes a...
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0439977797 |
Sally Lockhart's friend and partner-in-adventure Jim Taylor has just solved a mystery. For years he's been searching for Adelaide, the little girl enslaved by toothless crone Mrs Holland in The Ruby in the Smoke. And now he's found her - just as she's about to become a princess. Crown Princess of Razkavia,...
Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke never thought she would wish she’d failed a test until she finds herself holding a thick piece of plastic in her hands and staring at two solid pink lines. Even the most consistent use of condoms won’t prevent pregnancy when your boyfriend secretly pokes holes...
| Author | Marie-Louise Jensen |
| ISBN | 0192792792 |
Set in Georgian England, fifteen-year-old Sophia is trapped by the limitations of living in a man's world. Forced by her father to give up everything she loves, Sophia is ordered to make a new life in Bath. By day, she is trapped in the social whirl of balls and masquerades. By night, she secretly swaps...
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0590579649 |
Max the Mighty the sequel to Freak the mighty revolves around Max and Rachel often referred to as worm, because of her desire to read. Their friendship forms due to Max saving Rachel from her vicious stepfather the undertaker. Max escapes with worm and go on a quest to find her real father. They meet many...
