Stones for My Father
10 best books like Stones for My Father (Trilby Kent): Bloody Jack, Wolf Brother, In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber, The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail, Soul Eater, The Skeleton Tree, Moonfleet, Rebels of the Kasbah, The Wreckers, Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy
Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 0060728272 |
Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined.
In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told...
| Author | L.A. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152055576 |
The British crown has placed a price on Jacky's head, and so she returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston to lay low. But laying low isn't in the cards for a spunky lass who finds trouble even when she's not looking for it.
A school outing goes awry as Jacky and her classmates...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0803738382 |
Newbery Award-winning author Richard Peck is at his very best in this fast-paced mystery adventure. Fans of The Tale of Desperaux, A Little Princess, and Stuart Little will all be captivated by this memorable story of a lovable orphan mouse on an amazing quest.
The smallest mouse in London’s...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 1842551140 |
Threat
This is the third book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series and the story continues with Torak and Renn on a mission to rescue Wolf who has been taken captive by Soul Eaters. The soul eaters are a demonic evil power that exists and seems to be targeting him. The rescue is no doubt a trap...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1101918357 |
Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they've got to find a way to forage,...
"Moonfleet" (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? How can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune's treasure?
As...
| Author | Joe O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0985196947 |
Prepare for a World of Adventure Go back in time to 1912 Morocco.
An age of mystery.
A time of danger.
A group of children confront the mysteries of an ancient kasbah.
A pirate who is not what he seems.
A British colonel forced to choose between his country and...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0440415454 |
There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors'...
| Author | L.A. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152065016 |
On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned.
Jacky has survived battles...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0440415969 |
"Steer clear of that ship," warns the mysterious gentleman who shares a coach with John and his father. "Death she'll bring you," says the man. "It's the way of a ship that was christened with blood."
This is an ominous introduction to the schooner John is about to be entrusted with for a voyage...
After seeing his father hauled off to debtor's prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his family's misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasure and...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 0141343087 |
From a time of myths and ancient magic will come the legend of the lost city of Atlantis, tales of gods and warriors – and the rise of a hero.
His sister is missing. His dog has been killed. High in the Greek mountains, Hylas is running for his life.
The mysterious black warriors want Hylas...
