Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
8 best books like Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird (Vivian Vande Velde): Deep Secret, The Shakespeare Stealer, Matilda Bone, The Whipping Boy, Dark Lord of Derkholm, You Nest Here with Me, Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 3, The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0765342472 |
Rupert Venables is a Magid.
It's a Magid's job to oversee what goes on in the vast Multiverse. Actually, Rupert is really only a junior Magid. But he's got a king-sized problem. Rupert's territory includes Earth and the Empire of Korfyros. When his mentor dies Rupert must find a replacement....
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0141305959 |
Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0440418224 |
Newbery medalist Karen Cushman assembles a cast of unforgettable characters in a fascinating and pungent setting: the medical quarter of a medieval English Village. To Blood and Bone Alley, home of leech, barber-surgeon, and apothecary, comes Matilda, raised by a priest to be pious and learned,...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0060521228 |
A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now?" It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0575075368 |
Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand fantasy adventure, including...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1590789237 |
With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors. The soothing refrain...
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 3
| Author | Christopher Golden |
| ISBN | 0689864361 |
The Slayers' lives are short, and not very sweet. The Watchers' Journals are full of their tales -- their battles, their triumphs, and ultimately, their successors. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is but the latest in a long line of women warriors stretching back to the dawn of humankind. As long as there have...
The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0689851227 |
The Mary Celeste was discovered adrift on the open sea by another ship in 1872 -- with no sign of captain or crew. What happened? Did the crew mutiny? Were they attacked by pirates? Caught in a storm? No one ever found out.
Inside this book are the clues that were left behind and the theories of what people...
