The Book of the Mad

8 best books like The Book of the Mad (Tanith Lee): Bob, Be Prepared, Making Friends, Tales from Earthsea, The Fairy-Tale Princess: Seven Classic Stories from the Enchanted Forest, Glitch, The Jewel and Her Lapidary, This Was Our Pact

Bob

Author	Wendy Mass
ISBN	1250166624

A classic middle-grade tale of magic and friendship, about a girl who helps an old friend find home, by two New York Times–bestselling authors Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead.

It’s been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy’s grandmother in Australia. Now that she’s...

Be Prepared

Author

Vera Brosgol

A gripping and hilarious middle-grade summer camp memoir from the author of Anya's Ghost.

All Vera wants to do is fit in—but that’s not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera’s single...

Making Friends

Author	Kristen Gudsnuk
ISBN	1338139215

Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danielle. All her friends were in the same room and she knew what to expect from her life. But now that she's in seventh grade, she's in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes and forming new cliques, and she is completely lost.

When Danielle...

Tales from Earthsea

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0441011241

Tales from Earth Sea (The Earthsea Cycle, #5), Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It accompanies five novels (1968 to 2001) set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea.
"The Finder"....

The Fairy-Tale Princess: Seven Classic Stories from the Enchanted Forest

Author	Su Blackwell
ISBN	0500650063

This is a beautiful collection of seven fairy tales Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White, The Princess and the Pea, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses organized around the theme of the fairytale princess and retold in a fresh and lyrical voice by Wendy Jones. They are illustrated...

Glitch

Author	Sarah Graley
ISBN	1338174517

From comics rising star Sarah Graley, a fresh and funny middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl who must save a virtual world... and her own!
Izzy has an incredible secret -- she can enter the world of her new video game! She meets Rae, a robot who says Izzy is destined to save Dungeon City from the...

The Jewel and Her Lapidary

Author	Fran Wilde
ISBN	0765389835

From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power...

This Was Our Pact

Author	Ryan Andrews
ISBN	1626720533

Ryan Andrews's This Was Our Pact is an astonishing, magical-realist adventure story for middle-grade readers.

It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off...