The Boy in the Burning House
10 best books like The Boy in the Burning House (Tim Wynne-Jones): A Step from Heaven, Stone Fox, The House, Surrender, Black Juice, Repossessed, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, True Believer, Dark Sons
| Author | An Na |
| ISBN | 0142500275 |
When Young Ju is four years old, she learns that her family is leaving their small fishing village in Korea to live in Mi Gook. Young Ju has heard enough about Mi Gook to be sure the place they are moving to is paradise, that she and her family are going to heaven.
After flying through the sky for a long...
| Author | John Reynolds Gardiner |
| ISBN | 0064401324 |
John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years.
Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls...
| Author | Bentley Little |
| ISBN | 0451192249 |
Five complete strangers from across America are about to come together and open the door to a place of evil that they all call home. Inexplicably, four men and one woman are having heart-stopping nightmares revolving around the dark and forbidding houses where each of them were born. When recent terrifying...
| Author | Sonya Hartnett |
| ISBN | 0763634239 |
"Sophisticated young readers will be awed by the delicate, measured, heartbreaking portrait that emerges." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving...
| Author | Margo Lanagan |
| ISBN | 0060743921 |
In this extraordinary short story collection, human frailty is put to the test by the relentless forces of dark and light, man and beast. Each tale offers glimpses into familiar, shadowy worlds that push the boundaries of the spirit and leave the mind haunted with the knowledge that black juice runs...
| Author | A.M. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0060835680 |
Don't call me a demon. I prefer the term Fallen Angel.
Everybody deserves a vacation, right? Especially if you have a pointless job like tormenting the damned. So who could blame me for blowing off my duties and taking a small, unauthorized break?
Besides, I've always wanted to see...
On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems.
With photos and an extensive list of facts...
| Author | Jan Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0810943867 |
Fantastic concept. Seeing the works of art through the poets' eyes really helped me see more in them, connect with them on a deeper level. Many were new to me, though, and that was interesting, too.
I really liked what Bobbi Katz did in "Lessons from a Painting by Rothko" for one of Marc Rothko's...
| Author | Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| ISBN | 0689852886 |
LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about. Loyalty to her father bubbles up as her mother grows closer to a new man. The two girls she used to do everything with have chosen a path LaVaughn wants no part of. And then there's Jody....
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 1423102517 |
Sam can't believe it when his father leaves the family to marry another woman--and a white woman, at that. The betrayal cuts deep--Sam had been so close to his dad, he idolized him. Now who can he turn to, who can he trust? Even God seems to have ditched him.
Ishmael is his father's first son, the...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0805077065 |
A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet.
Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young...
Keep the door locked...
A week's visit to the remote Harob Lake cabin couldn't have come at a better time for Sam.
She's battling artist's block ahead of a major gallery exhibition. Staying at Harob Lake is her final, desperate attempt to paint the collection that could save her floundering...
