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10 best books like The Cats of Seroster (Robert Westall): The Changeover, Room 13, The Return of the Twelves, The Cat Who Came in from the Cold, Marianne Dreams, The Silent Miaow: A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats, Amy's Eyes, Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat, Old Peter's Russian Tales, The Nine Lives of Aristotle

The Changeover
AuthorMargaret Mahy
ISBN0140365990
Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy.

The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn’t the first time she’d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly...
Room 13
AuthorRobert Swindells
ISBN0435124994
Somebody was in there. Somebody—or something...

There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room 12. And something...
The Return of the Twelves
AuthorPauline Clarke
ISBN0698201175
Beneath a floorboard in the old farmhouse into which his family has just moved, eight-year-old Max Morley discovers twelve time-worn wooden soldiers. Under his careful watch, the "Twelves" come to life, each possessing a name and a distinct personality. As Max soon learns, they share a history filled...
The Cat Who Came in from the Cold
AuthorDeric Longden
ISBN0552156191
The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real...
Marianne Dreams
AuthorCatherine Storr
ISBN0571202128
Ill and bored with having to stay in bed, Marianne picks up a pencil and starts doodling - a house, a garden, a boy at the window. That night she has an extraordinary dream. She is transported into her own picture, and as she explores further she soon realises she is not alone. The boy at the window is called...
The Silent Miaow: A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats
AuthorPaul Gallico
ISBN0517556839
For cat lovers, the title of this book speaks for itself. The Silent Miaow and the chapter devoted to it spell out all that is most endearing in our feline companions.

Put forth as a secret manuscript typed by a cat and transposed for publication by Paul Gallico, The Silent Miaow is subtitled,...
Amy's Eyes
AuthorRichard Kennedy
ISBN0064402207
Oh, oh, oh, what a lovely, sad, wonderful little book. Except it is not really little at all. It's thick, a glorious 437 pages, full of adventure, fantasy, mystery, and Mother Goose.
C.S. Lewis once said, "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the...
Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat
AuthorBarbara Sleigh
ISBN0140311874
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy

“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
Old Peter's Russian Tales
AuthorArthur Ransome
ISBN1903252164
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
The Nine Lives of Aristotle
AuthorDick King-Smith
ISBN0763622605
Dick King-Smith’s mischievous narrative and Bob Graham’s sweet, humorous watercolors capture the first eight lives of a kitten who’s ready to scamper his way into hearts everywhere.

Aristotle the kitten is so adventurous that it’s a good thing cats have nine lives. What’s even...
St. Mawr
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
St Mawr is a short novel (or novella) written by D. H. Lawrence. It was first published in 1925.

The heroine of the story, Lou Witt, abandons her sterile marriage and a brittle, cynical post-First World War England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited...
Pongwiffy: A Witch of Dirty Habits
AuthorKaye Umansky
ISBN0140342214
Pongwiffy has it all...a hovel of her own, a sometime-friend named Sharkadder, and an odor only a witch could love. Everything is almost perfect -- until a gaggle of Goblins move in next door. Heavens above, they're enough to wake the dead. It's time to move. But where? And where will she find a much-needed...
Dream-of-Jade: The Emperor's Cat
AuthorLloyd Alexander
ISBN0812627369
No ordinary man is permitted to see the great Kwan-Yu, emperor of China, but this doesn't stop the beautiful, green-eyed Dream-of-Jade, since she is not an ordinary man, but a rather unusual cat. When Dream-of-Jade decides she wants to see His Highness, she simply slips into the empty throne room and...
Down The Bright Stream
AuthorB.B.
ISBN0192792040
Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry, and Sneezewort are four gnomes known in the first book as The Little Grey Men.

They are told that The Folly, the little brook near their home is drying up and they decide to leave their home.

The book is the story of their adventures.

I read this...
The Third Magic
AuthorWelwyn Wilton Katz
ISBN0888993854
Fifteen-year-old Morgan Lefevre is mistaken for one of her ancestors while visiting Tintagel, King Arthur's birthplace in England. In this vivid and innovative interpretation of the King Arthur legend, she is summoned through time to the alien world of Nwm. With her only companion, the boy Arduu,...
Harding's Luck
AuthorE. Nesbit
With the assistance of the magical Mouldiwarp, Edred and Elfrida travel back in time to earlier periods of English history, searching for clues. Harding's Luck is a sequel to The House of Arden, a great favorite of Nesbit fans; it's a story of injustice, poverty, deformity, magic, romance, suspense,...
The Art of Murder
AuthorMichael White
ISBN0099551446
In all his years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon had never seen a corpse like this one. After the initial horror, he recognised the reference to the surrealist painter, Magritte. But that made the crime even more sickening - accomplished, as it had been, with a sickening ferocity which...
Savannah Comes Undone
AuthorDenise Hildreth Jones
ISBN0849944562
Seeing my mother as the lead story on the six o'clock news was no great cause for alarm...until the camera revealed her chained to a downtown monument!

I thought I knew my mother-but right now I'm not sure I even know myself. I'm currently a journalist for the Savannah Chronicle. And I don't need...
Lonely Planet Finland
AuthorAndy Symington
#1 best-selling guide to Finland* Lonely Planet Finland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Hike through forests and fells, spectacular gorges and ravines, fizz over the snow behind a team of huskies on an overnight...
Bobbie Faye's Whacked Out, No Good, Really Sucky, Hot Mess of a Wedding
AuthorToni McGee Causey
Bobbie Faye Sumrall, Cajun Contraband Days Queen, gun expert, and ultimate professional in being in the wrong place at the wrong time, absolutely positively does not want to go through with the ridiculous wedding that Trevor’s forcing her to agree to, but she soon finds out she has more important...
Mog and Bunny
AuthorJudith Kerr
ISBN0007171307
Mog, that adorably plump, somewhat befuddled cat who first appeared in Judith Kerr's Mog the Forgetful Cat , is back in this charming story, which details her devotion to her stuffed toy, Bunny. From the time that Bunny is first given to her, Mog keeps her leporine friend close by, playing with him,...
Kiss The Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs In Vietnam
AuthorMonika Jensen-Stevenson
ISBN0525249346
I alternated between feeling angry and feeling a terrible sense of injustice and sadness.
Written by a previous 60 minutes producer, Kiss the Boys Goodbye is a suberb and in depth look at a story no one wanted told, a story that people would do almost anything to supress, and others would sacrifice...
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