The Charlatan's Boy
10 best books like The Charlatan's Boy (Jonathan Rogers): 100 Cupboards, Half Magic, The Neptune Project, North! or Be Eaten, Lone Wolf, Ember Falls, Ember Rising, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster, Steel, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic
| Author | N.D. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0375838813 |
Twelve-year-old Henry York is going to sleep one night when he hears a bump on the attic wall above his head. It's an unfamiliar house—Henry is staying with his aunt, uncle, and three cousins—so he tries to ignore it. But the next night he wakes up with bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152020683 |
Would you believe I grew up in Toledo, Ohio and never noticed while reading and re-reading this that it was set in my hometown? It's true. I don't know if I just figured ALL books were set there, and that's why the street names were so familiar or if I was just extraordinarily clueless. I figured it out finally...
| Author | Polly Holyoke |
| ISBN | 1423157567 |
With her weak eyes and useless lungs that often leave her gasping for air, Nere feels more at home swimming with the dolphins her mother studies than she does hanging out with her classmates. Nere has never understood why she is so much more comfortable and confident in the water than on land until the day...
| Author | Andrew Peterson |
| ISBN | 1400073871 |
First they found themselves On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. Now they must make their way North! Or Be Eaten . . .
Janner, Tink, and Leeli Igiby thought they were normal children with normal lives and a normal past. But now they know they're really the Lost Jewels of Anniera, heirs to a legendary...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0545093104 |
I was really surprised that I didn't like this one. I had enjoyed what I had read of Lasky's Ga'hoole series, and I was expecting this to be comparable in quality to that.
There were two main issues I had with this book. The first one is that it is horribly dull. The beginning was very exciting, but...
| Author | S.D. Smith |
| ISBN | 0996436804 |
The stage is set. It's war. Morbin Blackhawk, slaver and tyrant, threatens to destroy the rabbit resistance forever. Heather and Picket are two young rabbits improbably thrust into pivotal roles.
The fragile alliance forged around the young heir seems certain to fail. Can Heather and Picket...
| Author | S.D. Smith |
| ISBN | 0999655329 |
*zips lips against spoilers* *realizes I won’t be able to speak at all* *unzips lips*
I’ll just have to try to keep the spoilers out because OH MY WORD I went into this blind and was repeatedly gobsmacked by the twists and turns and reveals. O.o. :D
The first 60% of the book was sooo...
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys"--orphans owned by chimney sweeps--to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived--and a girl. With her...
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0061547913 |
It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.
This was the tip of a rapier.
Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she...
| Author | Jennifer Trafton |
| ISBN | 0803733755 |
Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge leads (much to her chagrin) a very dull life on the Island at the Center of Everything . . . until the night she overhears a life-changing secret. It seems that Mount Majestic, the rising and falling mountain in the center of the island, is not a mountain at all-it's the belly...
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0689717091 |
From award-winning author Marguerite Henry comes a classic reference work about horses and their origins.
How did the Morgan horse get its name?
What are the differences between a Belgian and a Clydesdale?
Why are the Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian, and Godolphin Arabian so important?
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| Author | A.S. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0982621418 |
The long-awaited sequel and conclusion to A. S. Peterson's critically-acclaimed The Fiddler's Gun. Fin Button undertakes a perilous voyage to the Barbary Coast to aid the War for Independence and secure a pardon for herself and her men. But the journey will lead them through waters far darker than...
A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is determined to see the world. He leaves his family and cozy country home and sets off by train for the big city. What wonders await him: music, excitement, new friends...and cunning, carnivorous cats!
Silversides is the purring president of F.E.A.R....
| Author | Patricia St. John |
| ISBN | 0802465781 |
When Elaine leaves her home in London to stay with the Owen family in Wales, she feels miserable and left out. It's only the little secret garden that she finds at the end of the rainbow that makes staying there seem worthwhile. And then something happens that changes everything.
From Patricia...
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0310354978 |
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
