The Children Star
10 best books like The Children Star (Joan Slonczewski): Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1, The Other, Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Deerskin, The Difference Engine, The Little Engine That Could, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child, George
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1569317143 |
Can a comic--a horror manga, in this case--creep you out or even scare you? You know movies can do it, such as Psycho or Halloween. Stephen King can do it. I like some of Joe Hill's work such as Locke and Key, and that works to unsettle me, but this is different, atmospheric, black and white. . . and creepy,...
| Author | Thomas Tryon |
| ISBN | 0440167361 |
Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.
Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable...
| Author | Harry Allard |
| ISBN | 0395401461 |
The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing through the air. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school.
So begins this quirky classic, first published in 1977 and still relevant today as a lighthearted reminder to show our...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441012396 |
As Princess Lissla Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her beauty she is the image of her dead mother, the queen. But this likeness forces her to flee from her father's lust and madness; and in the pain and horror of that flight she forgets who she is and what it is she flees from:...
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the...
The Little Engine That Could
| Author | Watty Piper |
| ISBN | 0448405202 |
When I was seven, my Mom used to read to us from this little book.
It was one of many books scattered atop our bright red plastic-‘n-steel tabletop, and she was cataloguing them for her new Public Library!
It was a bright red-letter year for us kids, too, that year - a real Book Bonanza.
And...
The Enigma of Amigara Fault
This is not a book but a loose chapter of Gyo: Volume 2.
The Enigma of Amigara Fault (Amigara means "Empty Shell") is a short story originally published along with the second volume of Junji Ito's Gyo, but has nothing to do with the story.
People are being unnaturally drawn into a mountainside...
| Author | Susan Wise Bauer |
| ISBN | 0393059278 |
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education—the trivium—which organizes learning around the maturing capacity...
| Author | Robert W. Sears |
| ISBN | 0316017507 |
With the spate of publicity surrounding the possible health risks posed by childhood immunization, parents are no longer simply following doctor's orders and automatically having their children vaccinated. Instead, they are asking questions. The problem is the search for answers only leads parents...
| Author | E.L. Konigsburg |
| ISBN | 1416949577 |
Who is George?
Only Howard Carr and his older brother, Ben, can answer that question, because only they know about George. George is the funny little man who lives inside Ben, helping him (mostly) navigate life as a sixth grader who happens to be a scientific genius and who happens to be studying organic...
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| ISBN | 0262527138 |
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, "How to Write...
