The City of Gold and Lead
10 best books like The City of Gold and Lead (John Christopher): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Children of the Dust, Meridian, Vol. 1: Flying Solo, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, Star Ka'at, The Runaway Robot, The Keeper of the Isis Light, This Time of Darkness, Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot, The Boy Who Reversed Himself
| Author | J.K. Rowling |
| ISBN | 0545010225 |
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.
The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing...
| Author | Louise Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0099433427 |
After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.
Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad,...
| Author | Barbara Randall Kesel |
| ISBN | 1931484031 |
Meridian is the story of Sephie, a sheltered young
girl whose life resembles nothing so much as a fairy tale. The beloved only
child of the Minister of Meridian, she grows up with an entire floating city
as her playground. Then her father dies, and she inherits a sigil imbued
with the...
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
| ISBN | 0316125407 |
David and Chuck, two young boys living in California, build a backyard spaceship and jet off to the Mushroom Planet to help save that world, with the help of a rather strange but engagingly enthusiastic scientist in their town. Basidium, the so-called Mushroom Planet (because of, yes, all the giant...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0340247169 |
This book exceeded expectations. I'm hoping some day to read everything Andre Norton signed her name to. This book has a co-writer, meaning the co-writer probably actually wrote the book, and it is marketed as children's literature--two minuses.
Where the book surprised was that both the...
"We're returning to earth," Paul's father tells him. Paul is wildly excited, for all human beings on the planet Ganymede dream of going back to Earth some day. Then Paul finds out that he cannot take his robot Rex with him. Rex has been his constant companion for sixteen years. Leave him behind? Never!
So...
| Author | Monica Hughes |
| ISBN | 0689833903 |
It was her tenth birthday on Isis. By Earth years, she would be sixteen. But Olwen Pendennis had never been to Earth. She had been born on Isis. And since her parents' death, she had lived there alone, manning the Isis Light -- a "lighthouse" in space designed to aid ships, and to bring settlers from Earth....
| Author | Helen Mary Hoover |
| ISBN | 0765345676 |
This is one of my all time favorite books. I probably read it at least once a year.
This is set in the future, where EVERYONE lives in the City. "The City is old" is something that is said often.
I loved it cause it was dirty and gritty, and people were weird and creepy. It was like Logan's Run...
| Author | Janet Asimov |
| ISBN | 0802764959 |
I've noticed a trend that I find somewhat alarming. Sometimes, when people write books for young audiences, they ignore the usual rules of good fiction writing - including quality characterization, continuity, solid narrative through-lines, raising the stakes, etc. Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0140389652 |
When Laura finds her homework in her locker with its writing reversed, she's baffled, until she learns an unbelievable secret: her weird neighbor, Omar, has the ability to travel to the fourth dimension. Laura forces him to take her there, and then, a novice in "four-space", she goes there on her own....
Children of the Star trilogy, Book One. Noren knew that his world was not as it should be—it was wrong that only the Scholars and Technicians could use metal and Machines. It was wrong that only they had access to the knowledge hidden in the mysterious City. He was a heretic. He defied the High Law and had...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0595370306 |
Eight-year-old Teera finds herself above the powerful Root that keeps her Erdling community captive underground. The Erdlings are feared and despised by the Kindar people who live in the massive trees above. Raamo and Neric, two young Kindar discover Teera and for reasons of their own decide to keep...
| Author | Frank Bonham |
| ISBN | 0590338471 |
Brian's sister and mother vanished without a trace over a year ago. It was not uncommon. People were disappearing everywhere. To Brian, life had become a frightening madness. He knows that in another two years the planet will be unable to support life.
Now suddenly, his father is gone. Fighting...
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0345258053 |
Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important,...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0553240706 |
This is one of those frustrating books that has interesting bits sprinkled through a not so interesting bulk. Just enough that each time I thought I would quit some clever detail or promising plot development would keep me reading. After the halfway point, I started skipping all the long infomonologues...
| Author | Douglas Arthur Hill |
I came across a book titled Dag van die Sterrewind which I recalled from my childhood days. What I didn't know way back then is that it is just a translated version of Day of the Starwind and that it is, in fact, book three in a series of four. I'm not sure why the other three instalments weren't translated into...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0450032604 |
THOSE WHO WATCH is the strange, seductive novel of three inadvertent colonists from outer space whose accidental encounter with Earth triggers interplanetary conflict. It also the most unusual love story ever written.
VORNEEN—the seducer, in the shell of an Apollo who came out of nowhere...
