The Death-Defying Pepper Roux
10 best books like The Death-Defying Pepper Roux (Geraldine McCaughrean): Gingerbread, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, Disney After Dark, Loki's Wolves, The Planet Thieves, Dead End in Norvelt, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster, The Wizard of Dark Street, Odin's Ravens, Sugar Money
| Author | Helen Oyeyemi |
| ISBN | 1984882899 |
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's...
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
| Author | Liz Jensen |
| ISBN | 1582344574 |
Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And...
| Author | Ridley Pearson |
| ISBN | 0786854448 |
In this fantastical novel, Disney's Magic Kingdom suddenly becomes a bit eerie. Finn Whitman and four other teens have been hired as Disney World guides, but with an odd twist: With cutting-edge technology, they have been transformed into hologram projections capable of leading guests around the...
| Author | K.L. Armstrong |
| ISBN | 1907411305 |
In Viking times, Norse myths predicted the end of the world, an event called Ragnarok, that only the gods can stop. When this apocalypse happens, the gods must battle the monsters--wolves the size of the sun, serpents that span the seabeds, all bent on destroying the world.
The gods died a long...
| Author | Dan Krokos |
| ISBN | 0765334283 |
The Planet Thieves is the first thrilling installment of a new middle-grade series by Dan Krokos.
Two weeks ago, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and seventeen of his fellow cadets from the Academy for Earth Space Command boarded the SS Egypt. The trip was supposed to be a short routine voyage...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0374379939 |
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid...
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 | Shawn Thomas Odyssey |
| ISBN | 1606841432 |
Oona Crate was born to be the Wizard’s apprentice, but she has another destiny in mind. Despite possessing the rare gift of natural magic, Oona wants to be a detective.
Eager for a case to prove herself, she wants to show her uncle—the Wizard of Dark Street—that logic is as powerful as magic....
| Author | K.L. Armstrong |
| ISBN | 1907411313 |
Seven kids, Thor's hammer, and a whole lot of Valkyries are the only things standing against the end of the world.
When thirteen-year-old Matt Thorsen, a modern day descendant of the Norse god Thor, was chosen to represent Thor in an epic battle to prevent the apocalypse he thought he knew how...
| Author | Jane Harris |
| ISBN | 0571336922 |
Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely...
| Author | Genki Kawamura |
| ISBN | 4838725027 |
‘Like love,life is beautiful
because it has to end ‘
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love,of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life.
Our narrator’s days are numbered.
Estranged from his family,living alone with...
In the tradition of funny and heartwarming bestsellers like Wonder and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, this is the story of a sickly boy whose life is turned upside down when he gets a therapy dog…who can talk!
Benji Wendell Barnsworth is a small ten-year-old boy with a big personality. Born...
| Author | Daniel José Older |
| ISBN | 1338268848 |
Magdalys and the squad are flying south on pteroback. South to rescue her older brother. South to war.
The squad links up with the dino-mounted troops of the Louisiana Native Guard, an all-black regiment in the Union Army fighting to free their people. They're led by General Sheridan, surrounded...
| Author | Alex Milway |
| ISBN | 0316024546 |
In Emiline's world, there are thousands of species of mice, some rarer than others. Mousehunters travel the world collecting the rarest and most special breeds, from the wily and deadly Sharpclaw Mouse to the dog-sized Elephant Mouse and the quick-as-lightning Comet Mouse.
For Emiline, a mousekeeper...
Furious Jones and the Assassin's Secret
| Author | Tim Kehoe |
| ISBN | 1442473371 |
When his dad's book turns out to contain deadly secrets, twelve-year-old Furious Jones is thrust into a web of mystery and danger in this gripping page-turner.
Furious Jones, the twelve-year-old son of a famous thriller writer, lives with his grandfather after his mother was mysteriously...
| Author | Dianne K. Salerni |
| ISBN | 0062272233 |
The battle between Kin and Transitioners that's been brewing for centuries has finally come to a head. The sinister Kin have captured Evangeline's younger sister, Addie, a descendant of Merlin whose presence will allow them to reverse the Eighth Day Spell and free themselves. Addie doesn't realize...
Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #1
| Author | Johnny Marciano |
| ISBN | 1524787205 |
Klawde is not your average cat. He's an emperor from another planet, exiled to Earth. He's cruel. He's cunning. He's brilliant... and he's about to become Raj Banerjee's best friend. Whether he likes it or not.
Klawde had everything. Sharp claws. Fine fur. And, being the High Commander of the...
For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets out with a group of misfit friends on a quest to find him. But space is...
