The Dollmage
10 best books like The Dollmage (Martine Leavitt): The Isis Pedlar, Questionable Content, Vol. 3, A Thief in the House of Memory, The Magic Circle, Jumped, Damage, Hanging on to Max, Split Image, Gringolandia, Head Case
| Author | Monica Hughes |
| ISBN | 0887765106 |
Michael Joseph Flynn has devious plans to cheat and corrupt the inhabitants of the planet Isis, and he appears to be on the verge of success. Few among the planet’s simple agricultural community can resist his magic firestone, his strangely delicious Ambrosia, and the Forever Machine. Only Flynn’s...
My Great Questionable Content Binge continues with the third collection of the slice-of-life webcomic. So Marten and Dora have become a couple, but it's interesting to see just how early that Dora's insecurity over the situation raised its head. I had forgotten about that, from when I was reading it...
| Author | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| ISBN | 0374374783 |
Family secrets, forgotten memories, and the transforming power of truth
It's been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present, he's avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0140374396 |
From the author of Zel, Stones in Water, and The Prince of the Pond.
Deep in the woods lives the old witch called Ugly One. All she wants is to forget—that she was once a loving mother and a healer, blessed and powerful within her magic circle, and not a witch, claimed by the devils. Then one day...
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0060760915 |
The wrong angle Trina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely moves. The others, her girls, step aside. It's okay if they don't speak. I know how it is. They can't all be Trina. Dominique: Some stupid little flit cuts right in between us and is like, "Hey." Like...
| Author | A.M. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0060290994 |
I was surprised by how well the second person narrative fit this novel, considering I'd never really seen it done well before. The book tells the story of a high school senior struggling with depression and his relationship with a girl whose father has committed suicide. While the main character, Austin,...
| Author | Margaret Bechard |
| ISBN | 0689862687 |
Sam's girlfriend is pregnant but Sam is keeping the baby. Sam should be planning for college and trying out for the football team with his best friend, Andy. Instead he's up to his ears in diapers and formula, caring for his baby son, Max. Will Sam now have to make a gut-wrenching decision about Max's...
| Author | Mel Glenn |
| ISBN | 0060004819 |
Everyone has an image of Laura Li, the most popular girl in school: “stone hearted,” “warmhearted,” “conceited deceiver,” “humble achiever,” “a virgin,” “the hottest girl in the world.”
Award-winning poet Mel Glenn weaves a brilliant web of authentic voices...
| Author | Lyn Miller-Lachmann |
| ISBN | 1931896496 |
Daniel’s papá, Marcelo, used to play soccer, dance the cueca, and drive his kids to school in a beat-up green taxi—all while publishing an underground newspaper that exposed Chile’s military regime.After papá’s arrest in 1980, Daniel’s family fled to the United States. Now Daniel has...
| Author | Sarah Aronson |
| ISBN | 1596432144 |
ONE MISTAKE. ONE BAD NIGHT. ONE TOO MANY DRINKS. A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and got into the car. Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it's his fault. He was drinking. He was driving. Now Frank can't...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
The end of the world is a busy time if you mean to outlive it.
So says Timna—sole daughter of Noah—as she and her family prepare to face the flood that will cleanse the Earth. But during the forty days and nights before the waters recede, the inhabitants of the Ark experience more than just a...
| Author | Gayle Friesen |
| ISBN | 1550744631 |
Fourteen-year-old Claire and her mother, Jane, are on their way across the country to visit Claire's grandmother. As they approach the family farm, Claire watches her mother become more and more anxious. Until now, she thought they had an open relationship with a healthy respect for each other's privacy....
Hellish Nightmare.
If Seth Bradson were to describe his life, those would be the two words he would choose. Preferring to cope with his crappy existence and horrible home life by spending his days in a drug-induced haze, Seth coasts through life. Until the moment his path crosses with Ali Carson....
| Author | Adam Rapp |
| ISBN | 0763653373 |
Printz Honor-winning author Adam Rapp spins a raw, gripping, and ultimately redemptive story about three disaffected teens and a kidnapped child.
Three teenagers - a sharp, well-to-do girl named Bounce and two struggling boys named Wiggins and Orange - are holding a four-yearold girl hostage...
| Author | Teresa Toten |
| ISBN | 0889952329 |
"Governor General's Literary Awards nominee for Children's Literature, Text" Dani Webster had played The Game with her sister, Kelly, for as long as she could remember. It was a secret quest to vanquish evil. The Game is now a hazy memory as Dani looks up from the floor of the isolation room at Riverwood...
That Is That: Essays About True Nature is a collection of articles and answers to questions posed by spiritual seekers. It captures the essence of spiritual inquiry and provides the reader with a real transmission of Presence on every page. It is much more than an exposition about our true nature as infinite...
| Author | Burton Silver |
| ISBN | 0811824152 |
While researching their groundbreaking book, Why Cats Paint, Burton Silver and Heather Busch uncovered another phenomenon that seemed to merit further investigation: people who dance with their cats, or, more accurately, cats who dance with their people. It turns out that thousands of people today...
| Author | Leander Watts |
| ISBN | 0618594434 |
Relly’s band is called Scorpio Bone. Screaming guitars, crusher drums, and a singer who looks like a golden god. Along comes a girl named Zee, with a bass guitar, a notebook full of strange lyrics, and exactly the right attitude.
At the first practice, it all comes together. And Relly’s...
| Author | Kathi Appelt |
| ISBN | 0688161677 |
The Bat Jamboree was held early this year, at the old drive-in movie not too far from here. It was standing room only as the houselights went down. The spotlight came up -- there wasn't a sound! Then:
1 bat sang.2 bats flapped. 3 bats cha-cha-ed4 bats tapped.
Every year a troupe...
| Author | Tohru Kousaka |
| ISBN | 2849657220 |
This may very well the craziest volume thus far and that is, of course, saying a lot. Starting from the cover the reader gets to see something that is actually rather rare in BL: signs of actual physical violence. Okane has been playing with the shackles/handcuff motif from the very start but this is the...
| Author | Shelley Tanaka |
| ISBN | 0810970953 |
The ever-fascinating story of the legendary pilot is given new life in this vividly told true-life adventure.
Ever since Amelia Earhart and her plane disappeared on July 2, 1937, people have wanted to know more about this remarkable woman. Amelia Earhart follows the charismatic...
