The Door in the Forest

10 best books like The Door in the Forest (Roderick Townley): A Boy and His Bot, The Mongolian Wizard, What the Dog Said, The Cats in the Doll Shop, The Silver Bowl, Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein, The Grand Plan to Fix Everything, As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President!, The Wednesdays, Dark Revelation

AuthorDaniel H. Wilson
When young Code falls down a hole while following a mysterious robotic insect, he lands in a world that defies all imagination. Everything in Mekhos is made from metal and circuitry, including the citizens-who happen to be robots. To find his way home, Code must first cross Mekhos's bizarre and dangerous...
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1466823186
Review first posted at Fantasy Literature:

"The Mongolian Wizard" is the first story in a series of an alternative late 19th century Europe inhabited by wizards and magical creatures. (The author is up to nine of these short stories now, all available at Tor.com).

Junior Lieutenant...
AuthorRandi Reisfeld
Ever since her police officer father was killed a few months ago, Grace Abernathy hasn't wanted to do much of anything. She's pulled away from her friends, her grades are plummeting . . . it's a problem. The last thing Grace wants is to be dragged into her older sister Regan's plan to train a shelter dog as...
AuthorYona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN0670012793
When Anna spots a cat in the yard behind her parents' doll shop, she is excited. Then she realizes the cat is about to have kittens--even better! And Anna has something else to look forward to: her cousin Tania is coming from Russia to stay with Anna's family. Anna already has two sisters, but she and Tania...
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0061575437
Unwanted at home, Molly goes to work for the king of Westria as a humble scullery maid. She arrives at the castle with no education, no manners, and a very disturbing secret: She sees visions, and those visions always come true.

One day, while she's working in the king's great hall, young Prince...
AuthorSusan Goldman Rubin
ISBN1580893449
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
AuthorUma Krishnaswami
Rose petal milk shakes and a world of surprises awaits Dini when her family moves to India in this spirited novel with Bollywood flair.

Eleven-year old Dini loves movies—watching them, reading about them, trying to write her own—especially those oh-so-fabulous Bollywood movies where...
AuthorDonna Gephart
ISBN0385734816
As if being 12 3/4 isn’t bad enough, Vanessa Rothrock’s mother is running for president and it’s ruining her life. Isn’t it enough that her enormous feet trip her up all the time, even on stage during the school spelling bee? Isn’t it enough that Reginald Trumball, love of Vanessa’s pathetic...
AuthorJulie Bourbeau
ISBN0375868909
Mystery, magic, mischief and monsters abound in this slightly fantastical story of a human kid who wants to stay that way. Perfect for fans of Ransom Riggs and Maryrose Wood.

Max’s village is absolutely normal in every single way and on every single day—except Wednesday. Most of the townsfolk...
AuthorS.E. Myers
Ryleigh Simmons just turned 17. After losing her parents in a fatal accident, Ryleigh moves in with an aunt she was unaware of and is introduced to family she never knew existed. With the knowledge that she is a descendant of the Fae, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the assistance of Tristan...
In Dog Years I'd be Dead: Garfield at 25
AuthorJim Davis
ISBN0345452046
Experience twenty-five years of the furry phenomenon known as Garfield with this fun, in-depth, and lavishly illustrated book.

Jim Davis’s grandfather, James A. Garfield Davis, was a big, cantankerous, outspoken man. Garfield is a big, cantankerous, outspoken cat. Coincidence? Of...
AuthorChristine Russell
OH MY GRASS!

When Sal the sheep is bonked on the head by an unidentified falling object, it can only mean one thing: Lord Aries, the Sheep of all Sheepdom is in trouble, and the sheep posse must save him.

Little do the sheep know that the mysterious object is actually a cell phone dropped...
AuthorAmar'e Stoudemire
ISBN0545387590
STAT: Standing Tall And Talented-- A slam-dunk new fiction series from NBA superstar Amar'e Stoudemire!

Eleven-year-old Amar'e Stoudemire has a lot going on. He loves to go skateboarding in the park. He takes his school work very seriously. He helps out with his dad's landscaping company....
AuthorRosanne Parry
ISBN0375961968
The author of Heart of a Shepherd offers another sensitive portrayal of military families, this time stationed abroad, in the city of Berlin at that historic time just after the Wall came down.

When 13-year-old Jody and her friends save a badly beaten Russian soldier from drowning, they put...
AuthorRuth Chew
ISBN0590098403
This may be the first Ruth Chew book I ever read. I think I got it some time between 2nd and 4th grade from one of those grade school book order sheets that were given out at my school from time to time.

My sister and I were both mildly obsessed with the witch books Ruth Chew wrote, me first because I was...
AuthorKathryn Erskine
ISBN0399255052
Mike tries so hard to please his father, but the only language his dad seems to speak is calculus. And for a boy with a math learning disability, nothing could be more difficult. When his dad sends him to live with distant relatives in rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project,...
AuthorJennifer Lynn Barnes
LILAH KNOWS THE rules better than anyone, but between her newfound visions, an absolutely fatal attraction to a boy who isn't real, and the threat of a supernatural enemy with a sting deadlier than any Queen Bee, it's going to take everything she has to stay on top at Emory. And to prove once and for all that...
AuthorSusan Richards Shreve
ISBN0439680492
Can the right pair of shoes make "anyone" feel beautiful?Franny is constantly embarrassed by two things in her life. One is her right foot, which curls in from a birth defect, so she has to wear ugly, heavy orthopedic shoes. And the other is her mother Margaret: beautiful, extravagant, flamboyant --...
AuthorJack D. Ferraiolo
ISBN0810970678
Snappy, pulp-inspired noir set in the mean hallways of middle school, from an exciting debut author.
 
The treacherous, hormone-soaked hallways of Franklin Middle School are the setting for this sharp, funny noir novel about tough guys and even tougher girls. “The Frank” is in the clutches...
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN1441863281
School is hard enough, but when you're misfits on a mission, you're really put to the test. The re-launch of a popular middle-grade series by Walter Dean Myers.



Zander and his crew are underdogs at DaVinci Academy, one of the best Gifted and Talented schools in Harlem. But even these...
AuthorCarolyn McSparren
ISBN0967303583
In 1960, Memphis debutante Margaret McLain defies conservative Southern society by entering veterinary school. Soon young Dr. Maggie McLain finds herself battling for respect among the farmers, pet owners, and livestock breeders of western Tennessee, while also juggling marriage, kids, and...
AuthorE.G. Foley
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men…and Gingerbread Men?!

After his harsh beginnings as a rough-and-tumble orphan on the streets of London, Jake Everton takes his rightful place as the long-lost heir of an aristocratic family with magical powers – his personal quest, to follow in his slain...
AuthorPatrick Jennings
ISBN0060821140
I am a snake.
No, not a rattlesnake. I just look like one. I'm a gopher snake.
One day an oily, filthy, fleshy human child crossed my path. As luck would have it, he knew the difference between a gopher snake and a rattlesnake. He has imprisoned me in a terrarium. His name is Gunnar. He calls me Crusher....
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