The Door in the Tree
10 best books like The Door in the Tree (William Corlett): The Ridge, Sappho's Leap, Half of the Human Race, The Monster Garden, The Shadow Guests, Thunder Oak, Sarah's Story, The Switch, The Children of Cherry Tree Farm, Nicobobinus
The Ridge
| Author | Carmen-Shea Hepburn |
Set in Amanzimtoti, South Africa, the story follows Wayne du Preez as he starts his matric. Completing his final year of high school won’t be his only problem, however, when a boy from his childhood makes a surprise reappearance...
Sappho's Leap
| Author | Erica Jong |
| Author | Anthony Quinn |
| ISBN | 0224087290 |
Spanning a nine year period, this opens...
| Author | Vivien Alcock |
| ISBN | 0618003371 |
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| Author | Garry Kilworth |
| ISBN | 0552545465 |
It's certainly...
| Author | Ruth Elwin Harris |
| ISBN | 0763617075 |
Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s -- and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister's eyes.
The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. Their...
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
When spoiled rich kid, Tad Spencer, thoughtlessly wishes that he was someone else he learns the hard way that money isn't everything. Going to bed as wealthy Tad and waking up as the poor and criminally inclined Bob is a shock to him but he does...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0006904653 |
So of course when Uncle Tim tells them about Tammylan, the wild man who lives out of doors and knows all about the animals and birds, they decide to look for him. Once they meet him all sorts...
| Author | Terry Jones |
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0380791358 |
| Author | Stuart Evers |
| ISBN | 0330525158 |
..Ok, a bit of a gimmick, but this bloke can write. All the stories feature smoking - the last one is about Raymond Carver's...
| Author | Mark R. Williams |
| ISBN | 8489954135 |
| Author | Gillian Cross |
| ISBN | 0140323120 |
The Prime Minister's Brain, first published in 1985 by Puffin Books is another of our Kid-Lit books with a bit of history behind it. It's the follow up to The Demon Headmaster which Chrissi and I reviewed in our Kid Lit challenge last year and was also one of our favourite...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0761315446 |
This discovery came at 4 weeks old when Laura,...
| Author | Norah McClintock |
| Author | Ralph C. Wood |
| ISBN | 0664226108 |
| Author | Celia Rees |
| ISBN | 0439982324 |
I've pretty much lost count of how many times I've read this book. I still remember the first time I read it. I was twelve years old, in maths, and we were doing a statistics exercise about word count and letter count in books. I picked this...
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 0198319673 |
Legacy
| Author | Thomas A. Knight |
| ISBN | 0986843733 |
...a warrior of light defeated an insane wizard, but behind every heroic story lies a truth never told.
A man washes ashore on the island of Arda after a terrible storm, remembering nothing but his name: Krycin. The blue wizard Gladius finds him, takes him in, and...
| Author | B.B. |
| ISBN | 0192792040 |
They are told that The Folly, the little brook near their home is drying up and they decide to leave their home.
The book is the story of their adventures.
I read this...
| Author | Annie Dalton |
| ISBN | 0007161409 |
| Author | Todd Strasser |
| ISBN | 0590679104 |
2. Oct 19 / 30 minutes, Oct 20 / 45 minutes
3. board game / four children / animals / jangle
4. a) This is a book which turned the movie into the novel. The story is about a board game called "Jumanji". It is terrible game that was buried in the ground in 1869. The things...