The Drackenberg Adventure
10 best books like The Drackenberg Adventure (Lloyd Alexander): Beast Keeper, Quartet in Autumn, The Fever, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, The Watcher in the Shadows, The Enormous Egg, Berlin, Lloyd Alexander, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology, Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story
| Author | Lucy Coats |
| ISBN | 0448461935 |
This is my new favorite beginning chapter book series. It is time to say goodbye to Magic Tree house. Demon is here to keep the animals well cared for, and to give the young reader a grand adventure. Pandemonium (Demon for short) is the half human son of the god Pan. On the day he meets his father, he is taken...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 0330326481 |
This was recommended to me by various bloggers and certainly lived up to their praise. Originally published in 1977, this was Pym’s seventh novel out of nine; she died in 1980. It’s about four London office workers, all sixty-somethings who are partnerless and don’t have, or at least don’t...
| Author | Megan Abbott |
| ISBN | 0316231053 |
In this impossible-to-put-down "panic attack of a novel," a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness.
Deenie Nash is a diligent student with a close-knit family; her brother Eli is a hockey star, and her father is a popular teacher. But when Deenie's best...
| Author | Keith Thomas |
| ISBN | 0195213602 |
Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this...
| Author | Chris Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0547466323 |
“A fabulously imaginative historical fantasy.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Inquisitor’s Apprentice
At the turn of the twentieth century, New York’s Bowery District becomes the scene of a terrible murder when the Klezmer King gets fried to a crisp by his Electric...
| Author | Oliver Butterworth |
| ISBN | 0316119202 |
Young Nate Twitchell is surprised when one of the hens on his family farm lays a giant egg. After a painstaking wait, Nate is even more surprised when it hatches and out pops a baby triceratops that he names Uncle Beazley! But when Nate decides to keep the dino and raise it on his own, he has no idea what he's...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1770463267 |
"If there was ever any doubt of a graphic novel’s ability to achieve a high level of storytelling, this book blows it away."—Newsday
"Astonishing in its scope, breadth and execution."—The Independent
Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through...
| Author | Jill P. May |
| ISBN | 0805747176 |
May's book provides useful insights into Alexander and his writing process, which is what I was hoping for. It examines his writings in light of his life, and describes both audience and critical responses to the books.
Although it sometimes feels somewhat dry and academic, the book held my...
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology
| Author | Dimitra Fimi |
| ISBN | 1137552816 |
Fantasy literature owes much of its imaginative power to myth, legend and folklore, often as recorded in European medieval literature. Some of the most successful texts of contemporary fantasy literature have turned to the 'Celtic' tradition, drawing inspiration from medieval Irish and Welsh...
Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295957 |
Times change for Samantha when she moves to New York City to live with Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia. They change for Nellie, Samantha's servant friend in Mount Bedford, too. But Nellie's changes aren't as happy as Samantha's and Nellie has to find work again. When her friend disappears, Samantha thinks...
| Author | Christopher G. Nuttall |
Years ago, Heart’s Eye, a school built on top of a nexus point, was attacked and captured by a necromancer. The nexus point was snuffed out, the handful of survivors forced to flee and the once-great school turned into a forward base for a necromantic invasion. All seemed lost, until Emily killed the...
| Author | Brandon Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0449818438 |
The shorter a Sanderson read is, the less impressed I am with myself if I figure out the twisty paths of that man's genius mind . . .
That being said, I GUESSED THE TWIST AGAIN!!! *gloats* *booty shakes*
Anyway, MITOSIS was a short entertaining story that gave just a (possible) hint more...
