The Hollow Tree
10 best books like The Hollow Tree (Janet Lunn): Perelandra, The Story Girl, There Will Be Wolves, The Wednesday Witch, Freddy the Detective, Rocco, That Scatterbrain Booky, Sanctuary, The Serpent Awakes, Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English: Bilingual Spanish-English
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007157169 |
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil...
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1576463214 |
Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for the summer, they, too, are captivated...
| Author | Karleen Bradford |
| ISBN | 0140383719 |
Ursula is different. With her book learning and outspoken manner, she doesn't fit in, and her spirited way's get her into trouble. When a neighbor accuses her of being a witch, her only hope to save herself is to march in the holy People's Crusade to Jerusalem. Along with thousands of other pilgrims, Ursula...
| Author | Ruth Chew |
| ISBN | 0786825987 |
I had only vague but happy memories of reading this book as a little girl, remembering the slightly incompetent witch who rode a vacuum cleaner instead of a broom and her talking black cat who helped a little girl with her homework. Rereading this as an adult was a pleasure, though the story is certainly...
Reading this book hot on the tail of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair was just a confirmation of the magical pleasure that can be found in books. One minute, I can be sitting with Nina Sankovitch in her smelly purple chair, thinking deep thoughts about the meaning of life and the things that give it substance,...
| Author | Sherryl Jordan |
| ISBN | 1869435842 |
Rocco has suddenly appeared in a different time and in an unknown location - in the valley Anshur, where he's taken in by a primitive tribe, whose members live closely connected to nature. He is challenged in everything he knows and all his abilities - in everything he brings with him from his usual, modern...
| Author | Bernice Thurman Hunter |
| ISBN | 0590710826 |
Booky didn't know much about the reasons for the Great Depression. All she knew was that she was hungry all the time, that her parents fought constantly, that the bailiff would soon return to evict her family from their home. Worst of all, she knew that Christmas would be a time of empty stockings instead...
| Author | Melissa Marr |
| ISBN | 0061493546 |
The world of Melissa Mar's New York Times bestselling dark fantasy series Wicked Lovely comes to manga! This three-volume series focuses on Rika, a minor character in Wicked Lovely: formerly a mortal, formerly a Winter Girl, and formerly loved by the Summer King.
The dry, near-empty desert...
| Author | Allan Frewin Jones |
| ISBN | 0061456942 |
Tania was living an ordinary life in the Mortal World until her sixteenth birthday, when she discovered that she was the long-lost princess of the Royal House of Faerie, daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania. As the only Faerie who possesses the ability to walk between the Immortal and Mortal Worlds,...
| Author | Alma Flor Ada |
| ISBN | 0688170676 |
In simple words and sun-drenched paintings, Alma Flor Ada and Simón Silva take us into the fields and orchards, and into the lives of the people who work them. Simple poems in Spanish and English, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet, describe the wonder of the vegetable and fruit farms. Together,...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0670875937 |
An inspiring story of self discovery. In Jean Little's first historical novel, Elspet Mary, a young Scottish orphan, embarks on the journey of a lifetime when she emigrates with relatives to Canada in the 1840s. Her struggle to make a place for herself, not only in her adoptive family but in her new home...
Small Miracles: Extraordinary Coincidences from Everyday Life
| Author | Yitta Halberstam |
| ISBN | 1558506462 |
Have you ever experienced a moment when a seemingly random event also seemed strangely meaningful, or even miraculous? Whether it was as simple as anticipating a phone call, or as dramatic as rekindling a lost love, what you experienced may be more significant than you thought. It may be nothing less...
