The House on Durrow Street
10 best books like The House on Durrow Street (Galen Beckett): In the Hand of the Goddess, More All-of-a-Kind Family, Turning Darkness Into Light, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, A Scholar of Magics, Cold Welcome, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, Katie John, Dancing Shoes, Baby Island
In the Hand of the Goddess
| Author | Tamora Pierce |
| ISBN | 0689878567 |
Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire, to none other than the prince of the realm. But Prince Jonathan is much more to Alanna; he is her ally, her best friend, and one of the few who knows that she's really a girl. Now it will take all of Alanna's awesome skill, strength, and growing magical...
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093100 |
In the third book of Sydney Taylor's classic children's series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters-Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie-and little brother, Charlie, living at the turn of the century in...
Turning Darkness Into Light
| Author | Marie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0765377616 |
As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study.
When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0690138768 |
Three of a Kind
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.They...
| Author | Caroline Stevermer |
| ISBN | 0765353466 |
Glasscastle University--on the surface, one of the most peaceful places in England. But underneath, its magic is ancient and dangerous…
American Samuel Lambert, sharpshooter, adventurer, late of the Wyoming plains and Kiowa Bob's Wild West Show, has been invited to Glasscastle University...
Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence.
Summoned to the home planet of her family’s business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142403202 |
Firebirds is more than simply an anthology -- it is a celebration of wonderful writing. It gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize -- from the National Book Award to the World Fantasy...
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0060209518 |
Ten-year-old Katie John Tucker did not look forward to the summer she and her parents were to spend in the enormous old house in the small southern town. She hadn't wanted to leave her friends, and she wished that fall would come quickly.But in spite of all her gloomy predictions, Katie John had a wonderful...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0340626631 |
Wintle's Little Wonders
When Cora Wintle goes to pick up her orphaned niece, Rachel, she discovers that Rachel's adopted sister, Hilary, would be perfect for her dancing troupe. The only problem is that Hilary might be as good as her own precious daughter, Dulcie. Still, she's determined to take...
| Author | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| ISBN | 0689717512 |
My wife read this book to me while I was driving on a roadtrip. Her mom had found her childhood copy and sent it to her. It has to be one of the most awesomely bad books ever written. It's intended for children of course, but that doesn't make it any less terrible. It's some screwy adventure tale of two young...
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.
Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries....
| Author | Charles de Lint |
| ISBN | 0142401587 |
Charles de Lint's remarkable novels and shorter fiction are, in a very real sense, coming of age stories. Here, for the first time, is a collection of his stories about teenagers&150a collection for teen and adult readers alike. From the streets of his famed Newford to the alleys of Bordertown to...
| Author | Diane Duane |
| ISBN | 0152055037 |
To give Nita a vacation from magic--and to separate her from Kit, her partner in wizardry--Nita's parents pack her off for a monthlong stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland.
But the Old World is even more steeped in magical doings than the United States, and Nita soon finds herself and a host...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0142403229 |
Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel...
Disturbing. Haunting. Deliciously creepy. The illustrations are beautiful (although now likely to give me nightmares for the foreseeable future) and perfectly fit alongside the sparse text to give off an aura of confusion and terror.
Perhaps not the best thing to read on my own in the dark...
