The Jamie Drake Equation
10 best books like The Jamie Drake Equation (Christopher Edge): Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, The House with Chicken Legs, Beetle Boy, The Boy At the Back of the Class, Brightstorm, Who Let the Gods Out?, The Island at the End of Everything, The Nowhere Emporium, The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery, WildSpark
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
| Author | Katherine Rundell |
| ISBN | 1526610078 |
Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new...
The House with Chicken Legs
| Author | Sophie Anderson |
| ISBN | 1474940668 |
All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with.
But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian...
The glorious start to a middle-grade trilogy about a brilliant boy, his loyal friends, and some amazingly intelligent beetles that brings together adventure, humor, and real science!
Darkus Cuttle's dad mysteriously goes missing from his job as Director of Science at the Natural History...
The Boy At the Back of the Class
There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it.
He's eight years old (just like me), but he's very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn't like sweets - not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite!
But the truth is, Ahmet...
Twins Arthur and Maudie receive word in Lontown that their famous explorer father died in a failed attempt to reach South Polaris. Not only that, but he has been accused of trying to steal fuel from his competitors before he died! The twins don't believe the news, and they answer an ad to help crew a new exploration...
Elliot's mum is ill and his home is under threat, but a shooting star crashes to earth and changes his life forever. The star is Virgo - a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. But the pair accidentally release Thanatos, a wicked death daemon imprisoned beneath Stonehenge, and must then turn to the old Olympian...
The Island at the End of Everything
| Author | Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
| ISBN | 1910002763 |
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards 2017
From the author of the bestselling tale The Girl of Ink & Stars comes a beautiful new adventure about finding your way home.
There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans...
| Author | Ross MacKenzie |
| ISBN | 1782501258 |
When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the 'shop from nowhere' -- and its owner, Mr Silver -- draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment. Recruited as Mr Silver's apprentice, Daniel learns...
The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery
A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to...
| Author | Vashti Hardy |
| ISBN | 1407191551 |
A year after the death of her older brother, Prue Haywood's family is still shattered by grief. But everything changes when a stranger arrives at the farm. A new, incredible technology has been discovered in the city of Medlock, where a secretive guild of inventors have developed a way to capture spirits...
| Author | Kieran Larwood |
| ISBN | 0571328407 |
A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills some call the Razorback Downs...
Podkin One-Ear is a legend: a fearsome warrior rabbit whose reputation for cunning and triumph in battle has travelled the ages. But how did he become such a mighty fighter? The answer may surprise...
