The Key
10 best books like The Key (Michael Grant): Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath, Thor's Wedding Day: By Thialfi, the goat boy, as told to and translated by Bruce Coville, Dull Boy, A Stir of Bones, Snow-Walker, The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons, Time's Daughter, Rescuing Seneca Crane, The Magician's Bird, A Box of Gargoyles
Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath
Jade begins her summer confused. Yes, there's that whole "will this be a leg-day or a tail-day" kind of confusion, but Jade's got even bigger problems: it's been three weeks since Mom returned to the ocean with no news of her whereabouts. Plus, it's been twenty-one days since Jade first kissed her mer-boy...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0152014551 |
What could possibly make Thor--the massive and mighty god of thunder and protector of all his people--put on a bridal gown?
It all begins when the source of Thor's power, his beloved hammer, is stolen. Unfortunately for Thor, the plan to get it back requires that he dress in fancy finery and be...
| Author | Sarah Cross |
| ISBN | 0525421335 |
What do you do if you can deadlift a car, and you spend your nights flying to get away from it all?
If you're fifteen-year-old Avery Pirzwick, you keep that information to yourself. When you're a former jock turned freak, you can't afford to let the secret slip. But then Avery makes some friends...
| Author | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
A Stir of Bones is the stand-alone prequel to acclaimed fantasist Nina Hoffman's award-winning adult novels A Red Heart of Memories and Past the Size of Dreaming. It is every bit as remarkable, warm, and heartwrenching.
Fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom seems to have a charmed life -- she's...
| Author | Catherine Fisher |
| ISBN | 0060724765 |
This trilogy brings together in one volume the three spell-binding titles in the Snow-walker sequence; The Snow-walker's Son, The Empty Hand, and The Soul Thieves.
From the swirling mists and icy depths beyond the edge of the world came the snow-walker Gudrun, to rule the Jarl's people with...
| Author | Barbara Mariconda |
| ISBN | 0062119796 |
An enchanted flute that vibrates when danger is near, sparkling mist that unlocks a drawer of family secrets, and a bookcase that expands to conceal her hiding place—these are the bits of magic Lucy P. Simmons has experienced since her parents drowned at sea.
The magic is helping Lucy keep...
In this sweet young adult love story, sixteen-year-old art nerd Aeon Still is the unwilling subject of a documentary about average American teenagers. She must quickly come to terms with the identity of her mystery parent, Chronos, the god of time, the realization that she wields extraordinary power,...
When Kari and Lucas first see Seneca Crane up on stage, playing the piano in front of hundreds of people, they are in awe. She is beautiful. She is amazingly talented. And she is only thirteen! But then they get to know her at the Edinburgh Arts Festival and realize that she envies them. Soon the three are...
| Author | Emily Fairlie |
| ISBN | 0062118935 |
In this sequel to The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck, Bud and Laurie solve another mystery at Tuckernuck Hall. This second hilarious installment is perfect for fans of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Chasing Vermeer, The Westing Game, and the Mysterious Benedict Society books.
In...
Sometimes it’s just when you think everything’s finally all right with the world that the gargoyles come looking for you . . . . . Maya is starting to feel at ease in the magical old town of Paris, and she’s enjoying her friendship with Valko Nikolov. But then strange things begin to happen in the city....
| Author | Jennifer Finney Boylan |
| ISBN | 0061728357 |
Falcon Quinn survived the first term at the Academy for Monsters along with his monstrous friends Max, Pearl, Mortia, and the rest. He has finally discovered his monster nature and is working hard to embrace it. But what does it mean to be an Angel, exactly? Having wings is great, when Falcon can remember...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152053093 |
The wizard has big summer plans: to garden, to fish, and to nap. The only thing better would be if he had someone nice to share the days with. But the only people who show up want him to rescue yet another princess, lift the usual vile curse, confront a fearsome ghost, deal with a pack of magical hooligans,...
| Author | Nils Johnson-Shelton |
| ISBN | 0062070940 |
Across both worlds are seven legendary blades. Some have been uncovered, Some forgotten, Others secreted away.
Very soon all must be united.
Spending the summer fighting dragons, rescuing wizards, and leaping through portals into the Otherworld was only the beginning for Artie...
| Author | Richard Newsome |
| ISBN | 1921758538 |
The life of Australian teen Gerald Wilkins changed forever when he inherited twenty billion pounds and a mystery to solve. In The Mask of Destiny, Gerald believes his enemy Sir Mason Green will be put in prison for murder. Instead, Gerald is accused of murder himself. He'll have to find the last of three...
| Author | Gordon McAlpine |
| ISBN | 0142423467 |
Meet Edgar and Allan Poe -- twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They look and act so much alike that they're almost one mischievous, prank-playing boy in two bodies. When their beloved black cat, Roderick Usher, is kidnapped and...
| Author | Jon Voelkel |
| ISBN | 1606844563 |
A hurricane is brewing in the jungles of the Maya, and the ancient Death Lords are on the warpath. Across the world in Venice, Italy, hanging out with his blogger friend Nasty (Anastasia) Smith-Jones and eating Pizza Gelato, Max Murphy thinks he is safe from their clutches. But when a rogue octopus pulls...
| Author | Jeff Sampson |
| ISBN | 0061992801 |
The war against BioZenith is on.
Since she first came into her mysterious new superpowers, Emily has watched one of her packmates disappear through an interdimensional portal; she’s been hunted by creepy, body-snatching Shadowmen; she’s managed to form an alliance with the same telekinetic...
| Author | Di Toft |
| ISBN | 0545171091 |
The exciting adventures of a boy and his pet...werewolf! When his big, hairy hound turns into a boy, Nat discovers he's caught up in a weird government conspiracy to train wolven as weapons!
With his big snaggly teeth, patchy black fur, and glowing golden eyes, Woody is far from the cutest of...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0001854550 |
Not as good as I remembered it, I'm still swimming in the possibility of using it to explain the infamous C.S. Lewis Christian imagery--was Aslan's return a call to revisit the Christian message? was the land of Narnia an allegory our world at his time? what roles in the allegory do the children play--as...
Just who is Halíka Dacomé?
To Rose Frost, moving house every six months is normal. Another town here, another school there, her ability to adapt is as easy as breathing. But everything changes when her parents go overseas and Rose moves in with her grandmother. She enjoys meeting new friends...
