The King in the Window
10 best books like The King in the Window (Adam Gopnik): Tree Castle Island, The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey, My Name is Seepeetza, The Way of the Wilderking, The Court of the Stone Children, Into the Labyrinth, A Matter of Profit, The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black, Paint by Magic, The Time Travelers: Volume Two
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0060002565 |
Fourteen-year-old Jack sets out in a handmade canoe for the legendary Okefenokee Swamp. But after several idyllic days of exploring, he's hit with some bad luck. He can't find his way home, and he runs into a hungry alligator who takes a bite out of his canoe. When he pulls up to a remote island, he finds...
| Author | Lisa Papademetriou |
| ISBN | 1595140743 |
If you take fantasy books as serious business (for example, if you’ve ever yelled this at someone: ” How dare you say Hobbits aren’t real?!”), then this book is not for you. But if you can find humor in things you enjoy, then I have a feeling you’ll like this book. I did.
Now, the characters....
| Author | Shirley Sterling |
| ISBN | 0888991657 |
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.
An...
| Author | Jonathan Rogers |
| ISBN | 0805431330 |
n book three of the acclaimed Wilderking Trilogy, civilizer Aidan returns home from three years in Feechiefen Swamp to discover that a party known as the Aidanites has arisen among his fellow Corenwalders. They believe the “Wilderking Chant” makes reference to Aidan, and that he is destined to...
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
| ISBN | 0140342893 |
Who is Dominique? When Nina first sees her in the French Museum, she senses that there is something unreal about the strange, beautiful girl. In fact, Domi is from Napoleon's time, and she has come to get Nina's help. For Domi's father was executed as a traitor during the French Revolution, and Domi is...
| Author | Roderick Townley |
| ISBN | 1416913920 |
What a relief when the old storybook is republished and the characters who live inside it suddenly discover they have Readers again -- lots of Readers! Princess Sylvie finds herself rushing to get to her place whenever a new Reader -- whether in Boston or Bangkok -- opens the book. Her mother, the queen,...
| Author | Hilari Bell |
| ISBN | 0064473007 |
The T'Chin may be plotting
an assassination -- and Ahvren
has to stop them Ahvren is fed up with war, but as a Vivitare soldier he must fight or risk dishonoring his family. His sister, Sabri, who dreams of freedom, is being forced to marry the emperor's loathsome son. The only chance either of...
| Author | Eden Unger Bowditch |
| ISBN | 1610880021 |
-In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from London, England; nine-year-old Wallace Banneker...
| Author | Kathryn Reiss |
| ISBN | 0152049258 |
Something is terribly wrong with Connor's mom--she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. But the artist who created those paintings died before his mom was even born.
Connor...
The Time Travelers: Volume Two
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553494813 |
Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She asks to travel back a hundred years to 1899, when her beloved Strat is in Cairo. But in what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt instead, thousands of years before Strat was born.
Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its...
| Author | Katherine Roberts |
| ISBN | 1542595851 |
Based on the seven ancient wonders of the world, Katherine Roberts weaves an enticing web - where the ancient world meets pure fantasy. Set against a dazzling backdrop of the Two Lands - now known as Egypt - and the building of the pyramids, 2550 BC comes alive with the main protagonist, Senu, and his mischievous...
| Author | Jane B. Mason |
| ISBN | 0439698138 |
Rapunzel's no damsel in distress...but is she cut out to compete as a knight in shining armor?
The Charm School for Boys is holding their annual jousting tournament and Rapunzel's friend Prince Val is a favorite to win the title...thanks to Rapunzel's coaching. Val can out-joust any prince--but...
| Author | Elise Primavera |
| ISBN | 0060569468 |
For seven years, bad luck has followed Ivy around like a dog on a leash. Her father disappeared, her mother is a washed-up beauty-pageant winner, and now Ivy and her mother have moved into a ramshackle house on Gumm Street. Ivy's new neighbors--bookish Pru, stuck-up Cat, and wannabe adventurer Franny--are...
Brigitta of the White Forest
| Author | Danika Dinsmore |
| ISBN | 0975404296 |
Brigitta is a young Water Faerie from the village-nest of Tiragarrow. She's confused, moody, and anxious about going through "The Change" as she doesn't see how destiny markings on her wings should determine her life's path. A few days before the annual Festival of the Elements, Brigitta is flying...
Delilah Dusticle's Transylvanian Adventure
| Author | A.J. York |
| ISBN | 1497512050 |
Alternate-cover edition can be found here
Delilah Dusticle is back with an action packed mission. In this illustrated instalment, Delilah and the Dustbusters are invited to Transylvania, to cater for the Hallow Eve Ball. All is not what it seems and Count Dracula has a very unusual request....
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0385733763 |
A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.
The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn...
| Author | S.R. Johannes |
| ISBN | 0984799133 |
"a humorous addition to the angel story genre." - Publishers Weekly
A teen guardian angel's personal account about the funny side of the afterlife.
As if the devil's food cake at her wake and the white fat pants she's stuck wearing for eternity weren't bad enough, fourteen-year-old...
| Author | Jodi Lynn Anderson |
| ISBN | 0689869258 |
At Hog Wallow Middle School, May Ellen Bird was always slightly invisible. Then she went on a long trip to the land of the dead, where ghost towns glowed blue in the dark dusk and spooky specters dwelled in cities on the Dead Sea.
Back on Earth at last, May and her hairless cat, Somber Kitty, are now...
Audrey's Guide to Black Magic
Sometimes you have to fight black magic with blacker magic. But in trying to save the people she loves, will Audrey fall into the dark abyss that claimed her father?
In Book II of the Audrey's Guide series, Audrey learns about her witchy roots and continues to fight her nemesis; this time she must...
| Author | Barbara Wersba |
| ISBN | 1932425411 |
What a cute story! I read this one aloud to my cats. They loved it! Walter is a rat who loves to read, living in the house of an old lady who writes children's books. Will Walter and Miss Pomeroy ever be friends? I hated for the story to end. It was so descriptive, a gentle story, and Donna Diamond's soft gray...
| Author | Barrie Kerper |
| ISBN | 0307474895 |
This unique guide to one of the world’s most beloved tourist destinations combines fascinating articles by a wide variety of writers, woven throughout with the editor’s own indispensable advice and opinions—providing in one package an unparalleled experience of an extraordinary place.
This...
