The Lovely Shoes
10 best books like The Lovely Shoes (Susan Richards Shreve): Meeting, Anthem, Magic or Not?, The Spiderwick Chronicles Box Set, The Nixie's Song, Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, A Practical Guide to Faeries, Seven-Day Magic, The Well-Wishers, Bye for Now: A Wishers Story
| Author | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0670012831 |
When Maya Andersen and her family moved to Spores Ferry, Oregon, they didn't know there'd be magic right next door. Their new neighbors in the Janus House Apartments all have unusual powers, and the basement is a Grand Central Station to other worlds. Maya and her alien companion, Rimi, are learning...
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0452281253 |
Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152511601 |
The magic begins when Laura and her family--brothers James, baby Deborah, and her parents--move to a country house in Connecticut. There is a well in the yard, and Laura is the kind of girl who believes in making wishes.
Her first wish comes true, and this sets off a round of adventures for Laura,...
The Spiderwick Chronicles Box Set
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689040342 |
It all started with a mysterious letter left at a tiny bookstore for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. Its closing lines: "We just want people to know about this. The stuff that has happened to us could happen to anyone." Little could they imagine the remarkable adventure that awaited them as they...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689871317 |
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter...
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689859414 |
It all began with a strange, mysterious correspondence left for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black at a small New England bookstore. Written by three siblings, the letter told of their great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick and an unfinished tome filled with eyewitness accounts of creatures...
A Practical Guide to Faeries
| Author | Susan J. Morris |
| ISBN | 0786951400 |
Peek inside the secret world of faeries in the next book of the The New York Times best-selling Practical Guide family!
What's the difference between a pixie and a nixie? What happens if you nibble on a bite of faerie food? How do you say "good night" in the language of faeries? In this fully-illustrated...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152020799 |
Of all the Edward Eager books, this is probably the one I know least well, the one I don't think I first sat down and read until I was an adult - which means, unfortunately, that it missed out on that golden period where I devoured books as a child, reread them ad nauseam, and now carry them forever with me.
Note:...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152949941 |
Just when the children thought the magic in the old well was all played out (that is, if it was magic!) and had sworn an oath in blood not to make any more wishes until the well gave them a sign, Gordy—in a reckless moment—told it to get going with its magic, or else! Something certainly did begin to happen...
Bye for Now: A Wishers Story
| Author | Kathleen Churchyard |
| ISBN | 1606841904 |
The candles dripped onto the icing as Robin deliberated. What could she possibly wish? She wanted to wake up the next day and learn all her problems were gone. But since her problems weren’t going to disappear, she didn’t want to be Robin anymore.
“I wish I was somebody else,” Robin...
| Author | Peggy Eddleman |
| ISBN | 0307981312 |
Escape one danger. Jump into another. . . .
Twelve-year-old Hope has always felt a little different from everyone else who lives in White Rock. She tries hard, but she doesn’t always think before she acts. She takes big risks. Sometimes her risks pay off, but sometimes they fail. Sometimes...
A shiver of loathing ran through Goldie. It was more than six months since the Blessed Guardians had been banished from the city. But now here they were, back again!
The city of The city of Jewel is in peril once again, as it is held captive by the frightful Fugleman, his band of Blessed Guardians,...
| Author | Lian Tanner |
| ISBN | 0385739060 |
Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar. Along with her friend Toadspit, she's supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. But although she desperately wants to be a Keeper, she will not leave her sick parents to do so.
But when Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, he...
Vermonia #1: Quest for the Silver Tiger
The battle for Vermonia begins! Fabulous manga artwork highlights this graphic tale of four friends who hold the fate of three worlds in their hands.
On a distant Blue Star, Mel, Jim, Naomi, and Doug — friends obsessed with their garage band — don’t seem that different from any of the other...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689871333 |
In the final installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Nick and Laurie had thought they solved their giant problems when they drove all the giants into the sea. But now, the Grace kids have come back to tell them they may have more trouble coming their way!
It turns out the giants control...
| Author | J. Scott Savage |
| ISBN | 1629722235 |
After finding a compass and clues left by Kallista’s father, Leo Babbage, Trenton and Kallista head west aboard their homemade mechanical dragon to search for the missing inventor. The two teenagers hope to find answers about their mountain city of Cove, but instead, they find only a blackened forest,...
| Author | J. Scott Savage |
| ISBN | 1629723398 |
It's time to take the battle to the dragons.
In the third and final volume of the bestselling Mysteries of Cove series, Trenton and Kallista--along with their friends, Plucky, Simoni, Angus, and Clyde--fly their mechanical dragons south toward San Francisco, looking to rescue any survivors...
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
| Author | Geoffrey Canada |
| ISBN | 0807004235 |
Steven Levitt gave this book high praise when the Freakonomics podcast did an episode on gun control, calling it, “One of the best books I’ve ever read.” Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but it is a moving call to action on the issues of urban poverty and violence. It’s written as a personal memoir,...
