The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
10 best books like The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (Lloyd Alexander): Gwinna, Eight Days of Luke, The House of Arden, The Court of the Stone Children, Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat, The Battle for the Castle, Words By Heart, The Night Swimmers, The Canning Season, Switching Well
| Author | Barbara Helen Berger |
A stunning book that has stayed with me ever since my 5th/6th grade teacher read it aloud to us. The story was so moving to me as a child, and after briefly forgetting about it as an adult, I suddenly had something tickle my memory and then became absolutely determined to find it to share with my then 5 year...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0064473570 |
There seemed nothing strange about Luke to begin with, except perhaps the snakes. If they were snakes - David wasn't sure. He was just grateful for a companion as agreeable as Luke, who seemed able to twist anyone round his finger, even David's odious relatives. "Just kindle a flame and I'll be with you,"...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 1590172027 |
The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arden line, Edred, Elfrida, and their Aunt Edith, have nothing to their names but the crumbling castle they live in. Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that...
| 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 | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 0140311874 |
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy
“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
The adventure continues in this exciting companion to The Castle in the Attic.
As William turns twelve, he wonders if Jason is still his best friend. In the past year, Jason has grown a foot taller, while William is still a shrimp. When Jason challenges William to “jump the trains,” William...
Lena can recite the Scriptures by heart. Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and to make her white classmates notice her "Magic Mind," not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting contest. But winning does not bring Lena what she expected. Instead of honor, violence and death erupt and...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0440458579 |
Retta, Johnny and Roy are the night swimmers: three children whose father leaves them alone while he performs as a singer."Byars has the uncanny ability to know the secret lives...the outward postures, and the exact words her characters would surely use."-- "The New York Times Book Review."
A...
| Author | Polly Horvath |
| ISBN | 0374399565 |
Love under trying circumstances
One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who...
| Author | Peni R. Griffin |
| ISBN | 0780748204 |
The two of them live in the same town--Amber in 1991, and Ada in 1891--and they both have real problems. Amber's parents are getting divorced, and she seems to be the last to know. Ada's father doesn't think women have minds of their own. So the two troubled girls hit on the same solution: they each go to the...
RATING 4.2 STARS
I always love finding an old Gordon Korman book that somehow escaped my grasp when I was younger. This one continues the saga of Bugs Potter, a.k.a. "The Most," drummer extraordinaire. This time, rather than turning Toronto on its head by sneaking out and performing in clubs...
| Author | Wendy Froud |
| ISBN | 0743202341 |
Carefully combing his ears and tail and wearing his finest red felt boots, a furry young faery named Sneezle prepares for the Midwinter festival in Old Oak Wood -- the oldest faery court in the British Isles. All the denizens of the wood have gathered for this grand winter holiday...but this year something...
| Author | David Farland |
| ISBN | 1598113542 |
When the evil wormlord Sebaceous Ooze uses his magical song to enslave mice to dig a volcano that will help him and his slobber goblin armies take over the world, it's up to Amber, a mouse with magical powers, to stop him. With her devoted friends by her sideBen, a mouse who used to be a human boy; Thorn,...
| Author | Dawn Lairamore |
| ISBN | 0823423921 |
Having saved her kingdom from the dastardly designs of a scheming prince in Ivy's Ever After, fourteen-year-old Princess Ivy and her dragon friend, Elridge, have little time to rest on their laurels, for Ardendale is once again being threatened. It seems that many years ago a magical harp and a hen that...
| Author | Rick Walton |
| ISBN | 0698116070 |
Illustrated by Greg Hally When a bullfrog sets out to find his lost hop in the Old West, nothing is what it appears to be. With the flip of a page, a toad becomes a toadstool, a dog becomes a doghouse, a cow becomes a cowboy and a stage becomes a stagecoach in this rollicking story that?s a true page-turner?in...
| Author | Marcus Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 1466870737 |
Download the chapter sampler of Midwinterblood, the Printz Award–winning novel by Marcus Sedgwick.
An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven stories in this compelling...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374416966 |
An ALA Notable Book.
“Singer's memories of his youth in Poland make a powerful, brilliant children's book. The author lays out a panorama of Jewish life in the city-- the rabbis in black velvet and gabardine, the shopkeepers, the street urchins and schoolboys, the poverty, the confusion,...
Frederick's Fables : A Treasury of 16 Favorite Leo Lionni Stories
| Author | Leo Lionni |
| ISBN | 0679888268 |
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the publication of "Frederick,"
Knopf is pleased to issue an expanded collector's edition of Leo Lionni's
timeless tales that celebrate the power of imagination and the human spirit.
With the addition of three new titles-- "Matthew's Dream, An Extraordinary
Egg,"...
LaRue for Mayor: Letters from the Campaign
| Author | Mark Teague |
| ISBN | 0439783151 |
Canine everyman Ike LaRue returns to take on the political machine in this gleeful tale, the third of Mark Teague's best selling, award winning DEAR MRS. LARUE series.
Ike finds his civil liberties at risk when Hugo Bugwort, the hard line mayoral candidate, promises to crack down on free-roaming,...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0448432773 |
In my opinion, this is a suitable and decent book for kids who want to become knights when they grow up. The story is based on 3 main characters, Wiglaf , Angus and Erica in a school named " Dragon Slayers' Academy", which taught knight skills to lads to learn to become brave knights in 4 years. The story talks...
A long time ago, two great sorcerers fought a duel to determine the fate of the world. Magic itself was ripped from our world, its power kept secret by a handful of enchanters. The world of Magicks, however, still exists-and whoever controls the Gates controls both worlds.
In The Magickers...
Enter...
Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls
| Author | Lynne Jonell |
| ISBN | 0805081518 |
Emmy Addison is an ordinary girl—almost. If you don't count the fact that her parents are rich (very), her best friend is a boy (and a soccer star), and she can talk to rodents (and they talk back), she's very ordinary indeed. But she hasn't been that way for long . . .
It was only a few weeks ago that...
