The Merlin Effect
8 best books like The Merlin Effect (T.A. Barron): Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy, Der mechanische Prinz, Behind the Attic Wall, Mandy, The Pigman, Dragon Seed
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 0380789027 |
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift...
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
| Author | Julie Andrews Edwards |
| ISBN | 0060218053 |
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
was the second children’s novel ever written by Julie Andrews, the beloved star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Perfect for young readers who love whimsical stories about magic!
The Whangdoodle was once the wisest, the kindest, and the...
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
| Author | Jon Gordon |
| ISBN | 0470100281 |
The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Jon infuses this engaging story with...
| Author | Andreas Steinhöfel |
| ISBN | 3551581126 |
Er war, so scheint es ihm, von Anfang an das egalste Kind der Welt. Das traurigste ... Das sprachloseste ... Dann, eines Morgens vor der U-Bahn, erhält Max von einem einarmigen Bettler ein unglaubliches Geschenk Und ein goldenes Ticket, mit dem er an Orte reisen kann, wo nur wenige hinkommen: die Refugien....
| Author | Sylvia Cassedy |
| ISBN | 0380698439 |
They were watching...and waiting
At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.
Maggie...
| Author | Julie Andrews Edwards |
| ISBN | 0061131628 |
The magic of finding a home Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy works to make it truly hers. Sometimes she "borrows"...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0060757353 |
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When sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the...
| Author | Pearl S. Buck |
| ISBN | 1559210338 |
One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war inflicted...
