The Nargun and the Stars
10 best books like The Nargun and the Stars (Patricia Wrightson): Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro Nero, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, Storm Boy, There Will Be Wolves, The Otterbury Incident, The Ghost Drum, Foxspell, Memorias de una vaca, The Scarecrows, El polizón del "Ulises"
| Author | Emilio Salgari |
| ISBN | 8842537500 |
Affidata a due anni a uno zingaro che invece di ucciderla la alleva, Jolanda cresce come un maschio, abile a usare le armi, coraggiosa e spavalda. Ora la figlia del temutissimo Corsaro Nero, è tornata ai Caraibi per prendere possesso dell'eredità del padre, ma il perfido Wan Guld, governatore di Maracaibo,...
| Author | Louise Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0374455236 |
In the world of children's literature, Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret are widely recognized as epoch-making. They have been received by young readers, year after year, with excitement and love. The new Fitzhugh novel shares the vigorous sense of comedy and the unflinching fidelity...
| Author | Colin Thiele |
| ISBN | 1741101875 |
Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean. After a pelican mother is shot, Storm Boy rescues the three chicks, and nurses them back to health. He names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival. After he releases them, his favourite,...
| Author | Karleen Bradford |
| ISBN | 0140383719 |
Ursula is different. With her book learning and outspoken manner, she doesn't fit in, and her spirited way's get her into trouble. When a neighbor accuses her of being a witch, her only hope to save herself is to march in the holy People's Crusade to Jerusalem. Along with thousands of other pilgrims, Ursula...
| Author | C. Day-Lewis |
| ISBN | 0435120018 |
“This is a really super story—I shold know, I wrote it. My name is George, and I’m Ted’s second-in-command: Ted is is centre-forward of the Junior XI at King’s School in Otterbury and a first class chap. He’s the leader of our company, and the story began with our battle against Toppy’s...
| Author | Susan Price |
| ISBN | 0571153402 |
“In a place far distant from where you are now grows an oak-tree by a lake.
Round the oak’s trunk is a chain of golden links.
Tethered to the chain is a learned cat, and this most learned of all cats walks round and round the tree continually.
As it walks one way, it sings songs.
As it walks...
| Author | Gillian Rubinstein |
| ISBN | 0689806027 |
After Tod's father abandoned the family, his mother moved them into their grandmother's crowded house. Overwhelmed at school, Tod finds himself lagging behind his classmates and becoming entangled in a destructive gang. After Tod compassionately buries a dead fox, a fox-spirit offers him the chance...
| Author | Bernardo Atxaga |
| ISBN | 8434840472 |
Dice La Vache qui Rit que en este mundo no hay cosa más tonta que una vaca tonta. Y toda la vida de Mo consiste en demostrar a su amiga que ella, desde luego, a pesar de ser vaca -y no caballo brioso-, no tiene ni un pelo de tonta. ¡Ni uno! Es una vaca notablemente Omega, y nada Alfa. Y tiene una voz interior, y...
The Scarecrows is creepy, but behind it all there's a moral about anger, frustration and how you should face it rather than run away from it. The main character's eerie adventure as he holes up in an abandoned mill is easy for readers to relate to. Everyone has something that they want to run away...
Jujú pasa las tardes en el desván de la casa, que se ha convertido en su barco, el Ulises, la señorita Florentina (una paloma) y su fiel Contramaestre (un perrito) le acompañan en todas sus aventuras. Los días de Jujú son más bien aburridos. Le han criado tres tías solteronas, que le encontraron...
| Author | Ursula Dubosarsky |
| ISBN | 1596432659 |
Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking...
| Author | Cynthia Harnett |
| ISBN | 0140301534 |
Considering how important the wool trade was to the development of early-modern Britain, it is surprising how few novels deal with the business of wool. Those written for young readers are even scarcer. The Wool-Pack helps fill the gap.
This is historical fiction rather than history, written...
| Author | Nadia Wheatley |
| ISBN | 0916291545 |
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I have just spent a delightful forty-five minutes reading the children’s book “My Place”. Winner of many awards in its home continent of Australia, it is fully worthy of all of them. What a joy and pleasure it was!
The book spans two centuries, from 1788 to 1988, and covers the...
| Author | James Moloney |
| ISBN | 0702224995 |
When Dougy's sister Gracey is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: black...
C'est pô vrai ? Vous connaissez pô Titeuf ? C'est nul, ça. Méganul, même. J'sais pô, moi, faites un effort, quand même. Avec sa bouille toute ronde et sa touffe blonde dressée sur le crâne, c'est un héros moderne des cours de récré. À la fois naïf, plein d'enthousiasme et gentil comme...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0192752030 |
Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques, and his stories persuade the customers to buy the items he talks about, but everything he says is a pack of lies. Isn't it?
The story of Ailsa and...
Jan fällt auf. Weil er artistisch Fahrrad fahren kann, rote Haare hat und so weiche Gesichtszüge, dass viele ihn für ein Mädchen halten. Doch er kann auch so zuschlagen, dass er bald vor jeder Anpöbelei sicher ist. Da ist aber noch ein Geheimnis um Jan. Niemand kennt seine Adresse und seinen Nachnamen...
| Author | G.A. Henty |
| ISBN | 1406813168 |
Just because something was written over a century ago, that does not mean it was written well. That has been hammered home in ‘With Clive in India’.
It is one of the books freely available on ManyBooks.net, though I picked my copy up a few years ago in Poundland. Three nineteenth-century...
| Author | Libby Hathorn |
| ISBN | 0340739886 |
Lara feels completely alone after the death of her mother. She is an intruder in her father's new family, living far away from all that has been familiar. How can she find acceptance and love in this harsh place? Will the hostile Gladwyn and her kids ever really allow Lara to be part of the family she so longs...
Biggles The Camels Are Coming
| Author | W.E. Johns |
| ISBN | 0099283212 |
What in the world went wrong here!!?? Biggles all of a sudden is a swearing, hard-core fellow with no emotions. I totally did not like him in this one. Technically, W.E. Johns wrote this book first of any other Biggles stories (it is the third one that I've read). So I've imagined a scenario for why his first...
| Author | Jill Paton Walsh |
| ISBN | 0613070631 |
"A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard.
So begins Mall Percival's account of how her village of Eyam struggled against the plague. George...
| Author | Christine Nöstlinger |
| ISBN | 3407784759 |
Eine Familiengeschichte aus dem Nachkriegs-Wien, voll Komik und Tragik. Eine Pulverlandgeschichte, die wirklich passiert ist. Sie handelt von sehr verschiedenen Menschen, aber auch von Trümmerbergen, in der Hauptsache aber von der Freundschaft, die ein neunjähriges Mädchen mit einem russischen...
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1569718644 |
From Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy, comes Metropolis, the legendary 1949 graphic novel that inspired the animate fame that floor audiences and critics alike. In the not-so-far-off future, a beautiful, artificially created girl — unaware of her non-human background :— searches for non-existant...
The Beast of Blackmoor Bog
She's hit some sort of point here where the characters and world are developed enough to get interesting. Some things that sound fantastical are revealed to be ordinary, some things foreshadowed in the previous books come into play (what I am saying is go back and read the first two because this book might...
