The Oaken Throne
10 best books like The Oaken Throne (Robin Jarvis): Monument, The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat, Dragon Cauldron, In the Grip of Winter, Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind, Three Terrible Trins, The Magic World, Jo of the Chalet School, Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark, Witch Dreams
| Author | Ian Graham |
| ISBN | 0441012639 |
First published in 2002, so a bit after George R R Martin started his 'Song of Ice and Fire' but before grimdark fantasy became a bandwagon, "Monument" holds a special place in my remembrance as one of the first modern fantasies that made me such a huge fan of the genre. Re-reading it though is a bittersweet...
| Author | Theoni Pappas |
| ISBN | 1884550142 |
With such a colorful cover, I was dismayed when I opened to find this to be a one-color printing... in purple. For elementary school libraries that makes it more affordable to share it with children.
This book is a wonderful collection of brief introductions to various well known visual math...
Monkey tells the tale as he joins the dragon princess, Shimmer, and, along with two fiesty humans, they embark on a mission to recover the dragon homeland. It has been Shimmer's personal quest for years, ever since Witch Civet stole the sea, and the dragons were evicted from their magnificent palaces...
| Author | Colin Dann |
| ISBN | 0099292203 |
(3.5) In this second book of the Farthing Wood series, the animals endure a harsh winter in their new home, the White Deer Park. When Badger falls down a slope and injures his leg, he’s nursed back to health at the Warden’s cottage, where Ginger Cat tempts him to join in a life of comfort and plenty. Meanwhile,...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0590461621 |
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| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0679885528 |
Within the walls and under the floorboards of Orchard Farmhouse live three mischievous mouse brothers (a.k.a. the trins) who create constant commotion. "With his customary panache, King-Smith grabs the reader's attention from his opening sentence. And, sustaining his understated wit and rollicking...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367659 |
Not everyone is successful at writing literary fairytales, especially those stories that mix the modern world with traditional wonder tales of magic and enchantment. Joan Aiken was one who mastered this deft conjoining of old and new, as did her predecessor Edith Nesbit. Maybe it takes a special individual,...
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006903355 |
The Bettany sisters - Madge, who founded a boarding school for girls in the Austrian Tyrol, in
The School at the Chalet
, and her younger sister Joey, who was enrolled as the school's first pupil - return in this second installment of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's epic fifty-eight-volume series (sixty-two,...
| Author | Nora Burglon |
| ISBN | 1892857138 |
I read this aloud to my daughter, and we all fell in love with it. This book is another example of a book I would have never picked up if it wasn't for being a part of the homeschool curriculum we use. It was delightful to step back in time to a different country and see what it was like to live as a child at the end...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0761452354 |
Sixteen-year-old Nyssa can enter into people’s dreams. Although the authorities of the medieval town of Lindenwolde would put her to death if they realized she was a witch, she feels compelled to practice her unique brand of witchcraft to answer the biggest question of her life: who broke into her...
| Author | David Gemmell |
| ISBN | 0593049187 |
David Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explores...
Corry showed up at the orphanage two years ago, unable to remember how he’d gotten there. He spoke a language no one recognized, and he was afraid of cars and planes and computers. Corry can remember snippets of another life, but no matter how hard he tries to remember, it just keeps slipping away. Then...
| Author | Kate Hoefler |
| ISBN | 0544148924 |
With a simple text exploring the true nature of cowboys - cowboys, the narrator assures us, are gentle, thoughtful, and know how to listen and to ask for help - and appealing artwork that captures both the broad sweep of life on the range and the specific experiences of one cowboy, Real Cowboys takes an...
