The Ogre Downstairs
10 best books like The Ogre Downstairs (Diana Wynne Jones): Death in Kashmir, Wintersmith, I Am the Cheese, Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind, The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt, Death in the Spotlight, Skating Shoes, The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull, Adelaide, The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery
| Author | M.M. Kaye |
| ISBN | 0312263104 |
Written by celebrated author M. M. Kaye, Death in Kashmir is a wonderfully evocative mystery ...
When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains above the fabled Vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an entertaining but uneventful stay. But when she...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0060890312 |
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the crossover from summer to winter — she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And draws the attention of...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0141300515 |
But I keep pedaling, I keep pedaling...
A photograph of Robert Cormier will show you an old man with a kind face, who was born and grew up in a small town of Leominster in Massachusetts which he never left, who graduated from a private catholic school and wrote articles for the local newspaper....
Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind
| Author | Heidi Ashworth |
| ISBN | 0803499264 |
When the dowager duchess of Marcross insists he accompany her niece, Ginny, into the country for the day to execute a special task, Sir Anthony is appalled, to say the least. Ginny, who thinks little of the fashionable Sir Anthony, is as eager to be done with the chore as he, but before they arrive at their...
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt
I enjoy these books. This is about Johnny Dixon and he needs money to help his grandparents so they can pay their doctor bills. A widow is looking for a lost Will and she will pay 10,000 who can solve the puzzle of where it is. Surprise - Johnny finds the Will.
Written in the 80s, it has a gothic feel...
| Author | Robin Stevens |
| ISBN | 0141373822 |
Someone will take their final bow . . .
Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting.
But the Detective Society is never far away from danger, and it's clear there's trouble afoot at the...
The beloved Noel Streatfeild classic back in print!
It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson’s doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up...
The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
| Author | John Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0142402656 |
When Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass discover an old heirloom clock, the terror begins. The professor suddenly vanishes, and Johnny is left to solve the mystery--alone.
Inside the clock Johnny discovers a miniature room, a room exactly like the one in which a murder took...
| Author | Tomi Ungerer |
| ISBN | 0714860832 |
Adelaide the kangaroo was born with wings, and wished she could fly like birds and airplanes she saw over the desert (what? don't all kangaroos with wings live in the desert?). So she kisses her parents goodbye and takes off on an adventure. There is something so sweetly humorous and sensitive about Tomi...
The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery
A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to...
| Author | Sophia Foster-Dimino |
| ISBN | 1927668468 |
Sorry, it's more about intimacy than it is about actual sex, though it is about attraction and a very few sexual acts. It's mainly, I think, about cartooning, actually, and what comics/cartoons can convey. Based on her zines on this topic.
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Feels...
The sixth mystery from the bestselling, award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.
When Hazel Wong's beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel's family estate in beautiful, bustling Hong...
| Author | Carrie Jones |
| ISBN | 1619638614 |
Annie Nobody thought she was, well, nobody, living in a nowhere town where nothing goes her way. Day 1 at her newest foster home proves to be dreadful, too... and things get even worse when she's chased by something big and scary that definitely wants to eat her.
Luckily for Annie, not everything...
| Author | Claire Fayers |
| ISBN | 1509870067 |
The town of Wyse, set precisely on the border of England and Wales, is remarkable for one thing: it is the only remaining human town where magic works.
When twelve-year-old Ava and her brother return to their birthplace of Wyse, they discovers that their once magical town has been losing its...
Now in print for the very first time, this unmissable collection brings together seven short stories from the internationally bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series, and one special guest tale from somewhere completely different.
**Includes brand-new St Mary's short story, When Did You...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 1419153722 |
Folklore expert Professor Pounce is evading a bridge game by hiding in the attic of a friend's place when he spies a diary which discusses, he discovers, the Stone of Chastity. Set in a brook, it is a test for females. If they can cross without falling as the step on said stone, they have passed.
For...
The Tent, the Bucket and Me
| Author | Emma Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0091926785 |
Growing up in the Seventies, we were on the brink of the modern age. But despite a brave new world of Casio hand-held calculators and digital watches, one thing remained the same: the family holiday. For the Seventies child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of...
Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library
| Author | Chris Paling |
| ISBN | 1472124715 |
Chris works as a librarian in a small-town library in the south of England. This is the story of the library, its staff, and the fascinating group of people who use the library on a regular basis.
We'll meet characters like the street-sleepers Brewer, Wolf and Spencer, who are always the first...
