The Other Side of Silence
10 best books like The Other Side of Silence (Margaret Mahy): Cat Running, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, Watching the Roses, Weeping Willow, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Rocco, In Lane Three, Alex Archer, Switching Well, Mel, A Respectable Girl
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440411521 |
I picked this book up at the Goodwill, not really knowing what it was about other than running, which I have an interest in. Surprisingly, it was about the Dust Bowl era, my current topic of particular interest! Therefore, I may have liked it more than I would have otherwise. But all in all, it was a very good...
| Author | Robin Klein |
| ISBN | 0140361715 |
The hilarious account of a crazy alien family's stay on earth, as their extra-terrestrial powers and ignorance of earth customs get them into trouble, and adventures.
The planet Zyrgon is ruled by the galactic police called The Law-Enforcers, who are after Mortimer because has cheated the...
| Author | Adèle Geras |
| ISBN | 0152055312 |
In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," Alice seems destined to lead a princess's life--except for the frightening curse that dreaded Aunt Violette bestowed at her christening: She will die at the age of eighteen. Although she lives, something horrible happens on her eighteenth birthday. And as...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374482802 |
The only thing that bothers me about this book is the summery given on the back. I went so far that I put a sticker on the back of my copy, so when I lend it to friends they can read it without bias.
I personally think this book is NOT about a girl being raped by her stepfather. Of course that happens, too, but...
| Author | Lewis Carroll |
| ISBN | 1425047750 |
Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in...
| Author | Sherryl Jordan |
| ISBN | 1869435842 |
Rocco has suddenly appeared in a different time and in an unknown location - in the valley Anshur, where he's taken in by a primitive tribe, whose members live closely connected to nature. He is challenged in everything he knows and all his abilities - in everything he brings with him from his usual, modern...
| Author | Tessa Duder |
| ISBN | 0553290207 |
'I have always known that in another life I was-or will be-a dolphin. I am a pink human, caught in a net of ambition and years of hard work. In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I'll either be ecstatic or a failure.'Fifteen-year-old swimming champ...
| 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...
| Author | Liz Berry |
| ISBN | 0140365346 |
This is kind of a weird book. On the one hand, it's a Cinderella romance story between poor, abused, untrusting Mel and rich, glamorous, rock star Mitch. On the other hand, it's also the story of how Mel takes charge of her life after her mother's breakdown. And on the third hand, there's a hefty dose of social...
| Author | Fleur Beale |
| ISBN | 1416910999 |
Trigger warnings: racism, white people being all "WE HAVE MORE RIGHT TO THIS LAND THAN THE TRADITIONAL OWNERS BECAUSE WE HAVE COWS AND SHIT" (if there's a more technical term for that, LMK), childbirth.
3.5 stars.
For the most part, this is a pretty typical YA historical fiction book....
'King,' they said, trying out the word, 'Osro is King. 'Now, stand up,' Osro said. 'Take me to Susan's door. You are my hands and I am your head. Soon O will be ours.'
For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving the magical land of O, the scene of The Halfmen of O and The Priests...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0805063161 |
"Out at the city limits there's this sign that says WELCOME TO CLAYPITTS, PEARL OF THE PRAIRIE, and if you'd believe that, you'd believe anything."
Sixteen-year-old Carol Patterson is a girl in the middle: in the middle of her sisters, in the middle of her adolescence, in the middle of her family's...
Lapsuudestani asti paras kirja ikinä :)
2.4.2016 juhlittiin kansainvälistä lastenpäivää, jota on juhlittu jo vuodesta 1967 lähtien. Päivä on myös satusetä H.C. Andersenin syntymäpäivä, hän syntyi 2.4.1805 Odensessa, Tanskassa. Tunnetuimpia Andersenin saduista ovat...
| Author | Elizabeth Winfrey |
| ISBN | 0553566660 |
L'avrò letto almeno una decina di volte questo libretto. Di tutta la serie Batticuore era il migliore.
La scena in cui i due guardavano il film al telefono mi è sempre piaciuto un sacco.
Sì, c'è un cuoricino che batte sotto tutto questo cinismo. ^__^
A tredici anni, Soobie...
| Author | Janet Frame |
| ISBN | 1844084574 |
I’m amazed by how much Janet Frame packs into her books: most people with lives this eventful would have let the story sprawl to nearly 400 pages, but here in fewer than 200 she captures the years when she was roughly aged 18 to 31 – eight of which were spent off and on in mental hospitals. Frame travelled...
| Author | Veikko Huovinen |
| ISBN | 9510273228 |
Konsta Pylkkäsellä on erikoisen mallinen pääkallo ja harittavat silmät, joilla näkee sekä lähelle että kauas. Hän rekisteröi penkin alta ryömivän torakan ja kuvittelee itselleen taivaankannesta majatalon.
Lentuan rannoille on tullut etelästä tieteenharjoittajia,...
