The Otterbury Incident
10 best books like The Otterbury Incident (C. Day-Lewis): Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro Nero, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, The Return of the Twelves, The Nargun and the Stars, The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life, There Will Be Wolves, Tulku, The Ghost Drum, Foxspell, Memorias de una vaca
| 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 | Pauline Clarke |
| ISBN | 0698201175 |
Beneath a floorboard in the old farmhouse into which his family has just moved, eight-year-old Max Morley discovers twelve time-worn wooden soldiers. Under his careful watch, the "Twelves" come to life, each possessing a name and a distinct personality. As Max soon learns, they share a history filled...
Few books had as profound an impact on me when I was growing up. This haunting tale of a lonely boy discovering an ancient stone Nargun, a creature straight from Aboriginal mythology, on his uncle's rural property had me spellbound. It still does. Wrightson, who died in 2010, was criticised for using...
I don’t usually read a lot of middle grade fiction but whenever I do, I enjoy the whole reading experience so much that I wonder why I don’t read more frequently from this genre. There was this one particular book which kept falling at my feet every time I opened my bookshelf. I took this as a sign and moreover,...
| 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 | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0552528129 |
An attack in the dark, screams, burning huts...Thirteen-year-old Theodore crouches under the trees. His father's Mission has been destroyed. His father is dead. Theodore is on his own, fleeing the Chinese rebels of the Boxer uprising.Then Mrs Jones appears. A botanist, Mrs Jones is a feisty, aging,...
| 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...
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| ISBN | 0140309446 |
Could you possibly have guessed that this book with such a hyper-cute cover has the most inexplicably cruel ending I've ever seen in children's literature?
If 'The Peppermint Pig' (1975) by Nina Bawden was a book for adults, I would have rated it much higher. I am impressed by its nostalgic beauty...
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 | 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 | David Hill |
| ISBN | 0140370560 |
See Ya Simon is the kind of book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime.
While reading See Ya Simon I fell in love with both Simon and Nathan, they are both really great guys and the best friends that could ever exist. All of the characters are that great.
This book is relatively...
| 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 | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1863301135 |
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On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
| 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...
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 | 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...
