The Prime Minister's Brain
9 best books like The Prime Minister's Brain (Gillian Cross): Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, Lola Rose, Finn Family Moomintroll, The Haunting, The Illustrated Mum, The Peppermint Pig, A Dog So Small, Return to Groosham Grange, Groosham Grange
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
| Author | Jessica Pan |
| ISBN | 0857526154 |
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.
When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 9792227725 |
When life with Jayni's violent-tempered father becomes too frightening to cope with, Jayni, her mum and her little brother Kenny are forced to escape in the middle of the night. Slipping out of the house unseen, travelling up to London by train and checking into a hotel - it's almost like playing an elaborate...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0374423075 |
"It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?"
"I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun."
My children and I believed...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140363254 |
If I could use one word to describe this novel... it would be - odd. Which makes it genuinely discordant and spooky for a psychological drama, dotted with very beautiful chilling descriptions... but the strange choice to make the novel carry itself entirely on dialogue means it runs out of steam very...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0440863686 |
Marigold loves her daughters a lot. But she loves herself far more. She sees them as children to be formed in her own egotistical image to reflect what she wants the world to think of her. She has one adoring child and one who is beginning to want her own life and not want to look after her mother anymore. Both...
| 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...
| Author | Philippa Pearce |
| ISBN | 0140302069 |
Philippa Pearce’s poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.
Young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He’s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library—and he just knows he’s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but...
Return to Groosham Grange
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| ISBN | 0744583454 |
Someone is trying to destroy David Eliot's school. A year ago, he'd have been happy to see the end of Groosham Grange and its ghoulish teachers. Now, he's on course to win the Unholy Grail, a cup of magical power presented to the star pupil. But a series of suspicious mishaps sees the gap between David and...
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| ISBN | 0744583446 |
The characters in this book are stereotypical and flat--you've got the fat kid who seems like he will be a bigger secondary character but then disappears halfway through the story. Then there's the tomboy girl best friend that doesn't really do anything. I never bonded with the main character, and felt...
