The Ramsay Scallop
10 best books like The Ramsay Scallop (Frances Temple): The Shakespeare Stealer, The Outlaws of Sherwood, The Fire Rose, The Sherwood Ring, Going Solo, The Great Brain, More Than a Carpenter, The Trumpeter of Krakow, The Gammage Cup, Pictures of Hollis Woods
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0141305959 |
Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441013252 |
3.5 stars. I've owned a paperback copy of The Outlaws of Sherwood, a retelling of the Robin Hood folktale, for ages, dating back to the days when I was auto-buying everything Robin McKinley wrote. It's a very different type of book for her: a straightforward historical novel - no fantasy elements at all...
This adaptation of Beauty and the Beast cuts out the merchant father and sisters mourning their sudden impoverishment. Instead of a formerly-wealthy beauty, our heroine is the recently-orphaned daughter of a professor. Highly educated herself, but lacking family or funds, she perforce accepts...
| Author | Elizabeth Marie Pope |
| ISBN | 0618150749 |
Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteries and ghosts....
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0141311428 |
Superb Stories, Daring Deeds, Fantastic Adventures
Here is the action-packed sequel to Boy, a tale of Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action...
| Author | John D. Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0142400580 |
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the...
| Author | Josh McDowell |
| ISBN | 0842345523 |
Someday, in heaven, I am going to thank the kind stranger who handed me this book one day. I was at the height of skepticism, embittered with religion and disillusioned with humanity in general. Christianity was the religion of optimistic but ignorant fools, in my opinion. I didn't even want to talk to...
| Author | Eric P. Kelly |
| ISBN | 0689715714 |
There is something about the Great Tarnov Crystal.... Wise men speak of it in hushed tones. Others are ready to kill for it. And now a murderous Tartar chief is bent on possessing it. But despite this, Joseph Charnetski is bound by an ancient oath to protect the jewel at all costs.
When Joseph and...
The Minnipins have lost their past. Long ago, the hero Gammage led them in war against the horrible Hairless Ones. But now -- Bravery? Forgotten. Courage? No more. Heroes? The stuff of storybooks.
Yet sometimes heroes turn up when they are least expected....
Muggles, Gummy the poet, and...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0439692393 |
When I finished reading this book I actually gave a little yell of happiness. I knew there was a good reason why I wanted to re-read this book. I had read it a couple years back and wanted to know for sure why I had liked it so much the first time around.
The book touches on what is most important in life...
Born on the Mongolian steppes during the reign of Kublai Khan, Oyuna's future seems decided when, as an infant, her foot is crushed by a horse. Her clan believes she has been cursed by bad luck, and she is confined to her family's tent to cook and sew. But Oyuna dreams of bringing honor and good luck to her...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0374466165 |
Life is secure and peaceful for young Prosper, second son of Gerontius, until the day Prince Gorthyn arrives with his hunting party. Prosper's unusual daring in the hunt catches the prince's attention, and he promises to make Prosper his shield-bearer when he comes of age. Two years later, three hundred...
| Author | Adachitoka |
| ISBN | 4063925870 |
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Aunque Yato logró vencer al cielo, este clama por las cabezas de los traidores, es por ello que tanto Yukine como Yato son llevados ante la reina del cielo donde se les exige ser juzgados. De ser encontrados culpables, Yato...
| Author | Jill Paton Walsh |
| ISBN | 0613070631 |
"A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard.
So begins Mall Percival's account of how her village of Eyam struggled against the plague. George...
Each chapter covers the Catholic church missionary work and persecution in different areas of the east.
The version I have was edited by John Holzmann and the entire book, read as a whole, doesn't flow well. Each chapter starts from the beginning of time for that area and so you may read about...
Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America
| Author | Teri Kanefield |
| ISBN | 1419725785 |
The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers....
| Author | Adachitoka |
| ISBN | 4065144914 |
世を乱す術師、しかし、父にして己が命綱── それを斬ると決意した夜トは、ひよりと雪音の前から姿を消す。求めるのは、野良の力を凌ぐ神器！.
Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1250191726 |
Jack and Lilly are no strangers to heroics. They’ve befriended dragons, battled giants, and even earned the loyalty of a goblin army. So when they meet Zita the Spacegirl, fresh from her interplanetary travels and seeking their help to face a new threat, they’re more than ready for another adventure.
But...
