The Reluctant God
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| Author | Helen Mary Hoover |
| ISBN | 0140318739 |
Centuries after humanity destroyed the environment, a small society of genetically modified telepaths has emerged from their underground shelter and begun readapting to life on the surface. Included in their efforts are searches for other possible survivors, but none of the explorers report any....
| Author | Jane Resh Thomas |
| ISBN | 0395515874 |
I'm not eight. But I liked this book anyway.
This is one of those books that is short enough and easy enough for younger children, but still has some meat on it and some history thrown in, without being preachy. I'm starting to detest all those little fairy books and unicorn books, so this books came...
| Author | Anne Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0316526282 |
I FOUND IT!
For years, I have thought about this book from time to time. I vividly recalled reading a really good book, narrated by a girl living with her grandmother and involving time travel down a laundry chute. I had no idea what the title was or who the author was, so I despaired of ever finding...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0440405807 |
Ladies and gentlemen of the Goodreads jury. Don't let the fact that this book is cutesy-covered, middle-size fonted, and 100 pages thin fool you: This is NOT A BOOK FOR (JUST) KIDS. How do I know that? I submit as evidence: me. I read this randomly when I was a youngun and loved it. Years later, as a less-youngun,...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152164448 |
Features the Nebula Award-winning novella "Lost Girls."
In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young at heart, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear--but dead--mother's homecoming,...
| Author | Dian Curtis Regan |
| ISBN | 0590457594 |
Princess Quinnella is quite familiar with Mandrian truths. At 15, she's still allowed to come and go as she wishes in the kingdom of Mandria, visiting Melikar the wizard and playing at magic. But she knows that as soon as she turns 16, she will become a woman. A parade of suitors will court her until she chooses...
| Author | Meredith Ann Pierce |
| ISBN | 0152017992 |
I gave The DarkAngel (of The DarkAngel Trilogy) by Meredith Ann Pierce three stars when I read it in early 2009. Absence made my heart grow fonder, or something, and I later upgraded it to a fox force five. I would tell my sister about it and that made it a different kind of reading experience. Something like...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0689851057 |
What would it be like to be older than your father? Brann Connell is sick of hearing his parents argue all the time. Seems to Brann his dad could stand up for himself more, instead of building a wall of excuses to hide behind. But some things never change -- after all, his dad has "always" been this way. Or has...
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 0020425724 |
Beyond the Burning Lands (The Sword of the Spirits #2), John Christopher
After his father's death Luke lives with the Seers in the Sanctuary waiting for the time he will be able to take his rightful place as Prince of Winchester. Sequel to The Prince in Waiting.
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| Author | Sonia Levitin |
| ISBN | 0140375376 |
Sonia Levitin has written excellent books. Journey to America is a classic of Jewish historical fiction. This is not excellent, by any means. It is religious, which I am not comfortable with. It is a poor story. You are never altogether sure how the two ended up with each other. There is too much back and...
The Dalemark Quartet, Vol. 2: The Spellcoats & The Crown of Dalemark
It is a country divided by war. For centuries, the earldoms of the North and South have battled. Now, four young people from different times -- with the help of their mysterious gods, the Undying -- must unite to save their beloved land.
When the great floods come to their village and Tanaqui and...
| Author | Maggie Prince |
| ISBN | 0618331247 |
Something is not right in Emily’s new house in the historic London neighborhood of Hound Hill. And something is not quite right with Emily. Encountering hints to her home’s haunted past, she begins to experience distressing symptoms: a headache, a fever, extreme thirst, hallucinations, and,...
| Author | Mary Stolz |
| ISBN | 0440911230 |
This is the story of two girls: Erin and Irun. One lives now in New York City, and one belongs in ancient Egypt 3,000 years ago. One is fascinated by things of the past, and the other haunted by a voice from the future.
For Erin, the "now" she lives in is not all she'd like it to be. There are problems...
| Author | Yvonne MacGrory |
| ISBN | 0915943921 |
Lucy, a rather spoiled almost-eleven-year-old, gets a very special birthday present from her grandmother. This gift, a star ruby ring, has been passed down for generations through Lucy's family. The evening before her birthday, Lucy accidently discovers the magical secret of the ring:The secret...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0140371516 |
GAAAAHHHH … Okay, it was driving me crazy trying to remember what this book was called. My third or fourth grade teacher read it to us … maybe more than one teacher read it. I don't remember. I loved this book, though––a very sweet story about how, before he turns back into a person, the frog prince...
| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0618494936 |
Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro’s eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. “Lord,...
Across the Nightingale Floor, Episode 1: The Sword of the Warrior
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 0142403245 |
"In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard." "The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden,...
To Breathe the Breath of Isis
| Author | Elizabeth Marx |
| ISBN | 1477531653 |
One woman. One man. An eternity of love hammered into twenty-one pieces of silver.
Marguerite is a victim of a vicious attack. The resulting brain damage causes amnesia and when she inexplicably appears in a tomb in Thebes, she insists she was coming to meet Robert Bruton. Disorientated, destitute,...
| Author | P.J. Hoover |
| ISBN | 1933767138 |
What a fantastic debut novel! I really can’t wait to read the rest of this series. Atlantis has always been something I’ve found fascinating the whole basis of the mythology surrounding it... does it really exist, or is it a load of bull. I’ve read about it fictional literature and I have to say that...
| Author | Elaine Barbieri |
| ISBN | 0060011343 |
Miranda, a painfully proud young woman (who happens to be the daughter of the commanding officer of the local fort) finds herself in a sticky situation: she has been captured by the local Cheyenne, and given as a gift to Rattling Blanket, an old woman who has trouble caring for herself. Her pride refuses...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0446362867 |
Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg is a novella set up as a concise narrative in the form of letters written between two mental time travelers visiting the Atlantean Empire some 18,000 years ago, during the last ice age.
Time researchers are sent back in time as a discorporeal entity...
| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0590929496 |
This young adult novel is the tale of Gabrielle de Domremy who is a childhood friend of Joan of Arc. Gabrielle learns healing and midwifery from her mother, and follows Joan's army as a medic. She dresses as a boy, loves (chastely, of course) a soldier, and even follows Joan after she is captured and imprisoned...
| Author | Nancy McArthur |
| ISBN | 0380754932 |
Yummie, Yummie...Dirty Socks!
Michael's room was always a disaster area, strewn with all kinds of litter -- heaps of papers, piles of crumpled clothes, and dirty socks everywhere. And that was just the top layer! The trouble was, half the room belonged to Michael's brother Norman the neatness...
