The Secret Country
10 best books like The Secret Country (Pamela Dean): The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, Lord Darcy, The Goblin Wood, The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey, The Book of Night with Moon, A Walk Out of the World, Gold Unicorn, The Folk of the Air, A Well-Timed Enchantment, The Sunbird
The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 0670010898 |
Neef, the official Changeling of Central Park, has survived a life-threatening quest, but that’s nothing compared to her first experiences at Changeling school. At Miss Van Loon’s, she meets her counterparts from all over Manhattan, learns the basics of diplomacy, and, of course, gets in trouble....
| Author | Randall Garrett |
| ISBN | 0743435486 |
Welcome to an alternate world where Richard the Lion-Heart did not die in the year 1199... where magic is a science and science is an art... where the great detective Lord Darcy and the sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn combine occult skills and brilliant deductions to bring criminals to the King's Justice...
It began with the chiming of the tiny copper bell on the mantel, warning them someone was passing the ward stone her mother had placed on the path to their house ...
One terrible day, Makenna, a young hedgewitch, witnesses her mother's murder at the hands of their own neighbors. Striken with grief...
| Author | Lisa Papademetriou |
| ISBN | 1595140743 |
If you take fantasy books as serious business (for example, if you’ve ever yelled this at someone: ” How dare you say Hobbits aren’t real?!”), then this book is not for you. But if you can find humor in things you enjoy, then I have a feeling you’ll like this book. I did.
Now, the characters....
| Author | Diane Duane |
| ISBN | 0446606332 |
Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think -- but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards to protect the earth from dark forces and maintain the network of magical gateways that connect to different realities....
| Author | Ruth Nichols |
| ISBN | 0152945148 |
Trying to stay one book recommendation ahead of my daughter's voracious reading habit, I somehow clicked my way to Ruth Nichols. This short novel borrows heavily from LOTR and the Pevensie's magic wardrobe, but I kept reminding myself that it was written for a child somewhere between 10 and 13,...
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0689318146 |
This was not horrible, but it was not what the first book was to me. Mind you, I get it. I get it. I understand everything the story did. And I didn't hate the characters either. In fact, I think the characters are still the strongest part of this book. What you had to go through was a bunch of bollocks, but...
| Author | Peter S. Beagle |
| ISBN | 0345337824 |
[9/10]
They were playing with time and magic, but time is tricky and magic is dangerous!
This is an excellent summary of the novel Peter S Beagle took so many years to write. I read somewhere that "The Folk of the Air" comes after "The Last Unicorn" in his catalogue, so in my mind the action...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152049193 |
It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for.
Before she can make a wish, the cat scratches her, her watch falls into the well, and then . . . so has...
| Author | Elizabeth E. Wein |
| ISBN | 0142401714 |
Eleven-year-old Telemakos is the grandson of two royal men: one African, from the kingdom of Aksum; the other Artos, the fallen High King of Britain. He is also a remarkable listener and tracker. Now his country needs his skill. Even though there is a quarantine, plague is spreading through Aksum, leaving...
| Author | Meredith Ann Pierce |
| ISBN | 0142403563 |
A spellbinding collection of short stories by the author of the Darkangel and Firebringer trilogies.
Meredith Ann Pierce's acclaimed novels are the proof of a remarkable imagination. Here is more proof--eight shorter works of fiction, each with a strong heroine, a tangibly imagined world,...
| Author | Sherwood Smith |
| ISBN | 0142401609 |
All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one-with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son with no chance of becoming king; and the magician is an apprentice?...
| Author | Midori Snyder |
| ISBN | 0142401358 |
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Brittman is looking forward to her violin recital and the prom-- until the hospital calls and she learns that her grandfather, noted mystical painter Daniel Brittman, is dying. Cassie, her mother, Anne, and Anne's new boyfriend travel to the family farm and immediately...
| Author | Joy Chant |
| ISBN | 0345021789 |
When I was a young girl Joy Chant was part of the triarchy from whom I bought and read everything I could get my hands on (the other two being Joan D. Vinge and Elizabeth A. Lynn). So I thought it was about time after all those years to get re-acquainted with my childhood dreams.
As things turned out...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0810992132 |
Sleator is at his sci-fi best with this quantum thriller, now available in paperback
In this gothic, sci-fi thriller from a master storyteller, Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, discover a mysterious maze in the vast gardens of their isolated home. Planted by a scientist uncle...
| Author | Tim Pratt |
| ISBN | 0553383388 |
In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent–and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us….
As night manager of Santa Cruz’s quirkiest coffeehouse,...
| Author | Gregory Frost |
| ISBN | 0345497589 |
"You rattle the darkness where you walk, Jax."
Enter Shadowbridge, a world of linked spiraling spans of bridges on which all impossibilities can happen. Ghosts parade, inscrutable gods cast riddles, and dangerous magic is unleashed.
Monstrous creatures drain the lives of children...
| Author | Jahnna N. Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0590212877 |
An exciting new series for young girls featuring princesses, jewels, unicorns and dragons, fantastical places, and real magic. The first four introductory books in the series will be packaged with co
Emily is the spunky little princess of Greenwood, a lush forest where gigantic cedars...
Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat Creek, North Carolina -- and she crosses over, driven by a strange compulsion she can neither resist nor comprehend. Molly McColl is brought there against her will -- kidnapped from her trailer and carried into a realm that traps her, terrifies...
An Ancient Prophecy. A Powerful Relic. An Insatiable Evil. When all three converge, the fate of every living thing will be in peril.
All her life Catherine had hoped to see a fairrier cat. No book, no scroll provided to her by her tutors had ever mentioned this legend, much to her frustration,...
| Author | Mindy Klasky |
| ISBN | 0451457897 |
This was a light, fun fast read. (especially after Rushdie!) Set in a medieval-style fantasy world, a young apprentice accidentally uncovers a plot against the royal family within her guild. Her attempts to do the right thing only get her deeper in trouble, as she unwittingly gets involved in secret...
| Author | Laura Anne Gilman |
| ISBN | 0373803559 |
"He has been taken. And you are his only chance."
That wasn't something Jan expected to hear--especially from strangers who'd just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn't expected her rescuers to be shape-shifters....
Now it turns out her...
