The Wilful Eye
9 best books like The Wilful Eye (Isobelle Carmody): Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, Skulduggery Pleasant, Princess of the Silver Woods, Snow in Summer, The Tower Treasure, Hero, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Sweetest Spell, The Shadow of Malabron
Author | Jessica Day George |
ISBN | 1599901099 |
"Blessed" or "cursed" with an ability to understand animals, the Lass (as she's known to her family) has always been an oddball. And when an isbjorn (polar bear) seeks her out, and promises that her family will become rich if only the Lass will accompany him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the...
Author | Derek Landy |
ISBN | 0061231150 |
"So you won't keep anything from me again?"
He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die."
"Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart," she said.
"I know."
"And technically, you've already died."
"I know that too."
"Just so we're clear."
When...
Princess of the Silver Woods
Author | Jessica Day George |
ISBN | 1599906465 |
When Petunia, the youngest of King Gregor's twelve dancing daughters, is invited to visit an elderly friend in the neighboring country of Westfalin, she welcomes the change of scenery. But in order to reach Westfalin, Petunia must pass through a forest where strange two-legged wolves are rumored...
Author | Jane Yolen |
ISBN | 0399256636 |
With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after...
Author | Franklin W. Dixon |
ISBN | 1557091447 |
Published in 1927, The Tower Treasure is the book that introduced the teenage heroes, Frank and Joe Hardy, and which also began the series that would introduce generations of young boys to the world of crime fiction. The series ran until 2005 and consists of one hundred and ninety volumes, although some...
Author | Alethea Kontis |
ISBN | 0544056779 |
Rough and tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic—until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and whisked off to the top of the world. Is Saturday...
Author | Neal Asher |
ISBN | 1597801399 |
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember. Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to...
Author | Suzanne Selfors |
ISBN | 0802723764 |
Emmeline Thistle, a dirt-scratcher's daughter, has escaped death twice-first, on the night she was born, and second, on the day her entire village was swept away by flood. Left with nothing and no one, Emmeline discovers her rare and mysterious ability-she can churn milk into chocolate, a delicacy...
Author | Thomas Wharton |
ISBN | 1406312509 |
I am glad I found this book in my library. I thought it would just a be the usual fantasy story- a boy on a quest,etc,etc. But then I read the prologue of this book..Thomas Wharton is a great storyteller. The language is beautiful, the story is engaging, great characters, and the description is so detailed....