The Wizard's Statue

7 best books like The Wizard's Statue (Debra Doyle): Four Quartets, A Modest Proposal, I Am David, The Mabinogion, Dragon's Blood, A Traitor in Skyhold, City of the Rats

Four Quartets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571068944
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...
A Modest Proposal
AuthorJonathan Swift
ISBN1605977276
Last night my daughter asked me to watch what passes for comedy to pre-teens on Nickelodeon; a show low on laughs but high on laugh track. It's Halloween week and of course the thematic drum of cheap scares and slutty costumes (those of you dads that have 11 year old girls know what it is like to take a knee...
AuthorAnne Holm
ISBN0152051600
David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources...
The Mabinogion
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0140443223
The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn) is a collection of 11 prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back...
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0152051260
I loved this book when I was a kid. Read it for the first time in 5th grade. Still love it to this day.
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I had to write a bit more in defense of this book after reading some of the harsher critiques written by others. First of all, this was a children's book and yes, perhaps it it is not politically...
A Traitor in Skyhold
AuthorJohn Bierce
Hugh and his friends have, to his great displeasure, become the center of attention among the student body at Skyhold. It turns out that surviving the depths of the labyrinth and helping stop a coup both tend to attract notice. If Hugh had his way, he'd happily go back to being just another anonymous student....
City of the Rats
AuthorEmily Rodda
Lief, Barda, and Jasmine must venture into the terrifying City of the Rats in the third action-packed Deltora adventure--now with an amazing lenticular 3-D cover
Lief, Barda, and Jasmine--three companions with nothing in common but their hatred of the enemy--are on a perilous quest to recapture...
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