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10 best books like The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College: College (Jennifer Worick): Princess Academy, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, Thornhill, Fairest, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Across Five Aprils, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The List, Icefall, The Unicorn Quest
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 1599900734 |
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of...
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375867821 |
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns)...
Parallel plotlines, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door.
Mary is an orphan at the Thornhill Institute for Children at the very moment that it's closing down for good. But when a bully goes too far, Mary's revenge will have a lasting...
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0060734086 |
In the kingdom of Ayortha, who is the fairest of them all? Certainly not Aza. She is thoroughly convinced that she is ugly. What she may lack in looks, though, she makes up for with a kind heart, and with something no one else has-a magical voice. Her vocal talents captivate all who hear them, and in Ontio...
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763625892 |
A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love.
"Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart. . . ."
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit...
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425182789 |
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."
I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
| Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| ISBN | 1934169234 |
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly...
In the city of Ark, speech is constrained to five hundred sanctioned words. Speak outside the approved lexicon and face banishment. The exceptions are the Wordsmith and his apprentice Letta, the keepers and archivists of all language in their post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval world.
On the...
| Author | Matthew J. Kirby |
| ISBN | 0545274249 |
Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig, along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors, anxiously awaits news of her father's victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending ice refuses...
| Author | Kamilla Benko |
| ISBN | 1681192454 |
Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year. But things are back to normal as they move into Windermere Manor... until the sisters climb a strange ladder in a fireplace and enter the magical land of Arden.
There, they find a world...
Thorn, an outlaw's son, wasn't supposed to be a slave. He's been sold to Tyburn, an executioner, and they're headed to Castle Gloom in Gehenna, the land of undead, where Thorn will probably be fed to a vampire.
Lilith Shadow wasn't supposed to be ruler of Gehenna. But following the murder of her...
Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies. But Grace wants to finally have a home all their own. Just when she thinks she's found it her mother says it's time to move again. Grace summons the courage to tell her mother how she...
| Author | Tui T. Sutherland |
| ISBN | 0545349222 |
This is the fifth book in the Wings of Fire series and wraps up the main storyline of this series so far while starting a new one. It was an excellent continuation of this series. I really enjoyed it.
This book follows Sunny. Right off the bat Sunny is kidnapped by some NightWings, but she quickly...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0062248979 |
From master storyteller Diane Stanley comes a spellbinding tale, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, of two princes—one chosen, one lost—and a mysterious girl on a magical island, all caught in a great web of destiny.
On the day of his birth, Prince Alexos is revealed to be the long-awaited...
The Secret of Platform 13
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 0141311924 |
A forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom--an island where humans live happily with feys, mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures. Carefully hidden from the world, the Island is only accessible when the door opens for nine days every nine years....
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0743200268 |
Scientists call them "Inia geoffrensis," an ancient species of toothed whale whose origin dates back about 15 million years. To the local people of the Amazon, pink river dolphins are "botos," shape shifters that, in the guise of human desire, can claim your soul and take you to the Encante, an enchanted...
| Author | Joanne Oppenheim |
| ISBN | 0439569923 |
A chronicle of the incredible correspondence between California librarian Clara Breed and young Japanese American internees during World War II.
In the early 1940s, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American...
| Author | Martin W. Sandler |
| ISBN | 0802722784 |
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of...
Nightmare Hour: Time for Terror
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0064408426 |
The wind whispered through the vines, making them quiver and bend. The scarecrows creaked, shaking their arms as if waving us away. A large pumpkin came bouncing down a hill. Thud thud thud! A child loses his head inside a pumpkin. A skin-crawling spider spell is cast on a sorcerer's apprentice. A visit...
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
| Author | Ibtisam Barakat |
| ISBN | 0374357331 |
"When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!"
But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember.
In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be...
| Author | Rodney P. Carlisle |
| ISBN | 0816056277 |
Have you ever wondered what the world has been doing in the middle east? Well The Iraq War by Rodney Carlisle will give any reader a good idea on the war. Now you can be informed on facts of the war. Obviously this book will talk about the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. But gives a lot history on the build up to the war....
Sensational Trials Of The 20th Century
William Blake: The Gates of Paradise
Journey back to the 1700s to meet one of the most fascinating people in history. Dreamer, craftsman, poet, madman, and genius -- William Blake. Born in 1757 in London, as a boy he apprenticed as an engraver and began a career that would include masterpieces of art.
Blake lived during times of...
Poetry for Young People: Robert Browning
| Author | Robert Browning |
| ISBN | 0806955430 |
Robert Browning's poetry has mysteries and a beauty of language that youngsters will love exploring, from the classic and beloved Pied Piper of Hamelin to the charming verse play Pippa Passes. Perfect for parents to read aloud or along with their children, and accompanied by striking artwork, here...
Naruto Anime Profiles, Vol. 1: Episodes 1-37
| Author | Masashi Kishimoto |
| ISBN | 1421506572 |
Masashi Kishimoto (岸本 斉史 Kishimoto Masashi) is a Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto. His younger twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of the manga series O-Parts Hunter (666 Satan) and Blazer Drive. Two of his former assistants,...
| Author | Roy Inman |
| ISBN | 1404213937 |
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People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are deeply affected by events such as a military conflict or a natural disaster, experiencing repeated thoughts about the events and increased anxiety. They face challenges in school, work, and daily life. Living with PTSD examines the causes and...
The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
| Author | Luis Sepúlveda |
| ISBN | 0439401879 |
A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.
A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback!
Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba...
The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb
| Author | Doreen Gonzales |
| ISBN | 0894908790 |
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| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 1443434310 |
To learn if she truly is the last dairne in the world—the endling—Byx and her friends must travel into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland, where they hope to uncover the truth behind the legend of a hidden dairne colony. But the threat of war across the lands continues to grow with...
