The Young Wizards
10 best books like The Young Wizards (Diane Duane): The Walls of the Universe, Feral Machines, Return to Atlantis, Witch High, Tatsinda, The Lost Years of Merlin Saga, Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, Ratha and Thistle-Chaser, Magicians of Quality, The Barbed Rose
| Author | Paul Melko |
| ISBN | 0765319977 |
John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return...
When the interstellar wildlife sanctuary Casaverde is quarantined due to an mysterious outbreak of malaria, Andrew Salazar must turn to military surplus synthetic life-forms to help him in his work as warden.
But Andrew soon discovers that the synthetics are far more complex creatures...
| Author | R.A. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1933390182 |
CAN YOU FIND THE LOST KINGDOM OF ATLANTIS AGAIN? OR IS IT A WORLD YOU NO LONGER RECOGNIZE? On your first solo journey to find the Lost Continent of Atlantis, you failed to bring back proof of your success. Many people think that you imagined the whole thing?or worse. Now you and your colleague Horton James...
| Author | Denise Little |
| ISBN | 0756405130 |
High school is different for everyone. For some, it’s a time to shine, and for others, a time to survive. Then there are the students who attend those special schools for the gifted. But what if there was a school that catered to those rarest of students—those who can do magic?
These fourteen...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0152842802 |
Tatsinda is considered an outsider by the people of the Tatrajanni kingdom. Her talent as a weaver has ensured that she can support herself--and perhaps win the love of the handsome Prince. But when an evil giant takes Tatsinda prisoner and plans to destroy the kingdom, it will take all the magic, skill,...
| Author | T.A. Barron |
| ISBN | 3001043148 |
Bill (my husband) bought these books for me two years ago as a present because they were favorites of his as a kid. At first, I thought they were corny and heavy-handed in their foreshadowing (and I still think so; another criticism is that there are threads of the story that just pop up out of nowhere in later...
| Author | Ellen MacGregor |
| ISBN | 0070445605 |
Miss Pickerell was mighty glad to be home from her vacation. She had had an overdose of noise and confusion. As she led her cow out to graze behind her little house she thought happily about the rest they were both going to have. But suddenly she saw, right in the middle of the pasture, the strangest, largest...
| Author | Clare Bell |
| ISBN | 0142409448 |
Drought has come to the prehistoric world of the Named. Under the leadership of the strong-willed Ratha, the clan of intelligent cats searches out new grazing land for the herd beasts upon which their survival depends. Miles away, on the coast, a young wild cat battles desperately for her own survival....
For country-bred cousins Cecelia Rushton and Katherine Talgarth, something extraordinary is afoot besides the constant whirl of Regency balls - something Young Ladies of Quality rarely come in contact with: magic. Oh, not the mere love spells used by country folk, but real sorcery capable of thwarting...
| Author | Gail Dayton |
| ISBN | 0373802250 |
ORIGINAL READ: 10/10 (17 July 2006 - 20 July 2006)
I really enjoyed this. I had throughly enjoyed the first book in the series, The Compass Rose and was looking forward to this one, atlhough I didn't have time to read it for a lot longer than I would have liked. This series uses the group marriage...
| Author | Wen Spencer |
| ISBN | 0739466879 |
This review is just for Tinker; I haven't yet read the second book in this omnibus (Wolf Who Rules).
My initial reaction to this book still stands. The main character, Tinker, is an inventor who's never really been to Earth, despite the fact that she lives in Pittsburgh. I love the idea of the dimensions...
The Time Travelers: Volume Two
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553494813 |
Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She asks to travel back a hundred years to 1899, when her beloved Strat is in Cairo. But in what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt instead, thousands of years before Strat was born.
Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its...
| Author | John Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0140349324 |
This book is the 8th in the Johnny Dixon series and it take Johnny over the pond to Bristol, England and the Isle of Lundy. Their good friend Father Higgins has been possessed by a powerful spirit. They have to find a way to break the spell. The Professor and Fergie work with Johnny to save the world from this...
| Author | Tara West |
| ISBN | 1601545983 |
Everything about Krysta Richards is wrong, from her short height to her unmanageable hair. Her ability to talk to spirits doesn't help things, either. Her physical flaws don't seem to matter to Bryon, her lab partner. Just as the chemistry between them is about to ignite, a homicide detective asks her...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 0689869312 |
The mischievous Boggart is trying to help his friend The Loch Ness Monster in this “imaginative and compelling tale” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Newbery winner Susan Cooper.
It’s been two years since Emily and Jess Volnik visited ancient Castle Keep in Scotland and made...
Lieutenant Anarion Gray met the enigmatic Kin leader, Lord Abaddon, when he was but a boy after his father's sentencing for crimes against humanity. His father's crime was trying to incite a rebellion against the alien vampiric Kin who live in peace with humanity. In exchange for human blood, the Kin...
| Author | Mark Chadbourn |
| ISBN | 0575079495 |
After a long journey across the ages, Jack Churchill has returned to the modern world, only to find it in the grip of a terrible, dark force. The population is unaware, mesmerised by the Mundane Spell that keeps them in thrall. With a small group of trusted allies, Jack sets out to find the two 'keys' that...
| Author | Jim Butcher |
| ISBN | 0739483447 |
When I first came across harry Dresden I ordered the available omnibus editions from Science Fiction Book Club. I still have these on my shelf. If you've read my reviews of the individual books (or by now the other omnibus editions) you know that I'm a fan of the Dresden books. The books in this volume are...
George Mann is an author and editor, primarily in genre fiction. He was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1978.
A former editor of Outland, Mann is the author of The Human Abstract, and more recently The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual in his Newbury and Hobbes detective series, set in an...
| Author | D.J. MacHale |
| ISBN | 0689038089 |
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. But there is something very special about Bobby. He is going to save the world. And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous...
