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10 best books like There Will Be Wolves (Karleen Bradford): Peeling the Onion, The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life, Heart's Delight, Pagan's Crusade, The Otterbury Incident, The Ghost Drum, Foxspell, Memorias de una vaca, El polizón del "Ulises", The Red Shoe

Peeling the Onion
AuthorWendy Orr
ISBN0440227739
The car accident changed everything. Before, Anna knew who she was and what she looked like. But now she's a stranger to her family, her friends, and herself. She is no longer the pretty, popular girl who loves karate. Her body now betrays her, and she knows it will never be the same. All the layers that made...
The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life
AuthorMartine Murray
I don’t usually read a lot of middle grade fiction but whenever I do, I enjoy the whole reading experience so much that I wonder why I don’t read more frequently from this genre. There was this one particular book which kept falling at my feet every time I opened my bookshelf. I took this as a sign and moreover,...
Heart's Delight
AuthorPer Nilsson
ISBN0689876777
Before Heart's Delight, I was a boy, he thinks.
Before Heart's Delight, I was a child
When he first saw Ann-Katrin on the bus, he was mesmerized, captivated, consumed.
But that was before.
Now he sits alone in his room, a sixteen-year-old boy, waiting for her to call. Wishing for her...
Pagan's Crusade
AuthorCatherine Jinks
Was highly recommended for 9yob & that general age group. Very disappointing. (It's not about a pagan, that's merely the main character's name:) Anyway, Pagan is an extremely saucy, disrespectful, sarcastic young man with a dirty mouth. Counted 10 swear words in the first 8 pages. That's as far...
The Otterbury Incident
AuthorC. Day-Lewis
ISBN0435120018
“This is a really super story—I shold know, I wrote it. My name is George, and I’m Ted’s second-in-command: Ted is is centre-forward of the Junior XI at King’s School in Otterbury and a first class chap. He’s the leader of our company, and the story began with our battle against Toppy’s...
The Ghost Drum
AuthorSusan Price
ISBN0571153402
“In a place far distant from where you are now grows an oak-tree by a lake.
Round the oak’s trunk is a chain of golden links.
Tethered to the chain is a learned cat, and this most learned of all cats walks round and round the tree continually.
As it walks one way, it sings songs.
As it walks...
Foxspell
AuthorGillian Rubinstein
ISBN0689806027
After Tod's father abandoned the family, his mother moved them into their grandmother's crowded house. Overwhelmed at school, Tod finds himself lagging behind his classmates and becoming entangled in a destructive gang. After Tod compassionately buries a dead fox, a fox-spirit offers him the chance...
Memorias de una vaca
AuthorBernardo Atxaga
ISBN8434840472
Dice La Vache qui Rit que en este mundo no hay cosa más tonta que una vaca tonta. Y toda la vida de Mo consiste en demostrar a su amiga que ella, desde luego, a pesar de ser vaca -y no caballo brioso-, no tiene ni un pelo de tonta. ¡Ni uno! Es una vaca notablemente Omega, y nada Alfa. Y tiene una voz interior, y...
El polizón del "Ulises"
AuthorAna María Matute
Jujú pasa las tardes en el desván de la casa, que se ha convertido en su barco, el Ulises, la señorita Florentina (una paloma) y su fiel Contramaestre (un perrito) le acompañan en todas sus aventuras. Los días de Jujú son más bien aburridos. Le han criado tres tías solteronas, que le encontraron...
The Red Shoe
AuthorUrsula Dubosarsky
ISBN1596432659
Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking...
The Wool-Pack
AuthorCynthia Harnett
ISBN0140301534
Considering how important the wool trade was to the development of early-modern Britain, it is surprising how few novels deal with the business of wool. Those written for young readers are even scarcer. The Wool-Pack helps fill the gap.

This is historical fiction rather than history, written...
By the River
AuthorSteven Herrick
ISBN1932425721
Through rich, vivid poetry, Harry Hodby brings readers into his remote Australian town. He documents the mundane and unique qualities of daily life and the quirkiness of the townspeople, and gives a lively sense of locale. Three-dimensional characters come alive as Harry offers his insightful take...
Rocco
AuthorSherryl Jordan
ISBN1869435842
Rocco has suddenly appeared in a different time and in an unknown location - in the valley Anshur, where he's taken in by a primitive tribe, whose members live closely connected to nature. He is challenged in everything he knows and all his abilities - in everything he brings with him from his usual, modern...
Enid
AuthorMalika Ferdjoukh
ISBN2211069576
Enid doit faire dix-sept pas de l’abribus jusqu’à l’impasse de l’Atlantique qui mène à sa maison, la Vill’Hervé. Un de moins que l’automne dernier. La preuve que ses jambes allongent, donc qu’elle a grandi. N’empêche qu’elle est toujours la plus petite des cinq sœurs Verdelaine....
In Lane Three, Alex Archer
AuthorTessa Duder
ISBN0553290207
'I have always known that in another life I was-or will be-a dolphin. I am a pink human, caught in a net of ambition and years of hard work. In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I'll either be ecstatic or a failure.'Fifteen-year-old swimming champ...
Dougy
AuthorJames Moloney
ISBN0702224995
When Dougy's sister Gracey is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: black...
Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles
AuthorZep
ISBN2723415937
C'est pô vrai ? Vous connaissez pô Titeuf ? C'est nul, ça. Méganul, même. J'sais pô, moi, faites un effort, quand même. Avec sa bouille toute ronde et sa touffe blonde dressée sur le crâne, c'est un héros moderne des cours de récré. À la fois naïf, plein d'enthousiasme et gentil comme...
See Ya, Simon
AuthorDavid Hill
ISBN0140370560
See Ya Simon is the kind of book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime.

While reading See Ya Simon I fell in love with both Simon and Nathan, they are both really great guys and the best friends that could ever exist. All of the characters are that great.

This book is relatively...
A Pack of Lies
AuthorGeraldine McCaughrean
ISBN0192752030
Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques, and his stories persuade the customers to buy the items he talks about, but everything he says is a pack of lies. Isn't it?

The story of Ailsa and...
Jan, mein Freund
AuthorPeter Pohl
Jan fällt auf. Weil er artistisch Fahrrad fahren kann, rote Haare hat und so weiche Gesichtszüge, dass viele ihn für ein Mädchen halten. Doch er kann auch so zuschlagen, dass er bald vor jeder Anpöbelei sicher ist. Da ist aber noch ein Geheimnis um Jan. Niemand kennt seine Adresse und seinen Nachnamen...
The Hollow Tree
AuthorJanet Lunn
ISBN0142301426
From one of Canada's best loved children's writers comes the enthralling tale of a brave young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War. It is 1777 and Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the horrors of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged for being a British spy. When she finds a message...
Strange Objects
AuthorGary Crew
ISBN1863301135
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
With Clive in India
AuthorG.A. Henty
ISBN1406813168
Just because something was written over a century ago, that does not mean it was written well. That has been hammered home in ‘With Clive in India’.

It is one of the books freely available on ManyBooks.net, though I picked my copy up a few years ago in Poundland. Three nineteenth-century...
Looking At The Moon
AuthorKit Pearson
ISBN0140348522
Norah, an English "war guest" living with the wealthy Ogilvie family in Toronto, can hardly wait for August. She'll spend it at the Ogilvie's lavish cottage in Muskoka—a whole month of freedom, swimming, adventures with her "cousins"... But this isn't an ordinary summer. It's 1943, and the war is...
The Druid's Tune
AuthorO.R. Melling
ISBN0862782856
I originally read this book back before I was a teenager, though I can't remember exactly when it was. What I do remember is it was this story that started a absolute love of reading. I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful aunt who always bought me books, and always bought me GREAT books. This was one of...
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