Time of the Witch
10 best books like Time of the Witch (Mary Downing Hahn): Weetzie Bat, Last Ones Left Alive, The Scourge, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board, Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies, Lockdown, Going Over, The Midnight Club, Nightmares!, Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story
| Author | Francesca Lia Block |
| ISBN | 0060736259 |
In 1989 Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade; Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has a sleek new design to match its new sister and brother books, Goat Girls and Beautiful Boys. Rediscover...
| Author | Sarah Davis-Goff |
| ISBN | 1472255208 |
LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE is the story of Orpen, a young woman who must walk on foot across a ravaged Ireland in the desperate hope of saving herself, and her guardian Maeve, from the zombie-like menace known as the skrake. Sarah Davis-Goff's strikingly original debut will appeal to readers of dystopian literary...
| Author | Jennifer A. Nielsen |
| ISBN | 0545682452 |
When a plague isn’t all that kills…
As a lethal plague sweeps through the land, Ani Mells is shocked when she is unexpectedly captured by the governor’s wardens and forced to submit to a test for the deadly Scourge. She is even more surprised when the test results come back positive, and...
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
| Author | Bethany Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1416503463 |
They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing—not even the loss of her arm—could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark’s...
Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0064403904 |
When a gorgeous seventh-grade boy moves across the street, Vicki is ecstatic-until she remembers her latest school assignment. For one week, Vicki and the rest of her sixth-grade class have to pretend they're parents and carry around five-pound bags of sugar dressed in baby clothes. And if he sees...
| Author | Alexander Gordon Smith |
| ISBN | 0374324913 |
Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind...
| Author | Beth Kephart |
| ISBN | 1452124574 |
Remember when I told you to read Code Name Verity and you did. You were like OMG, I CRIED, I DIED, IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER. So I want you to trust me again. Going Over is everything I wanted it to be and more. It was a look into the human condition, a Romeo and Juliet set in the 80s with two crazy kids in love on opposite...
Unique. Powerful. Sad.
The back blurb misleads potential buyers because with this type of book they would have expected creepiness. Instead the actual book is serious and potent. It's...well, it's a drama about death. Not only death but the possibilities of reincarnation and the connection...
| Author | Jason Segel |
| ISBN | 0385744250 |
Sleeping has never been so scary. And now waking up is even worse!
Charlie Laird has several problems:
1. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.
2. He had to move into her purple mansion, which is not a place you want to find yourself after dark.
3. He can’t remember...
Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295930 |
The book was about a girl,her name was Molly.Molly and the school were going on a camping trip.As soon as Molly arrives at the camp she loved the camp.She and her friends Linda and Susan spend two weeks of singing and hiking and canoeing.They all had so much fun together.One day the teacher said that she...
| Author | David Riche |
| ISBN | 1843400952 |
From the gothic fantasies of Amy Brown to Myrea Pettit’s gentle, playful creatures, this breathtaking collection of superbly reproduced paintings celebrates the finest in fairy art. Each illustrator has chosen his or her favorite pieces, and all the artists reveal their inspiration, preferred...
| Author | Lindsey Fraser |
| ISBN | 0439314550 |
The name J.K. Rowling is one that is on the lips of millions of readers worldwide, but before 1997 few people knew the brilliant woman behind the phenomenally successful Harry Potter books. And now, four books into the series, few yet know the real story of Ms. Rowling's childhood and career as a writer....
| Author | Marc Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0312272243 |
Harry Potter is loved throughout the world - so is his creator. Joanne Kathleen (J.K.) Rowling is a true wizard, a woman who has the ability to recall vividly her days as a child and capture those wild, wonderful, difficult times-an ability that helps make her creation, Harry Potter, seem so real. In this...
| Author | Lexie Elliott |
| ISBN | 0399586954 |
An eerie, old Scottish manor in the middle of nowhere that’s now hers.
Ailsa Calder has inherited half of a house. The other half belongs to a man who disappeared without a trace twenty-seven years ago—her father.
Leaving London behind to settle the inheritance from her mother’s...
| Author | Lucha Corpi |
| ISBN | 1558853561 |
Winner, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange 1992 Book Award of Excellence in Adult Fiction A Chicano Civil Rights march has been disrupted by the Los Angeles police, resulting in the grue-some death of a prominent reporter. The tear gas has barely...
Samantha Saves the Day: A Summer Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295922 |
Samantha Parkington is a bright Victorian beauty being raised by her wealthy grandmother in 1904. Samantha's stories describe her life during this important period of change. Her own world is filled with frills and finery, parties and play. But Samantha sees that times are not good for everybody....
Dead Scared: The Mortsafeman
Who knew the dead have more to fear from the living than the living have to fear from the dead? Certainly not seventeen-year-old Chris Chandler, not before his family moved to Bemishstock, Maine in the autumn of 1985.
His father’s job is to close plants for Allied Paper Products of Wisconsin....
Book Three in the STRANDED: SHADOW ISLAND trilogy--Companion series to the New York Times bestselling STRANDED adventures!
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From the Emmy-Award winning host of Survivor, Jeff Probst, with Middle School: The...
