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10 best books like Time of the Witches (Anna Myers): The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness, Tiger Moon, The Skylarks’ War, Switch, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850, Children of the Great Depression, The Possibilities of Sainthood, A Stranger at Green Knowe, All's Fairy in Love and War

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
AuthorH.G. Parry
ISBN0316452718
The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library.

For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't...
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness
AuthorNahoko Uehashi
ISBN0545102952
Balsa returns to her native Kanbal to clear the name of Jiguro, her dear mentor, who saved her life when she was six years old. But what should be a visit of truth and reconciliation becomes a fight for her life when she learns that Jiguro had been a member of King Rogsam's personal bodyguard. After Jiguro...
Tiger Moon
AuthorAntonia Michaelis
Fate brings together a talking tiger, a doomed princess, and a rascally thief in a thrilling, old-fashioned tale from an exciting, internationally acclaimed new talent.

How does a story of India begin?

Does it begin with the three rivers—the Ganges, the Yamuna, the unseen Sarasvati...
The Skylarks’ War
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN1509894942
Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September - boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father,...
Switch
AuthorCarol Snow
ISBN0061452084
Claire Martin has some serious body issues.

Not much happens in Claire's sleepy beach town, but that's okay. All she wants is to hang out with her best friend, make the high school swim team, and convince Nate, the guy of her dreams, to stop calling her "Dude." And, oh--she'd really, really like...
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN0618548831
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people.

Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish...
Children of the Great Depression
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0618446303
As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose...
The Possibilities of Sainthood
AuthorDonna Freitas
ISBN0374360871
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...
A Stranger at Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
ISBN0152025898
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
All's Fairy in Love and War
AuthorRachel Roberts
Kara's got a problem. She can't control her magic.

Kara's got a plan. She won't use it!

She'll go back to what she does best: Being pretty, popular, and performing the lead role in the school play. Emily and Adriane, her best mage friends, can deal without her.

But the magic has...
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
AuthorJerry Stanley
ISBN0517880946
I was surprised at how this book affected me. I thought it would just be a nice, quick lesson in the Dust Bowl migration. It turned out to be a lesson in humanity.

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp is very short. The first half gives the historic background and...
Crazy Beautiful
AuthorLauren Baratz-Logsted
ISBN0547223072
In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn’t outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself.

Then he meets Aurora....
Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck
AuthorDale E. Basye
In the second installment of the popular series, Heck, Dale E. Basye takes Milton and Marlo Fauster on a journey that is as clever, as laugh-out-loud funny, and as satisfying as the first.

Welcome to Rapacia, where the greedy kids go . . .

When Milton escapes from Heck in a soul balloon...
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN1416903151
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing,...
The Dark Flight Down
AuthorMarcus Sedgwick
In the morning you should think
You might not last unto the night
In the evening you should think
You might not last unto the morn


Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic, and deadly chases, but he is still on the run. Now, as the City lies frozen,...
Eruption
AuthorRoland Smith
ISBN0545081742
The explosive conclusion to Roland Smith's fast-paced action series!

The adventures aren't over yet for Chase Masters and his dad. In this third installment, Chase heads south of the border with his friend Nicole Rossi to track down the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants...
Tinder
AuthorSally Gardner
ISBN1780621493
A young soldier, a captive princess, witches, wolves and Death walk hand in hand in COSTA AWARD winner Sally Gardner's exquisitely written new novel inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, THE TINDERBOX, illustrated by David Roberts.

Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he...
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