Top Secret
9 best books like Top Secret (John Reynolds Gardiner): The Machine Stops, The Mosquito Coast, Are You Listening?, Ember Falls, Where I End and You Begin, The Body in the Woods, Lions and Liars, Cactus Hotel, Scorpions
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
After being voted one of the best novellas...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618658963 |
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer...
| Author | Tillie Walden |
| ISBN | 1250207568 |
Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou.
This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a mysterious cat joins them, and they are haunted by a group of threatening men. To...
| Author | S.D. Smith |
| ISBN | 0996436804 |
The stage is set. It's war. Morbin Blackhawk, slaver and tyrant, threatens to destroy the rabbit resistance forever. Heather and Picket are two young rabbits improbably thrust into pivotal roles.
The fragile alliance forged around the young heir seems certain to fail. Can Heather and Picket...
Where I End and You Begin
Ezra Slevin is an anxious, neurotic insomniac who spends his nights questioning his place in the universe and his days obsessing over Imogen, a nerdy girl with gigantic eyebrows and a heart of gold.
For weeks, Ezra has been working up the courage to invite Imogen to prom. The only problem is Imogen’s...
| Author | April Henry |
| ISBN | 0805098526 |
In this new series told from multiple perspectives, teen members of a search and rescue team discover a dead body in the woods.
Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have very different backgrounds: Alexis has spent her life covering for her mom’s mental illness, Nick’s bravado hides his fear of not being...
| Author | Kate Beasley |
| ISBN | 0374302634 |
Frederick Frederickson has a food-chain theory about life. There are lions, like the school bully. Gazelles, like the bullied kids. There are meerkats, and the fleas that live on the butts of meerkats. Frederick's a flea.
Fifth grade is off to a terrible start when Frederick is sent to a disciplinary...
| Author | Brenda Z. Guiberson |
| ISBN | 0805029605 |
Brenda Z. Guiberson’s The Cactus Hotel explores the life of a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert. Megan Lloyd’s illustrations show the various types of animals that create the multiple ecosystems surrounding a saguaro throughout its lifetime. The realistic fiction picture book begins with...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0064406237 |
Scorpions, a Newbery Honor Book by National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Walter Dean Myers, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary!
When it was first published in 1988, Scorpions amazed readers. It continues to do so today. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition...
