Tulku
10 best books like Tulku (Peter Dickinson): The Ladies of Mandrigyn, The Palace of Glass, The Mad Apprentice, The Forbidden Library, The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life, The Skylarks’ War, In an Antique Land, The Demon Headmaster, Goggle-Eyes, The Labyrinth Makers
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0345309197 |
I really enjoyed The Ladies of Mandrigyn way more than I expected to. It's kind of an old school sword and sorcery type fantasy, written in the 80s, but I didn't think it felt too dated.
There are two main POVs. One is Sun Wolf, the captain of a band of mercenaries. His story is interesting because...
Executive Summary: This series keeps getting better. I find it a bit funny that I don't seem to like most young adult books, but am really enjoying a Middle Grade series so much. I guess it goes to show that story is all. 4.5 stars.
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Much like his Shadow Campaign series, I'm enjoying...
| Author | Django Wexler |
| ISBN | 0803739761 |
When Alice's mysterious Uncle Geryon sends her to help capture a rogue apprentice--a boy who has the same ability Alice has to Read himself into stories--she knows to expect a wild and unpredictable trip. But even though Alice has visited the magical realms inside libraries before, this adventure...
| Author | Django Wexler |
| ISBN | 0803739753 |
The Forbidden Library kicks off an action-packed fantasy series with classic appeal, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes--perfect for fans of Story Thieves, Coraline, Inkheart, and Harry Potter.
Alice always thought fairy tales had...
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,...
| Author | Hilary McKay |
| ISBN | 1509894942 |
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,...
| Author | Amitav Ghosh |
| ISBN | 0679727833 |
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But...
| Author | Gillian Cross |
| ISBN | 0192753746 |
...and by Demon Cross really means Mean and Scary. There are no actual demonic entities, and no souls are eternally damned in the making of this book.
In fact, it isn't even very scary -- rather unrealistically so, given the premise. I mean, imagine you are little kid at a new school. Your new foster...
| Author | Anne Fine |
| ISBN | 0140340718 |
"Growing up is a long and confusing business. I try to show that the battle through the chaos is worthwhile and can, at times, be seen as very funny" (Fine, 1994.)
I recall reading this book in year five and feeling really grown up; it was and still is more of a mature take on children’s literature....
| Author | Anthony Price |
| ISBN | 0708814964 |
David Audley is an unlikely spy. True, he works for England's Ministry of Defense, but strictly as a back-room man, doing meticulous research on the Middle East. This new assignment, then, comes as something of a surprise: A WWII-era British cargo place has been discovered at the bottom of a drained...
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
| Author | Natalie Dykstra |
| ISBN | 0618873856 |
The hidden story of one of the most fascinating women of the Gilded Age
Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where...
Kingdom of Needle and Bone
We live in an age of wonders.
Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. Vaccination and treatment are widely available, not held in reserve for the chosen few. There are still...
What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? What might they reveal...
| Author | Django Wexler |
| ISBN | 0399539204 |
The final book in the exciting fantasy adventure series featuring a strong heroine who grows from reader to leader in a world where magic is contained and controlled through books.
When Alice defeated her uncle Geryon and declared war on the totalitarian ways of the Old Readers, she knew she...
| Author | Anthony Price |
| ISBN | 0445402547 |
One of the better Audley books. Set just after the Suez crisis, this is chronologically the fourth in the series. The main character, Captain Roche, is morally ambiguous but ends up trying to do the right thing. The historical setting, just post-Suez, post-Hungary and during the Algerian war, is distant...
| Author | Jane Aiken Hodge |
| ISBN | 0755109619 |
A holiday coach tour — or a Greek Nightmare?
Marian and Stella were strangers when they met at the airport, ready to depart for Athens and the Mercury bus tour of Greece. Marian, plagued by bitter memories from the past, was nominally in charge of her young companion.
But this was no...
| Author | Anthony Price |
| ISBN | 0445402237 |
The Assassin — He was right at home in Alamut. It was there, in Northern Persia in the eleventh century, that the sect of the Assassins began at Hashashin Castle. And it is from there today that a new killer comes to spread murder throughout the Middle East. From the moment the classic car belonging to...
I first read this crime/spy novel; winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award, after hearing Alison Plowden’s really excellent 90min 1979 adaptation for BBC Radio, starring Martin Jarvis. Price sets his book in the present-day (1974); with a tightly written plot relating to the Somme in 1916, specifically...
