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10 best books like Until the Celebration (Zilpha Keatley Snyder): A Billion for Boris, The Empty Kingdom, The Princess in the Pigpen, Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom, R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH, The Talking Earth, The Magic Three of Solatia, The Heavenward Path, Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat, Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga

A Billion for Boris
AuthorMary Rodgers
Things are back to normal for Annabel Andrews since that freaky Friday when she switched bodies with her mother. She is still in love with Boris, her cute friend from upstairs, and she is still annoyed by her pesky little brother, Ape Face. But normal doesn't last long in the Andrews household!

When...
The Empty Kingdom
AuthorElizabeth E. Wein
ISBN0670062731
In The Lion Hunter, Telemakos, the half-British, half-Aksumite grandson of King Arthur, was sent for his safety to stay with one of Aksum's former enemies. When Abreha, ruler of Himyar, allegedly the boy's protector, catches him in the midst of what appears to be treachery, he sentences him to a fate...
The Princess in the Pigpen
AuthorJane Resh Thomas
ISBN0395515874
I'm not eight. But I liked this book anyway.
This is one of those books that is short enough and easy enough for younger children, but still has some meat on it and some history thrown in, without being preachy. I'm starting to detest all those little fairy books and unicorn books, so this books came...
Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom
AuthorBeth Hilgartner
ISBN0395502144
At first Alexandra thought it was a dream. She would just lie there in the forest, quite still, until she really woke up. But the birdlike little girl tugged at her hand again. She tried to explain: "I'm Zan, and I'm lost." The little girl only smiled, clearly not understanding.

That was how Alexandra...
R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH
AuthorJane Leslie Conly
ISBN0064403874
When Margaret and her younger brother, Artie, get lost in the woods on a family camping trip, they are rescued by rats -- the superintelligent rats of NIMH. Taken into the rat's community, the children are safe for the time being. But winter is coming. Margaret and Artie have to get back home. And when they...
The Talking Earth
AuthorJean Craighead George
ISBN0064402126
"Billie Wind lives with her Seminole tribe. She follows their customs, but the dangers of pollution and nuclear war she's learned about in school seem much more real to her. How can she believe the Seminole legends about talking animals and earth spirits? She wants answers, not legends."You are a doubter,"say...
The Magic Three of Solatia
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0765348071
Three silver buttons...three magic wishes

Once there was Melinna, a mermaid who loved a prince. She shed her tail, walked painfully upon the land, and followed him up the hundred steps to his father’s hall. There she gave him a coat with three silver buttons that had come from the depths of...
The Heavenward Path
AuthorKara Dalkey
Mitsuko is being haunted by ghosts and bad luck. An angry spirit commands her to keep a forgotten promise and assigns her a series of impossible tasks. She turns to the mischievous shape-shifter Goranu for help. Together they journey through a landscape of Japanese myths and legends made real. This...
Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat
AuthorBarbara Sleigh
ISBN0140311874
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy

“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga
AuthorHelen Cresswell
ISBN0027255506
Bad, mad and brilliant to know - the Bagthorpes are back! Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever since Uncle Parker won a luxury cruise, they've alll gone competition crazy. There isn't an unfilled entry form to be found and they're scrawling "winning" slogans...
Lizard Music
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0440413192
I had lizards when I was young, so it stands to reason that a book titled “Lizard Music” would appeal. With allergies to fur and feather, but a fondness for all things non-Hexopod, lizards were an obvious option (well, to me at least; I can hear you dissenters. Let this be a warning to those with children)....
Mennyms Under Siege
AuthorSylvia Waugh
ISBN0380725843
Sixteen-year-old Pilbeam may have made a terrible mistake. Living with her large family at 5 Brocklehurst Grove is wonderful in many ways, but remaining isolated from the rest of the world has become too much to bear. So Pilbeam decides that, whatever the consequences, she will go to the theater, and...
The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism
AuthorRobert A. Greenberg
ISBN0393094154
Backgrounds includes correspondence between Swift and members of his circle and observations by his contemporaries Criticism offers evaluations by Norman O. Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan Bloom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., A. E. Dyson, William Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams,...
The Switchers Trilogy
AuthorKate Thompson
`One of the best books of the year' said the Guardian when Switchers was published and it received outstanding critical acclaim, followed by great sales. Kate Thompson went on to write two more unputdownable sequels Midnight`s Choice and Wild Blood, featuring Tess and Kevin, and here are all three...
The Sable Moon
AuthorNancy Springer
A headstrong young prince, enslaved far from home, must rescue his imperiled kingdom and those he loves from an ancient dark sorcery in Nancy Springer’s magnificent third entry in the Book of Isle

The life of young Prince Trevyn of Isle changes forever on the day a mysterious boy named Gwern...
The Demon Breed
AuthorJames H. Schmitz
Real Rating: 3.5* of five
I read this as part of a collection of Schmitz's work, The Hub: Dangerous Territory
In 1968, this book's original version appeared as a two-part novella called "The Tuvela" (which title I prefer) in Analog magazine. The author was, at that time, fifty-seven. He had...
Up the Faraway Tree
AuthorEnid Blyton
ISBN0600205215
The final book in the extraordinary Faraway Tree series, published as a stand-alone edition for the first time in more than three decades! One day, Robin and Joy read about the Magic Faraway Tree in a book and decide to go meet Joe, Beth and Frannie themselves. The five children have all sorts of exciting...
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