Urchin and the Heartstone
10 best books like Urchin and the Heartstone (M.I. McAllister): Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss, Goddess Tithe, Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, Doomwyte, The Magic Nesting Doll, Ereth's Birthday, Black Dragon Codex, Corby Flood, Alien on a Rampage, Kestrel's Midnight Song
| Author | Danica McKellar |
| ISBN | 1594630496 |
McKellar got me to do something I thought I would never do - like math! Her lessons are the most intelligible and creative I've seen. I'm an adult trying to bulk up my puny math skills and the examples focusing on the everyday usefulness of pre-algebra (for example, using the distributive property to avoid...
| Author | Anne Elisabeth Stengl |
| ISBN | 0989447804 |
The vengeful Goddess demands her tithe
When a stowaway is discovered aboard the merchant ship Kulap Kanya, Munny, a cabin boy on his first voyage, knows what must be done. All stowaways are sacrificed to Risafeth, the evil goddess of the sea. Such is her right, and the Kulap Kanya's only hope...
| Author | Maira Kalman |
| ISBN | 0142403628 |
The John J. Harvey fireboat was the largest, fastest, shiniest fireboatof its time, but by 1995, the city didn't need old fireboats anymore. So the Harvey retired, until a group of friends decided to save it from the scrap heap. Then, one sunny September day in 2001, something so horrible happened that...
| Author | Brian Jacques |
| ISBN | 0399245448 |
On a moonless night, two rats follow hypnotic lights into the forest, never to be seen again. Such is the power of the Doomwytes, sinister ravens led by the deadly Korvus Skurr. And when the young mouse Bisky persuades the creatures of Redwall Abbey to go in search of a fabled treasure, hidden long ago by...
| Author | Jacqueline K. Ogburn |
| ISBN | 0803724144 |
Katya's grandmother took a little matryoshka, a nesting doll, out of a small box. "If your need is great, open the doll and help will come. But you may only do so three times. After that the magic will be gone." A wicked spell has changed a handsome young prince to a pale glassy figure made of "living ice,"...
Erethizon Dorsatum—better known as Ereth, the self-centered, foul-tempered old porcupine—is having a birthday. And he fully expects his best friend Poppy, a deer mouse, to help him celebrate in a grand manner. But Poppy has gone off somewhere with her husband, Rye, and it appears she has forgotten...
| Author | R.D. Henham |
| ISBN | 0786949724 |
What happens when an evil black dragon becomes your ally?
Snatched from the street by a young black dragon, Satia seems destined to end her life as a snack. But her position as a menu item quickly changes when her black dragon captor runs into two young red dragons and a wanna-be Dragonlord. In...
| Author | Paul Stewart |
| ISBN | 0385750900 |
The second magical, funny, and fabulously illustrated story in the Far Flung Adventures from the authors of Fergus Crane and the Edge Chronicles.
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed...
| Author | Clete Barrett Smith |
| ISBN | 1423134486 |
David is looking forward to spending another adventure-filled summer at his grandmother's Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast-a vacation hotspot for aliens. But as soon as he meets Grandma's new repairman, an alien named Scratchull, he becoms suspicious. The only problem is that it is difficult...
| Author | J.R. Parker |
| ISBN | 0615366503 |
The land of Gable--renowned for its birds, revered for its legends and secrets--is home to the grandest castle in the known world. Inside this castle, in a narrow cell atop the dungeon tower, the legendary Marauder known as James Kestrel awaits his hanging. Amidst the anticipation and speculation...
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 1596431539 |
The hero of the Brotherhood of the Conch series, now fifteen, is settling back into his life as an apprentice in the lush Silver Valley, nestled high in the Himalayas. There he continues to learn the secret arts of the Brotherhood. But suddenly his adopted home is reduced to a barren wasteland when his...
Part of Michelle Knudsen's exciting fantasy trilogy -- in a luminous paperback edition
Meg will soon be named the princess-heir of Trelian, but her connection to her dragon, Jakl, is making her parents' subjects uneasy. Calen is about to receive his first true mage's mark, but the ceremony...
| Author | Ashley Spires |
| ISBN | 1554537681 |
A NetGalley first reads
The author of this review received an advance copy for an honest review
A clever story for children, "Binky Takes Charge," follows the continuing adventures of Binky the Space cat (though I haven't read the others and apparently you don't need to have read the...
| Author | Dugald A. Steer |
| ISBN | 0763634271 |
When their dragon chick is kidnapped, two young dragonologists must team up with the Guardian Dragon’s apprentice - and race against time - as the fire-breathing series continues!
As the third volume in the Dragonology Chronicles begins, Daniel and Beatrice Cook, along with their parents...
“Er han død?”
Clara tør næsten ikke spørge, for det er hendes egen vildven Kat det gælder. Hans liv hænger i en spindelvævstynd tråd, og hvis Clara vil redde ham, må hun følge et spor der fører hende lige i kløerne på dødsfjenden Kimæra …
Kimæras hævn er tredje bog...
Landon Snow and the Auctor's Riddle
| Author | R.K. Mortenson |
| ISBN | 1593108818 |
DON'T FALL IN.
{THIS BOOK MAY SWALLOW.}
Just ask Landon Snow.
He could tell you all about being swallowed by a book.
Or falling from the sky on horseback.
Or fleeing a hail of arrows through an enchanted forest.
Or watching a gigantic gold coin flipping into the sky.
And...
