Wren to the Rescue

10 best books like Wren to the Rescue (Sherwood Smith): The Sherwood Ring, Mairelon the Magician, The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady, Dragon's Milk, The Secret Country, Magic Below Stairs, The Dalemark Quartet, Vol. 1: Cart and Cwidder & Drowned Ammet, Hero's Song, The Kestrel, A Hidden Magic

The Sherwood Ring

Author	Elizabeth Marie Pope
ISBN	0618150749

Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteries and ghosts....

Mairelon the Magician

Author	Patricia C. Wrede
ISBN	0765342324

Kim doesn't hesitate when a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into the travelling magician's wagon in search of a silver bowl. Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London-disguised as a boy!-has schooled her in one hard lesson: steal...

The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady

Author	Gerald Morris
ISBN	0395912113

Squire Terence and Sir Gawain are off questing again, but this time their journey is overshadowed by their ultimate destination: Gawain is to meet up with the Green Knight in a contest that could easily lead to Gawain's death. Along the way the two have a slew of hair-raising adventures and encounter...

Dragon's Milk

Author	Susan Fletcher
ISBN	0689716230

"You must go to the dragon. You must leave tonight."

Before she even hears the words, Kaeldra already knows what she must do. She must search out the mother dragon whose draclings have just hatched and somehow get some of her precious milk. It's the only way to save her foster-sister's life. Kaeldra...

The Secret Country

Author	Pamela Dean
ISBN	0142501530

What happens when your fantasy world turns real...?

Each vacation for the past nine years, cousins Patrick, Ruth, Ellen, Ted, and Laura have played a game they call the “Secret”—and invented, scripted world full of witches, unicorns, a magic ring, court intrigue, and the Dragon King....

Magic Below Stairs

Author	Caroline Stevermer
ISBN	0803734670

Young Frederick is plucked from an orphanage to be a footboy for a wizard named Lord Schofield in Victorian England. Is his uncanny ability to tie perfect knots and render boots spotless a sign of his own magical talent, or the work of Billy Bly, the brownie who has been secretly watching over him since...

The Dalemark Quartet, Vol. 1: Cart and Cwidder & Drowned Ammet

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0060763698

It is a country divided by war. For centuries, the earldoms of the North and South have battled. Now, four young people from different times -- with the help of their mysterious gods, the Undying -- must unite to save their beloved land.

Traveling musician Moril has inherited a cwidder said to...

Hero's Song

Author	Edith Pattou
ISBN	0152055428

This is not Edith Pattou's best work ever but you still need to read it in order to fully apreciate the next book, Fire Arrow, which is just flat out spectacular.
This is the story of a boy named Collun who desperately needs to get over his cowardice in order to save his kidnapped sister from who knows...

The Kestrel

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0141310693

Theo is traveling through Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told him about the aristocracy's...

A Hidden Magic

Author	Vivian Vande Velde
ISBN	0152012001

Once upon a time there was a very nice but very plain princess named Jennifer, who, following proper fairy-tale protocol, fell for a very handsome but very conceited prince named Alexander. When Alexander offends a powerful witch, it falls to Jennifer to save him. In the course of doing so, she meets...

The Glass Swallow

Author	Julia Golding
ISBN	0192727621

UPDATE:

all done.

Well, four stars.

I was hoping for ... more. From this book. Dragonfly was a story of cruelty, survival, and clinging to faith when it's all you have. TGS just seems to be about a pretty girl who's good at getting her way.

Peri came across as...