Written in Stone

10 best books like Written in Stone (Rosanne Parry): Devil's Cub, Song for a Whale, Zita the Spacegirl, The Return of Zita the Spacegirl, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, Just Like Jackie, A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, The Dam Keeper, Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells

Devil's Cub

Author	Georgette Heyer
ISBN	0099465833

Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, has established a rakish reputation that rivals his father's, living a life of excess and indulgence. He is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe...

Song for a Whale

Author

Lynne Kelly

In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the journey she takes to help him.

From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech...

Zita the Spacegirl

Author	Ben Hatke
ISBN	1596434465

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Zita's life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye.

When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new...

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl

Author	Ben Hatke
ISBN	1596438762

Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure in this New York Times-Bestselling graphic novel trilogy for middle grade readers.

Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she...

Mighty Jack and the Goblin King

Author	Ben Hatke
ISBN	1626722668

Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone — carried into another realm by an ogre.

When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy’s captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power...

Just Like Jackie

Author	Lindsey Stoddard
ISBN	0062652915

For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it’s just been her and Grandpa. Robbie knows they look like an odd pair, because her blond hair and pale skin don’t match his dark complexion—but those differences don’t mean anything to her. And though she wishes Grandpa would tell her more about the...

A Big Mooncake for Little Star

Author	Grace Lin
ISBN	0316404489

A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin

Pat, pat, pat...

Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake.

Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she...

Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

Author	William Stevenson
ISBN	1559707631

A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising...

The Dam Keeper

Author	Robert Kondo
ISBN	1626724261

Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig’s father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant inventor did...

Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells

Author	Pico Iyer
ISBN	0451493931

From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.

For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko,...

Little Robot

Author	Ben Hatke
ISBN	1626720800

Another very impressive book by Ben Hatke.

Not just a delightfully good graphic novel that will be a delight for kids, but this one has a *very* minimal verbal content, which is exceptionally hard to pull off.

That said, the lack of a strong textual component means that this book is readable...

Remarkably You

Author

Pat Zietlow Miller

Pat Zietlow Miller celebrates individuality in her picture book about the beauty of being yourself.

Remarkably You is a manifesto about all of the things—little or small, loud or quiet—that make us who we are.

You might go unnoticed, or shine like a star,
but wherever you...

Right as Rain

Author

Lindsey Stoddard

From the critically acclaimed author of Just Like Jackie comes a strikingly tender novel about one family’s heartbreak and the compassion that helps them heal.

It’s been almost a year since Rain’s brother Guthrie died, and her parents still have no idea that it’s all Rain’s fault....

Royal Escape

Author	Georgette Heyer
ISBN	0099476398

Dispossessed of crown and kingdom, crushed and routed at the grim Battle of Worcester, the young Charles II is forced to flee for his life. Out of the heat of battle, the outlaw King and his tiny party must journey across Cromwell's England to a Channel port and a ship bound for France and safety. But the...

Pistols For Two

Author

Georgette Heyer

Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; and affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades and duels at dawn: all the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely...