Lynne Reid Banks
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 3
Language
English
Description
In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups' discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West which the cupboard enables them to enter.
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 2
Language
English
Description
A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard."
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1940 as war rages across Europe, ten-year-old Lindy, waves goodbye to England and makes the long journey to Saskatoon, Canada, along with her mother and her cousin Cameron. They may be far from the war but they are also far from home and everyone they know and love. Life in Canada is very different but it is also full of exciting new adventures.
10) The magic hare
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A hare uses his magic to help a lot of people and animals.
Author
Series
Harry the poisonous centipede volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The further adventures of Harry and George, two young poisonous centipedes, as they travel across the sea to a mysterious new land filled with dangerous hoo-mins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother, and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.
Author
Series
Harry the poisonous centipede volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Harry, a young centipede, faces danger and frustration when he is captured by a hoo-min and placed in a jar.
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
1960
Language
English
Description
Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and even her landlady.
17) Tiger, tiger
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum.
19) La llave mágica
Author
Series
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
1995
Language
Español
Description
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
20) One more river
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lesley is upset when her parents abandon their comfortable life in Canada for a kibbutz in Israel prior to the 1967 war.