18 books like Blizzard Of the Blue Moon
Thanksgiving on Thursday
Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.
Shares: Jack, Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel
Revolutionary War on Wednesday
Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
Shares: Jack, Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel
Dinosaurs Before Dark
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
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German-language description:
Ein Baumhaus mitten im Wald, wie aufregend! Neugierig klettern Anne und Philipp die Strickleiter hinauf. Wem es wohl gehört? Doch plötzlich beginnt das Baumhaus, sich wild zu drehen. Immer schneller und…
Shares: Dinosaurs, Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
"The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The Marathon Dance Craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money--dancing the hours away for cash. But, the underside of that Craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. [author's] classic American story captures that dark side in this powerful…
Shares: Depressions, United States
Sunset of the Sabertooth
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Shares: Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic
A good night for ghosts
Jack and Annie are on their second mission to find--and inspire--artists to bring happiness to millions. After traveling to New Orleans, Jack and Annie come head to head with some real ghosts, as well as discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong!From the Hardcover edition.
Shares: Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic
The house of Daniel
In a Depression-era America that is woven with magic, zombies, and flying carpets, a down-and-out man escapes a local thug by joining a barnstorming minor league baseball team.
Shares: Depressions, United States, Magic
Fallen angels
Jeb Nubey hides a secret about his past that has left him alienated from his family and hiding from the law.
Shares: Depressions, Brothers and sisters
Winnie's Dinosaur Day
Winnie loves the nearby museum. It's full of fascinating things, especially in the dinosaur room. When an exciting competition is announced to draw or make a model of a dinosaur Winnie can't wait to take part. But what did dinosaurs look like? Winnie waves her magic wand to transport herself and Wilbur back into the time of the dinosaurs . . .
Shares: Dinosaurs, Magic
The Four Winds
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is…
Shares: Depressions, History
The Lodger
The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to sweep London. The Buntings become engrossed in the newspaper sensationalism as well the detailed accounts of their young friend, a Scotland Yard…
Shares: Jack, History
Seventh Son
In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him.
Age rating: 10+
Shares: Brothers and sisters, United States, Magic, History
Leprechaun in late winter
Jack and Annie are on their third mission to find (and inspire!) creative people to bring happiness to others through the arts (Mozart and Louis Armstrong so far). Set in Ireland, Jack and Annie meet an Irish girl and go on a magical adventure that changes the girl's life--she grows up to be Lady Gregory, who helped bring back the Irish legends, started a theater, and helped the Irish people…
Shares: Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic
The Magic Kingdom of Landover
An acorn falls far from the treeFormer Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was very proud and quite happy. And why shouldn't he be? The Magic Kingdom which he ruled as High Lord was finally at peace. He was free to lie back and watch as his new daughter grew.And grow she did--by leaps and bournds, shooting through infancy in a matter of months. She took her first steps and learned to swim in the same…
Shares: Unicorns, Magic
Portrait of a Killer
"Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper.".
"For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth of…
Shares: Jack, History
Time and Again
[Comment by Audrey Niffenegger, on The Guardian's website][1]:
Time and Again is an original; there is nothing quite like it. It is the story of Si Morley, a commercial artist who is drawing a piece of soap one ordinary day in 1970 when a mysterious man from the US Army shows up at his Manhattan office to recruit him for a secret government project. The project turns out to involve time travel;…
Shares: New york, Time Travel, History
The Unicorn
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a number of weird mysteries and involved in a drama she only partly understands.
Shares: Unicorns, Magic
Buffalo Before Breakfast
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
Shares: Tree houses, Time Travel, Magic