18 books like Dingoes at Dinnertime
My father's dragon
A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Shares: Rescues, Animals, Adventure, Fantasy
Warriors of Alavna
While walking through a yellow mist, two fifteen-year-old classmates are transported to a world that resembles Roman Britain during the first century A.D, where they witness real magic and join a tribe of Celtic warriors as they battle Roman invaders.
Shares: Space and time, Magic, Children's fiction
Tarka the Otter
Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a highly influential novel by Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928 and remains Willamson's best-known and most popular work, having never been out of print since first publication.
As its title…
Shares: Zoology, Animals, Children's fiction
Burning for revenge (Tomorrow #5)
Having been separated from the New Zealand rescue troops they were guiding, five Australian teenagers continue their resistance against the unknown enemy invading their homeland.
Shares: Australia, Adventure, Children's fiction
Puck of Pook's Hill
The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, …
Shares: Space and time, Adventure, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Lions at Lunchtime
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
Shares: Zoology, Animals, Magic, Children's fiction
Dragon Magic
A Hidden Treasure
Sig, Artie, Kim, and Ras live in the same neighborhood and go to the same school, but they have nothing in common…until each of them sneaks into the old abandoned house on the corner and discovers the strange puzzle box covered with pictures of four dragons. Drawn by powerful magic, the boys find themselves bound together by a mystery that will transform them all—and transport…
Shares: Space and time, Magic, Children's fiction
The Magic Bed-Knob (Bedknobs and Broomsticks #1)
With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century.
Shares: Space and time, Magic, Children's fiction
Dead of the night (Tomorrow #2)
Six determined Australian teenagers try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
Shares: Australia, Children's fiction
When the war began (Tomorrow #1)
This is a great book for young teens/adults it has a few inappropriate seen's for younger people but other than that it is great
I Give it 5/5 stars
Shares: Australia, Children's fiction
Vacation Under the Volcano
Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.
Shares: Space and time, Brothers and sisters, Magic, Children's fiction
Circle of heroes
Human magic in Vastia is still gone, and as the familiars begin their journey to find the seven animals needed to summon the Shifting Fortress, an army of the Dead besieges the city of Bridgetower, destroying the first of three glyph stones, the only places where the Shifting Fortress can be called from. They escape, but are forced to leave the bounty hunter, Grimslade, behind. The familiars…
Shares: Animals, Magic, Adventure, Fantasy
Seeds of Rebellion
After Jason succeeds in finding a way back to Lyrian, he's immediately in more danger than ever. Meanwhile, Rachel and the others have made their own progress--as well as discovered new enemies. As the group ultimately rejoins, they strive to convince their most needed ally to join the war and form a rebellion strong enough to triumph against the emperor.
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Shares: Space and time, Magic, Adventure, Fantasy
The Dragon of Lonely Island Reissue (Dragon of Lonely Island)
Three children spend the summer with their mother on a secluded island where they discover a three-headed dragon living in a cave and learn what it means to be a Dragon Friend.
Shares: Brothers and sisters, Magic, Adventure, Children's fiction
The raven's ring pin
After his father moves the family so that he can be winter caretaker at Yellowstone's Geyser Inn, fifteen-year-old Samuel is lonely and miserable until he encounters two ravens with a magic pin and he is transported to a place and time inhabited by characters from Norse mythology.
Shares: Space and time, Magic, Children's fiction
The other side of dawn (Tomorrow #7)
The Other Side of Dawn is the long-awaited, riveting, final title in the Tomorrow series about a group of teenagers in war-torn Australia. Since their home was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her friends have been fighting for their lives. They have learned survival skills out of necessity and taken care of each other through impossibly dark times. Now, with a…
Shares: Australia, Children's fiction
A Walk in Wolf Wood
When a weeping man in a strange costume passes their picnic spot and disappears into the nearby woods, a brother and sister decide to follow him and soon find themselves involved in the rescue of a werewolf in the 14th century.
Shares: Space and time, Children's fiction
The red sun
"Sam Baron is about to get the shock of his life. First his substitute English teacher claims to have turned his old teacher into a lizard; then a strange dwarf named Rego arrives and claims Sam is from a magical realm called Orkney. When his friends are taken prisoner, it's up to Sam to save them. Sam embarks on a journey to Orkney through a stonefire to find his friends, but when he arrives, he…
Shares: Magic, Adventure, Fantasy, Children's fiction