18 books like Flying High

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Calling the Shots Annie Dalton · 2002 · ★ 4.2 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Calling the Shots is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Janis Cole and Holly Dale and released in 1988.Christopher Hume, "Women zoom in on movie-making". Toronto Star, September 10, 1988. The film analyzes the changing role of women in the film industry, through the reflections of various female performers and filmmakers.Jay Scott, "Calling the Shots/Comic Book Confidential: A documentary… Shares: Angels, Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Farmer Giles of Ham J.R.R. Tolkien · 1949 · ★ 3.9 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging In this fiftieth anniversary edition of the Tolkien classic, Farmer Giles, his mare, and his talking dog go into the valley of the Thames to fight the dragon Chrysophylax. Includes the author's previously unpublished notes for a sequel. Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Happy Birthday, Winnie! Valerie Thomas · 2007 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate It's Winnie's birthday and she's celebrating in style with a garden party. She uses all sorts of magic to invite the guests and transform her garden into the perfect party venue. There are presents to unwrap and games to play but then things start to go wrong when Winnie toots on the magic trumpet that cousin Cuthbert has given her. All her guests disappear! Winnie's party is suddenly in danger… Shares: Birthdays, Children's fiction

Maura's angel Lynne Reid Banks · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Just when her home life and the circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity. Shares: Angels, Children's fiction

The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks · 1980 · ★ 3.9 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate What could be better than a magic cupboard that turns small toys into living creatures? Omri's big brother has no birthday present for him, so he gives Omri an old medicine cabinet he's found. Although their mother supplies a key, the cabinet still doesn't seem like much of a present. But when an exhausted Omri dumps a plastic toy Indian into the cabinet just before falling asleep, the magic… Shares: Birthdays, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Guinevere Cheryl Carpinello · 2009 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Fun Birthday? Not for this soon-to-be thirteen-year-old princess.Never mind that she frequently ended up in trouble. After this birthday, no more fun. Just boring work.Guinevere and Cedwyn loved adventure, exploring, even ending up in trouble.The king—her father—told her numerous times play ended here.A Medieval coming-of-age story. Shares: Birthdays, Children's fiction

Missing Angel Juan Francesca Lia Block · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Witch Baby follows Angel Juan to New York City and meets the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie Bat. Shares: Angels, Children's fiction

The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson · 1946 · ★ 3.6 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house… Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party Shannon Hale · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Today is Princess Magnolia’s birthday party, and she wants everything to be perfect. But just as her guests are arriving . . . Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Princess Magnolia runs to the broom closet, ditches her frilly clothes, and becomes the Princess in Black! She rushes to the goat pasture, defeats the monster, and returns to the castle before her guests discover her secret. But every… Shares: Birthdays, Children's fiction

Diabolical Cynthia Leitich Smith · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Stuck in a mysterious New England boarding school with an assortment of secretive students, disgraced angel Zachary and his werewolf friend, Kieren, face demon dogs, a sadistic instructor, and a legendary fire-breathing monster. Shares: Angels, Children's fiction

No Roses for Harry! Gene Zion · 1958 · ★ 4.3 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Harry the dog finds a graceful way to dispose of his new sweater with roses on it. Shares: Birthdays, Children's fiction

The Enchanted Wood Enid Blyton · 1939 · ★ 4.1 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Marvellous aventures in a wood with all their magic inhabitants. Shame two pages lacking... Shares: Birthdays, Children's fiction

Daughter of Smoke and Bone Laini Taylor · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known. Shares: Angels, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Dragon Magic Andre Norton · 1972 · ★ 3.8 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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: Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Eternal Cynthia Leitich Smith · 2009 · ★ 3.2 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At last, Miranda is the life of the party: all she had to do was die. Elevated by none other than the King of the Mantle of Dracul, she goes from high-school theater wannabe to glamorous fiend overnight. Meanwhile, her guardian angel, Zachary, demoted to human guise as her personal assistant, has his hands full saving his girl's soul while planning a fast-approaching Death Day gala. In… Shares: Angels, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet #2 Madeleine L'Engle · 1973 · ★ 4.0 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet). It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher… Shares: Angels, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

The box of delights, or When the wolves were running John Masefield · 1935 · ★ 3.9 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Kay finds himself involved in a fantastic adventure when he becomes guardian of the mysterious Box of Delights. Shares: Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Here, There Be Dragons James A. Owen · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the… Shares: Time Travel, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

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