18 books like Goliath
Leviathan
Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker
Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men.
Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs.
Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship Levithan. Though fighting side by side,…
Shares: Imaginary creatures, Genetic Engineering, Princes, War
Behemoth
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
Shares: Imaginary creatures, Genetic Engineering, Princes, War stories
Twice Magic
Once there were Wizards, who were Magic, and Warriors, who were not ... except for two. Xar, son of the King of Wizards, can't cast a single spell. And Wish, daughter of the Warrior Queen, stumbles across gifts of her own. When they collide in the wildwood, on the trail of a deadly witch, it's the start of a grand adventure that just might change the fabric of their worlds.
Shares: Imaginary creatures, Princes, Children's fiction
The drowned cities
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Shares: Genetic Engineering, War stories, War, Science Fiction
Fang
Fang will be the first to die.
Maximum Ride is used to to living desperately on the run from evil forces sabotaging her quest to save the world - but nothing has ever come as close to destroying her as this horrifying prophetic message. Fang is Max's best friend, her soul mate, her partner in the leadership of her flock of winged children. A life without Fang is a life unimaginable.
But there…
Shares: Genetic Engineering, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
Shattered
A journey that begins with adventure soon plunges into the depths of one of Africa's darkest moments. The Shattered Pearl is the gripping memoir of Sara L. Armstrong, an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Born in Chicago, Sara joined the Peace Corps in 1966, driven by a hunger for exploration and service. Her travels led her to Uganda, where love and destiny…
Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction
Star wars
Masterfully drawn by artist Toshiki Kudo, this volume follows Luke Skywalker as he travels to meet Jedi Master Yoda while Han and Leia struggle to outrace the grip of Darth Vader. You wont want to miss out on this exquisite telling of the classic tale of betrayal and high-adventure.
Shares: War, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
Kings rising
"His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill...Forced into an uneasy alliance the two princes journey deep into Akielos, where they face their most dangerous opposition yet. But even if the fragile trust they have built survives the revelation of Damen's identity can it stand against the Regent's final, deadly play…
Shares: Princes, War, Children's fiction
Glint
Ellie and her little brother Danny spend their lonely days making up stories about a young girl in a world of dragons and shape-shifters, a girl as brave and cunning as they would like to be.Five years later Danny disappears. The police have no clues. They fear he is dead, but Ellie knows better. She also knows that she is the only one who can find him.At the same time, in the world Danny and…
Shares: Imaginary creatures, Children's fiction
The lighthouse war
Jamie and Ramsay figure out how to recharge the Salmon, the extraterrestrial device that allows them to travel through wormholes in space. Heading back to the planet Altair, Jamie discovers that the Witch Queen will do anything to get her hands on Jamie and the Salmon.
Shares: War stories, War, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
Bang, bang, you're dead
A group of children find that while play war can be fun, real war is no fun at all.
Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction
Amina's blanket
After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie's class.
Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction
The Final Warning
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Shares: Genetic Engineering, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
A history of glitter and blood
Sixteen-year-old Beckan and her friends are the only fairies brave enough to stay in Ferrum when war breaks out. Now there is tension between the immortal fairies, the subterranean gnomes, and the mysterious tightropers who arrived to liberate the fairies. But when Beckan's clan is forced to venture into the gnome underworld to survive, they find themselves tentatively forming unlikely…
Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction
The planet thieves
On a routine voyage aboard an Academy spaceship, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and his fellow cadets are attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war with humanity for the last sixty years.
Shares: War stories, War, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
A lion in the meadow
Mother didn't believe the little boy's tales about a dragon and lion in the meadow, but to the boy the creatures were very real.
Shares: Imaginary creatures, Children's fiction
Nevermore
One last chance ... for Max, Fang, and Dylan ... before it all ends. "Nevermore" is one last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming.
Shares: Genetic Engineering, Science Fiction, Children's fiction
Mothership
In 2074, while attending the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers aboard an earth-orbiting spaceship, sixteen-year-old Elvie finds herself in the middle of an alien race war and makes a startling discovery about her pregnancy.
Shares: War stories, War, Science Fiction, Children's fiction