18 books like Leprechaun in late winter
Dark Day in the Deep Sea
Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness--secrets they need if they're going to save Merlin. But when the magic tree house leads them to a tiny deserted island in the middle of the ocean, they're not sure who needs help more--Merlin or themselves! The brother and sister team are soon rescued by a ship of explorers and scientists. But the crew isn't looking for the secrets…
Shares: Tree houses in fiction, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Magic in fiction, Time travel in fiction
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: Time travel in fiction, Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel
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, Historical Fiction
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
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: Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic
Blizzard Of the Blue Moon
Merlin has sent Jack and Annie on another mission to rescue a beautiful magical creature, the unicorn. AC 44650.
Shares: Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic
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: Tree houses, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic
For us, the living
SciFi - Originally written in 1938-9 but never published, RAH's first novel is a raw work filled with themes used throughout his career. Perry Nelson, a Navy flier, is killed in an auto accident in 1938; he awakens in 2086 and spends the novel contrasting reality of 1938 with the semi-utopian 2086.
Shares: Time travel in fiction, Time Travel
Outlander
Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of…
Shares: Time travel in fiction, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
A Spell for Chameleon
Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs, dragons and basiliks.But poor Bink alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and fast - he would be exiled.
The Good Magician Humfrey was convined that Bink did indeed have magic, magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or Good Magician Humfrey…
Shares: Magic, Fantasy
Pan Michael An historical novel
The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving…
Shares: Historical Fiction, History
St. George and St. Michael
It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers…
Shares: Historical Fiction, History
La lenteur
After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French (in the eyes of the French public, turning him definitively into a "French…
Shares: Time travel in fiction, Time Travel
Stink
The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.
Shares: Brothers and sisters in fiction, Brothers and sisters
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
Night of the Ninjas
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
Shares: Tree houses, Time Travel, Magic, History
Pastwatch
From back cover Tor paperback February 1997:
In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.
Shares: Time travel in fiction, Time Travel
The Enchantment Emporium
The bestselling author of the Blood Books delivers a masterful new urban fantasy.Alysha Gale is a member of a family capable of changing the world with the charms they cast. Then she receives word that she’s inherited her grandmother’s junk shop in Calgary, only to discover upon arriving that she’ll be serving the fey community. And when Alysha learns just how much trouble is brewing in Calgary,…
Shares: Magic in fiction, Magic, Fantasy