18 books like Looking at the stars

What to read after Looking at the stars — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs · 2011 · ★ 3.9 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he… Shares: Community pick

Star wars Toshiki Kudo · 1999 · ★ 4.2 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, Children's fiction

Petar's Song Pratima Mitchel · 2003 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Book Band: Dark Blue (Ideal for ages 9+) The story of a family of fishermen doing their best to make ends meet in a small Indian village Hari's family make their living from fishing, but with no fish left in the bay, times are really hard. To catch the fish further away they need a better boat, but to get a better boat they need to sell fish… Despite family feuds and village superstitions… Shares: Family, War, 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: Family, War, Children's fiction

Perfect Girl Mary Hogan · 2007 · ★ 3.4 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Out of the blue, Ruthie has fallen in love with the boy next door, Perry. He's suddenly grown up and made her heart go thwang, and Ruthie has no idea what to do about it.Then a new girl shows up at school, and Ruthie realizes she has to do something, and fast. Jenna is perfect, from her perfectly straight hair to her perfectly manicured toes. Perry's noticed her, too, and worse, Jenna has noticed… Shares: Sisters, Family, Children's fiction

A Million Miles Away Lara Avery · 2015 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Twin sisters Kelsey and Michelle Maxfield look identical -- but they couldn't be more different. Kelsey is the captain of the dance team and loves her cute college boyfriend, Davis. Michelle is a free-spirited artist and flits from one guy to the next, the latest a soldier recently deployed to Afghanistan. Despite their differences, Kelsey and Michelle can't live without each other--until, in an… Shares: Sisters, War, Children's fiction

Blue fire Janice Hardy · 2010 · ★ 4.0 While trying to lead the Takers out of Geveg, fifteen-year-old Nya is captured by bounty-hunters and taken to Baseer, where she escapes and soon finds herself helping the Baseeri. Shares: Sisters, War, Children's fiction

Dangerous Girls #2 - The Taste of Night Robert Lawrence Stine · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Destiny Weller and her twin sister, Livvy, were as close as two sisters could be–until Livvy chose to become a vampire, leaving Destiny behind. Now Destiny will do anything to bring Livvy back to the family. But in Livvy's world of endless darkness, she knows there is only one way she and Destiny can be reunited –– Destiny must become a vampire too.... Which sister will live to see the glow of… Shares: Sisters, Children's fiction

The Slopes of War Norah Perez · 1990 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In the summer of 1863, Bekah Summerhill watches as Confederate troops sweep through her sleepy Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, in a panoramic tale about the turning point of the Civil War. Shares: War, Children's fiction

The Book of the Banshee Anne Fine · 1991 · ★ 3.5 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Will Flowers doesn't understand what could have happened. His sister, Estelle, used to be really cool. She was quiet, responsible, and most times you'd never even know she was around(which was the cool part). But lately, Estelle has been acting totally weird - to everyone. All she does is get mad and yell. She yells at Mom. She yells at Dad. She even yells at little Muffy. But mostly she yells at… Shares: Family, War, Children's fiction

The Golly Sisters Go West Betsy Cromer Byars · 1985 · ★ 3.7 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly sisters, travel west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way. Shares: Sisters, Children's fiction

The Time of the Ghost Diana Wynne Jones · 1981 · ★ 3.8 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From Publishers Weekly Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues. At least twice in the course of the multi-layered narrative, the heroine has not the faintest idea who she is?a powerful metaphor for the novel's underlying theme of alienation… Shares: Sisters, Children's fiction

The Rider from Lost Creek William johnstone · 1976 · ★ 4.0 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn't about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there's more at stake than land or wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country--and an army of hired guns to back them up. Nita Riordan, the beautiful and fiery owner of the Apple Canyon Saloon,… Shares: War, Children's fiction

The Shapeshifters Amelia Atwater-Rhodes · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 972p · ≈ 32h · Moderate Five shapeshifter novels--one fascinating read!HawksongDanica Shardae, an avian shapeshifter, will do anything in her power to stop the war that has raged between her people and the serpiente--even pretend to be in love with Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind's greatest enemy, and accept him as her pair bond. But will Zane strike as swiftly and lethally as the cobra that is his… Shares: War, Children's fiction

My Enemy, My Brother James D. Forman · 1969 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Released from a concentration camp after World War II, a sixteen-year-old boy settles on an Israeli kibbutz but finds his new life threatened by the growing conflict between Arabs and Jews. Shares: War, Children's fiction

Greek Tales Terry Deary · 2017 From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps The great inventor Archimedes has just one problem. His clumsy servant, young Lydia, is the bane of his life. But when the Romans besiege Syracuse, and the Greeks turn to Archimedes for help, it is young Lydia who always seems to come up with the… Shares: War, Children's fiction

The Show-And-Tell War Janice Smith · 1990 · ★ 4.0 Five stories relate the adventures and misadventures of Adam Joshua as he contends with the first day of school, pretending to be sick, stealing a library book, making the scariest Halloween costume, and being upstaged at show-and-tell time. Shares: War, Children's fiction

While You Were Away, Daddy Alison Keller · 2005 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares: War, Children's fiction

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