18 books like Monkey wars

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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, Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Shattered Jennifer L. Armstrong · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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

A history of glitter and blood Hannah Moskowitz · 2015 · ★ 3.2 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Midnight over Sanctaphrax Paul Stewart · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Twig has the caterbird tethered to his ship, the edgedancer, and is being led into a storm never seen before, on his way to find his father. Twig soon learns that this storm is the mother storm, and that the mythical place, called riverisse is real. And is torn between a simple yet complicated choice. Cut the anchor chain of sanctaphrax, and all of the edges knowledge, to save riverisse, or have… Shares: Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Bang, bang, you're dead Louise Fitzhugh · 1969 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate 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 Helen Dunmore · 2000 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Moderate 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

Catalyst S. J. Kincaid · 2014 · ★ 4.4 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"-- Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test. Shares: War stories, War, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Gregor and the Marks of Secret Suzanne Collins · 2006 · ★ 4.4 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Lexa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane. Shares: War stories, War, Young Adult, Fantasy fiction

Oakleaf Bearers John Flanagan · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Known as The Battle for Skandia in the U.S.. For Will and Evanlyn, freedom has never felt so fleeing. Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, the Ranger's apprentice and the princess's plan to return to Araluen is spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed's toxic effects, Will employs his… Shares: War stories, War, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

The Lost Stories John Flanagan · 2011 · ★ 4.4 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors - tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil -- have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers. Two names pass the lips of every storyteller: Halt, and his apprentice, Will. They and their comrades in arms are said to have traveled throughout the… Shares: War stories, War, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

The Battle for WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi · 2014 · ★ 4.4 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate When all hope for a peaceful coexistence between humankind and aliens seems lost, Eva Nine, with help from an unlikely ally, tries to thwart the evil Loroc's ultimate plan for life on Orbona. Shares: War stories, War, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Hawksong: The Kiesha'ra Amelia Atwater-Rhodes · 2003 · ★ 4.8 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk's form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began. As heir to the avian throne, she'll do anything in her power to stop this war--even… Shares: War stories, War, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Dogfight Craig Simpson · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Join Finn Gunnersen in his first Special Operation . . . The first in a new WWII action-adventure series from the author of Resistance ('a genuine page-turner' ETC).Eighty miles per hour . . . 'Now, Loki!' I said, seizing the other column in front of me. We both pulled back. The plane bumped and lurched like a runaway train about to derail. Then, suddenly, the pounding ceased and everything… Shares: War, Young Adult, Children's fiction

Tiger's Apprentice Laurence Yep · 2003 · ★ 3.5 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world. Shares: Monkeys, Children's fiction

The lighthouse war Adrian McKinty · 2007 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 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, Children's fiction

Eona Alison Goodman · 2011 · ★ 4.4 · 655p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the… Shares: War stories, War, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

The forty-third war Louise Moeri · 1989 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Set in an imaginary Central American country, this is the harrowing story of the effects of revolution on a 12-year-old boy. Twelve-year-old Uno is conscripted into the army of a revolutionary force in a Central American country that is fighting for its freedom. Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction

The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants Priscilla Turner · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate The vowels and the consonants fight each other until they realize that if they work together they can create marvelous poems, plays, and memoirs. Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction

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