18 books like Murdo's War

What to read after Murdo's War — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

1915

1915 Roger McDonald · 2001 · 433p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares World War, War, Children's fiction with this book.

D-Day Kate Messner · 2018 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares World War, War, Adventure, Children's fiction with this book.

Pastoral Terry Gifford · 1999 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral, and traces the history of the genre from its classical origins in the poetic dialogues of supposed shepherds, to Elizabethan dramas such as The Winters Tale, through the pastoral poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and Clare, to the more recent rural novels and contemporary American nature writing. Beginning with constructions of Arcadia, the book… Shares Special Interest, Literary, Literary Criticism, Travel

The Bone Trail Paul Stewart · 2013 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Action & Adventure, General, Adventure, Children's fiction with this book.

The Machine Gunners Robert Westall · 1975 · ★ 3.5 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it. Shares World War, War, Children's fiction

My Brother's Keeper Tony Bradman · 2014 · ★ 3.2 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Light Shares World War, War, Children's fiction with this book.

The raiders, being some passages in the life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt Samuel Rutherford Crockett · 1893 · ★ 4.1 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Crockett’s ‘breakthrough’ and most famous novel, first published in 1894, this is part of a loose trilogy of smugglers and gypsies stories featuring the Herons, the Maxwells and the Faas. Stevensonesque in style, it is unique in its descriptions of Galloway’s coast and hills and still thrills a modern audience. *‘'The Raiders ' vibrates with sufficient dramatic action for a dozen ordinary… Shares Scotland, Adventure

Star wars Toshiki Kudo · 1999 · ★ 4.1 Shares War, Children's fiction with this book.

The Mystery of the Strange Messages Enid Blyton · 1969 · ★ 4.2 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve. Shares Adventure, Children's fiction

The Mad Wolf's daughter Diane Magras · 2018 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"-- Shares Scotland, War, Adventure, Children's fiction

Into the Killing Seas

Into the Killing Seas Michael P. Spradlin · 2015 Shares World War, War, Children's fiction with this book.

D-Day Bryan Perrett · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate It's 1944, and Andy Pope's platoon is crossing the English channel to reach the beaches of Normandy. This is D-Day - the biggest invasion in history. Ordered to cut off the Germans' line of retreat, Andy's company comes under sustained attach until, as the only officer left unwounded, he finds himself in command and fighting for survival. [kh]. Shares World War, War, Children's fiction

Wild Cheryl Strayed · 1767 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her… Shares Literary, Literary Criticism, Travel, General

The Battle of Hackham Heath John Flanagan · 2016 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate As Morgarath recruits an army of Wargals, Halt ventures into enemy territory to uncover the extent of Morgarath's plan of attack. Shares War, Adventure, Children's fiction

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares Adventure

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares Adventure

With Buller in Natal, or, a Born Leader

With Buller in Natal, or, a Born Leader G. A. Henty · 2011 Shares War, Adventure, Children's fiction with this book.

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