18 books like Summerland

What to read after Summerland — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Haunting at Home Plate David Patneaude · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After they hear stories about their baseball field being haunted by the ghost of a boy who died there many years ago, twelve-year-old Nelson and his teammates start finding mysterious messages written in the dirt. Shares: Baseball stories, Baseball, Children's fiction

Shoeless Joe & Me Dan Gutman · 2002 · ★ 4.1 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate When Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and the gambling scandal that destroyed the star player's career -- he knows what he has to do. If he travels back in time with a 1919 baseball card in his hand, he just might be able to prevent the infamous Black Sox Scandal from ever taking place. And if he could do that, Shoeless Joe Jackson would finally take his rightful place in the… Shares: Baseball stories, Baseball, Children's fiction

Sky Island L. Frank Baum · 1912 · ★ 4.0 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Button-Bright's adventures begin when he finds a magic umbrella that will carry him anywhere in the world. Shares: Fairies, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Adventure

Skinnybones Barbara Park · 1982 · ★ 4.0 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world. Shares: Baseball stories, Baseball, Children's fiction

Abner & me Dan Gutman · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Cannons are blasting!Bullets are flying!Wounded soldiers are everywhere!Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most dangerous trip yet, Stosh has decided to answer the question for all time: did Abner Doubleday, a Civil War general, really invent the game of baseball?It's all here: big laughs, dramatic action, fast… Shares: Baseball stories, Baseball, Children's fiction

Jim & me Dan Gutman · 2008 · ★ 4.1 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate He was the world's greatest athlete, and a hero — until his medals were taken away.Stosh is shocked when his enemy, Bobby Fuller, begs him for a favor. He wants Stosh to take him back in time to meet Native American Jim Thorpe — an Olympic champion who lost his medals in a scandal. Thorpe went on to play professional baseball and football, but he could never again achieve such fame. His name was… Shares: Baseball stories, Baseball, Children's fiction

Mickey & Me Dan Gutman · 2003 · ★ 4.5 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate When Joe Stoshack's dad ends up in the hospital after a car accident, he has two words to say to his son: Mickey Mantle. For Stosh has a special power -- with a baseball card in hand, he can travel back in time. And his dad has a rare card -- Mantle's valuable 1951 rookie card. "I've been thinking about it for a long time. Go back to 1951. You're the only one who can do it," Dad whispers.That… Shares: Baseball stories, Baseball, Children's fiction

The Story of the Amulet Edith Nesbit · 1905 · ★ 4.0 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by the English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels and is preceded byFive Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). Shares: Child and youth fiction, Fairies, Fantasy fiction, Adventure

The Royal Book of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson · 1921 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Shares: Fantasy fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Children's fiction

Truckers Terry Pratchett · 1989 · ★ 4.1 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is commonly known among these nomes that Arnold Bros. created the Store for them to live in, and he declared: "Everything Under One Roof." Therefore there can be no such thing as Outside. It just makes sense. That is, until the day a group of nomes arrives on a truck, claiming to be from Outside,… Shares: Fairies, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

Honus & Me Dan Gutman · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Joe Stoshack lives for baseball. He knows everything there is to know about the game -- except how to play well. His specialty is striking out. Stosh feels like a real loser, and when he takes a low-paying job cleaning a bunch of junk out of his neighbor's attic, he feels even worse -- until he comes across a little piece of cardboard that takes his breath away. His heart is racing. His brain is… Shares: Baseball stories, Baseball, Children's fiction

The Edge of the Knife H. Beam Piper · 2006 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Ed Chalmers, history professor, had a real problem in his classes: he kept blurting out events that hadn't happened yet. Of course that made him the butt of jokes and ridicule, and the Dean wanted him out despite his tenure. But Ed had other ideas ... especially when his predictions started coming true! Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Adventure, Children's fiction

Queen Zixi of Ix; or, Story of the Magic Cloak, The L. Frank Baum · 1905 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The fairies assembled one moonlit night in a pretty clearing of the ancient forest of Burzee. The clearing was in the form of a circle, and all around stood giant oak and fir trees, while in the center the grass grew green and soft as velvet. If any mortal had ever penetrated so far into the great forest and could have looked upon the fairy circle by daylight, he might perhaps have seen a tiny… Shares: Fairies, Magic, Fantasy, 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: Fairies, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

Last Dragonslayer (Last Dragonslayer, #1) Jasper Fforde · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--Provided by publisher. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians, but it is hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. Then… Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

The Enchanted Island of Yew L. Frank Baum · 1903 · ★ 3.9 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A beautiful fairy is transformed into a human prince for one year. He and his friends have many adventures. Shares: Fantasy fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Children's fiction

Spindle's End Robin McKinley · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 395p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a… Shares: Fairies, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

The magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton · 1943 · ★ 4.1 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Wonderful tale for kids about a magical tree and the people who live in it. Shares: Fairies, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Adventure

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