18 books like The High Graders
The Magic City
An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
Shares: Cities and towns, Children's fiction
To Tame a Land
Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses. Then he meets Liza…
Shares: Western, Westerns, Children's fiction
Kiowa Trail
Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom Lundy broke the law and crossed the line. Later that night,…
Shares: Western, Westerns, Children's fiction
Ghosts beneath our feet
During a summer in an abandoned mining town, Katie's relationship with a rebellious stepbrother improves as they probe the past to find out why there seem to be ghosts, literally, beneath their feet.
Shares: Cities and towns, Children's fiction
The Rider from Lost Creek
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: Western, Children's fiction
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon’s Mines was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping into people’s excitement for the unknown: in this case, the unexplored regions of Africa.
Haggard wrote the novel in a very short period, between six and sixteen months, on a bet with his brother to try to match Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. In the process he created a new literary genre…
Shares: Mines and mineral resources, Adventure, Children's fiction
The Walking Drum
Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century.
Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian…
Shares: Western, Westerns, Children's fiction
The Clique
Enter the world of the clique - where the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.
Shares: Cities and towns, Children's fiction
The war in Georgia
Living in Georgia during World War II, thirteen-year-old Shanta sometimes feels that her family and neighborhood are more hopeless battlefields that those in foreign lands.
Shares: Cities and towns, Children's fiction
The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy
Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.
Shares: Western, Westerns, Children's fiction
Iris and Walter (Iris And Walter)
When Iris moves to the country, she misses the city where she formerly lived; but with the help of a new friend named Walter, she learns to adjust to her new home.
Shares: Cities and towns, Children's fiction
The Mystery of the Strange Messages
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
Call Me Frances Tucket
This is a first class [youth western fiction][1] with lots of adventure and great feats of survival. The book shows courage in the worst of times and teach valuable lessons that you can achieve anything you put your mind to! A fantastic book to read for boys and girls.
[1]: http://www.zachsbookclub.com/2013/07/call-me-francis-tucket/
Shares: Westerns, Adventure, Children's fiction
The Royal Book of Oz
Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island.
Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction
Humbug Mountain
A young boy and his wandering family foil villains and rout nasty varmints as they make a home for themselves in a beached boat on the banks of the Missouri.
Shares: Westerns, Adventure, Children's fiction
The Golly Sisters Go West
May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly sisters, travel west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way.
Shares: Westerns, Children's fiction
The Spiderwick Chronicles
German-language description
Jared und seine Geschwister Simon und Mallory haben in dem alten Haus, in dem sie seit kurzem wohnen, eine geheimnisvolle Entdeckung gemacht: Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch der magischen Geschöpfe! Plötzlich eröffnet sich den Kindern eine Welt voller Magie und Zauberwesen – doch nicht alle sind ihnen freundlich gesonnnen. Urplötzlich heiklen Situationen und ungeahnten…
Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction
The Hive Queen
Growing up in the hives, cricket has always had 1,000,000 questions. Wiretree soap forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? In the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is cricket immune to queen wasp"s powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the hype wing, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, cricket has to hide, terrified of…
Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction