18 books like The Little White Horse

What to read after The Little White Horse — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Zombies vs. Unicorns Holly Black · 2010 · ★ 3.7 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies.… Shares: Unicorns, Children's fiction

Starlight surprise Linda Chapman · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Lauren does not believe in ghosts, but there is definitely something spooky going on down by the creek and one night, as Lauren and Twilight, her magical unicorn, fly over the woods near the scary tree house, they make a surprising discovery. Shares: Unicorns, Magic, Children's fiction

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911 · ★ 4.2 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Shares: Child and youth fiction, Orphans, England, Children's fiction

Charlie Bone and the Red Knight Jenny Nimmo · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Charlie and the Children of the Red King must call upon all of their strength to defeat the darkness and finally learn the fate of Charlie's family, the evil intentions of the Bloors, what has become of Septimus Bloor's will, and the destiny of the Red King's heirs. ---------- German-language description: Der finstere Schattenlord will Charlie Bones Stadt in seine Gewalt bringen und er hat… Shares: Fate and Fatalism, England, Magic, Fantasy

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1905 · ★ 4.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main characters perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.Merriam-Webster (1995). "Black Beauty". Merriam Websters Encyclopedia of Literature. The novel became an immediate best-seller,… Shares: Child and youth fiction, England, Children's fiction

Rose Holly Webb · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Mr Fountain's grand residence is a world away from the dark orphanage Rose has left behind. For the house is overflowing with sparkling magic - she can feel it. And soon rose realises that she might be just a little bit magical, too ... But when orphans begin mysteriously disappearing, Rose's magic is put to the test. Can she find the missing children before it's too late? Shares: Child and youth fiction, Orphans, Magic, Children's fiction

Deep Blue Jennifer Donnelly · 1782 · ★ 3.8 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Demanding Serafina, daughter of Isabella, Queen of Miromara, has been raised with the expectation - and burden - that she will someday become ruler of the oldest civilization of the merfolk. On the eve of the Dokimí ceremony, which will determine if she is worthy of the crown, Sera is haunted by a strange dream that foretells the return of an ancient evil. But her nightmare is forgotten the next day as she… Shares: Child and youth fiction, Magic, Children's fiction

The Adventures Of Odysseus Neil Phillip · 1996 · ★ 4.7 · 72p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Retells the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War. Shares: Genealogy, Children's fiction

Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1912 · ★ 3.9 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Twelve stories of adventure and love set in the home town of Anne of Green Gables. Shares: Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction

Summerland Michael Chabon · 2002 · ★ 3.8 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy. Shares: Child and youth fiction, Magic, Fantasy, Children's fiction

David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Demanding It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody… Shares: Orphans, England, Historical Fiction, Children's fiction

The Night is for Hunting John Marsden · 1999 · ★ 4.1 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Hell’s a big place, but it gets crowded when Ellie and her friends take an uncooperative crew of orphans under their wing and into their hidden refuge. It’s not easy to keep four young children busy and happy in the bush, and things only get worse when Ellie and Homer find evidence that mysterious visitors have discovered their sanctuary. Could it be a patrol of enemy soldiers sent on a search… Shares: Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction

Burning for Revenge John Marsden · 2000 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From Hell to Stratton isn’t an easy trip, especially when the enemy’s headquarters lies somewhere in between. And that’s exactly where Ellie and her friends unwillingly find themselves—smack in the middle of the Wirrawee airfield. With only five of them against hundreds of armed soldiers, escape seems like a suicide mission. The odds aren’t good, and Kevin’s nervous breakdown isn’t helping… Shares: Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction

Sons of Destiny (Cirque Du Freak The Saga of Darren Shan #12) Darren Shan · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world. Shares: Fate and Fatalism, Children's fiction

A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3) Madeleine L'Engle · 1978 · ★ 4.1 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog… Shares: Unicorns, Children's fiction

Steelheart Brandon Sanderson · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate There are no heroes, only villains. My father believed that a hero was going to step in, and he died for that belief. Steelheart killed him for seeing that he had a weakness, and no one knows I saw. Now I've spent years getting their weaknesses, and plotting my revenge. Shares: Vendetta, Fantasy, Children's fiction

A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905 · ★ 4.2 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a… Shares: Orphans, England, Historical Fiction, Children's fiction

Charlie Bone and the time twister Jenny Nimmo · 2002 · ★ 4.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Another year at Bloor's Academy and Charlie Bone runs into another adventure! Literally! What will Charlie do now that he is face to face with a mysterious boy displaced out of time and a mysterious glowing marble? What are the Yewbeam sisters up to? And Charlie's Father...? Shares: Child and youth fiction, England, Magic, Children's fiction

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