18 books like The Puppet Master
Pinocchio
In a little town somewhere in Italy lived a friendly old carpenter called Geppetto. And this is the story of that good man and his son - Pinocchio. Now in the town all the girls and boys knew that old Geppetto had a way with toys. With his clever hands he made wonderful things like dolls and trains and birds with wings, for the people who know how to make the best toys are the ones who really…
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Adventures of Pinocchio
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless
adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey,…
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The Daredevil Desperados of Destiny
"In this journal you'll find out...What to do if chased by a two-headed vulture...Who is the most wanted outlaw in the wild and wicked West...Why it's best not to lasso a cougar by the tail..."--p.[4] of cover.
Shares: Outlaws, Diaries, Westerns, Adventure
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
Shares: Spanish language, Children's fiction
Redskin and cowboy
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
Novels:
A Search for a Secret
All But Lost
Out on the Pampas
The Young Franc-Tireurs
The Young Buglers
The Cornet of Horse
In Times of Peril
Facing Death, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit
Winning His Spurs
Friends Though Divided
Jack Archer
Under Drake's Flag
By Sheer Pluck
With…
Shares: Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Westerns, Adventure, Children's fiction
Odysseus in the Serpent Maze
Thirteen-year-old Odysseus, who longs to be a hero, has many opportunities to prove himself during an adventure which involves pirates and satyrs, a trip to Crete's Labyrinth, and the two young girls, Penelope and Helen, who play a major role in his future life.
Shares: Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Adventure, Children's fiction
The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society #1)
"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"
Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children--two boys and two girls--succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish…
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Night of the Living Dummy III
Trina's dad used to be a ventriloquist; his dummies are in the attic. Trina and her brother Dan hear voices in the attic; are the dummies alive?
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In the Heart of the Rockies
An adventure filled with ingenuity and perserverance begins when 16-year-old Tom Wade leaves England, orphaned and facing a questionable future, in search of his Uncle Harry in America. The story follows Tom as he travels West to find his uncle with a band of comrades in Colorado's Rocky Mountain wilderness questing a gold mine. They are all pursued across the Bad Lands by Indians, overcome by a…
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Ark Angel
The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive...just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire…
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The Midnight Horse
Touch enlists the help of The Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his great-uncle's plans to put Touch into the orphan house and swindle The Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally.
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Cam Jansen and the ghostly mystery
Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost.
Shares: Outlaws, Children's fiction
Thornhill
"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
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The black arrow
Richard Shelton is a young knight during the Wars of the Roses. We see him ascend and rescue his lady love. He then seeks revenge against his father's murderer, but when the evidence points towards his guardian he is forced to go into hiding. He joins the band of outlaws known as the Black Arrow.
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Night of the Werewolf
The treasure that captured a nation's imagination Everyone's favorite farmgirl, Dorothy from Kansas, finds herself on a strange odyssey with three new friends. Readers young and old alike will enjoy this trip down Memory Lane, via the Yellow Brick Road.
Shares: Spanish language, Children's fiction
Tutta colpa di un caffè con panna
I, Geronimo Stilton, was in love! I was in the coffee shop one morning when I spotted the most beautiful rodent in the world. Unfortunately, I immediately tripped and ended up with my tail in a toaster. I was one mortified mouse! But i was determined to prove my love. So I joined my family on a journey to the Eighth Wonder of the World! There I made an amazing discovery.
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Lorna Doone
This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.
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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.
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