18 books like Tom's Midnight Garden
Red Eyes at Night
"Millie's cousin Geraldine is a show-off and a pain. Anything Millie can do, Geraldine can do better. Only one thing will keep her quiet. And that's a ghost with bright red eyes. A ghost lurking in the garden shed. A ghost with a surprise in store for them all ..." -- Cover, page [4].
Shares: Night, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Witch Family
Two little girls who love to draw witches build an elaborate world around the imaginary Old Witch and her family.
Shares: Imagination, Children's fiction
Puck of Pook's Hill
The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, …
Shares: Space and time, Adventure, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Boggart and the monster
In this companion volume to The Boggart, the invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of its few remaining cousins.
Shares: Imagination, Adventure, Children's fiction
Tanglewreck (Blackbirds)
Something frightening is happening with time. One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver, her bony and bad-tempered aunt,…
Shares: Children's literature, Space and time, Adventure, Children's fiction
The ghost wore gray
Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her best buddy Chris Gurley are having a hard time. The play that led to them meeting a ghost and unraveling a mystery has ended. Now the rest of the summer looms ahead, looking dull after their great adventure.Luckily, Nine's dad gets a job designing the restoration of an old – and distressingly run down – hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Nine and Chris are more than…
Shares: Ghosts, Adventure, Children's fiction
The Secret Seven
It's their very first adventure, and the Secret Seven super-sleuths are already on the trail of some really weird clues. It's snowing and the Seven are dressed in disguise, following a lead to a spooky old house -- and a mystery.
Shares: Livres en gros caractères, Adventure, Children's fiction
A Walk in Wolf Wood
When a weeping man in a strange costume passes their picnic spot and disappears into the nearby woods, a brother and sister decide to follow him and soon find themselves involved in the rescue of a werewolf in the 14th century.
Shares: Space and time, Children's fiction
Doctor Dolittle's garden
Doctor Dolittle's garden is teeming with insects, including a giant moth from a world beyond earth.
Shares: Gardens, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Cave of Time
The reader enters a mysterious cave and by following the instructions on each page can have several different adventures backward and forward in time.
Shares: Space and time, Adventure, Children's fiction
Timeriders
Littérature jeunesse: roman de science-fiction
Liam O'Connor aurait dû mourir en mer en 1912. Maddy Carter aurait dû mourir en avion en 2010. Sal Vikram aurait dû mourir dans un incendie en 2026. Mais à la dernière seconde, sauvés par un homme mystérieux, ils ont échappé à leur destin. Désormais, les trois adolescents vivent en marge de l'Histoire, au service d'une agence dont nul ne connaît…
Shares: Space and time, Children's fiction
The selfish giant
This magnificent new edition of Oscar Wilde's beloved tale tells the story of the selfish giant who built a wall around his beautiful garden to keep children out. It was always winter in the garden, for no other season would venture there. Then one morning, a special child brought Spring back, and the giant's heart melted along with the snow.
Shares: Gardens, Children's fiction
The Secret Garden
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: Gardens, Children's fiction
Remember me 3
Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories.
Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. More than that, she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life. To write stories for young people to help them understand…
Shares: Ghosts, Adventure, Children's fiction
Warriors of Alavna
While walking through a yellow mist, two fifteen-year-old classmates are transported to a world that resembles Roman Britain during the first century A.D, where they witness real magic and join a tribe of Celtic warriors as they battle Roman invaders.
Shares: Space and time, 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, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Time Cat
Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history.
Shares: Space and time, Children's fiction
ArchEnemy
The Heart Crystal's power has been depleted, and Imagination along with it. The people of Wonderland have all lost their creative drive, and most alarmingly, even Queen Alyss is without her powers. There is some comfort in the fact that the vicious Redd Heart seems to be similarly disabled. Amazingly, she is attempting to team up with her enemy, Alyss, in order to reclaim Wonderland from King…
Shares: Imagination, Adventure, Fantasy, Children's fiction