18 books like Vol de nuit
We Rule the Night
Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight—for their country and for themselves—in this riveting debut that's part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity.Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal magic, she fears being branded a traitor and imprisoned. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Linné defied her…
Shares: Aeronautics, Children's fiction
Skyward
SPENSA'S WORLD HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR DECADES.
Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's--a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa the daughter…
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The Princess and Curdie
With the help of a mysterious fairy queen who provides monstrous but gentle creatures to aid him, a miner's son takes on the dangerous task of helping the king and princess confound their enemies and save the kingdom.
Shares: Fiction - General, Children's fiction
Hunchback of Notre-Dame
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society…
Shares: Continental european fiction, Children's fiction
Le roman du masque de fer
You are about to hear," said Aramis, "an account which few could now give; for it refers to a secret which they buried with their dead...." So begins the magnificent concluding story of the swashbuckling Musketeers--Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan. Aramis--plotting against the King of France--bribes his way into the jail cells of the Bastille where a certain prisoner has been entombed for…
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."
Shares: Continental european fiction, Children's fiction
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In this novel, Tom turns detective, trying to solve a murder. Twain plays with and celebrates the detective novel, wildly popular at the time. This novel, like the others, is told through the first-person narrative of Huck Finn.
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
From the book:Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path…
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The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Poems
The Gold Bug
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Purloined Letter
The Oblong Box
"thou Art the Man"
Pit and the Pendulum
Assignation
Masque of the Red Death
King Pest
Cask of Amontillado
Black Cat
Tell-tale Heart
Imp of the Perverse
William Wilson
Mystification
The Man of the Crowd
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The…
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
Bambi
Describes the life of a deer in the forest as he grows into a beautiful stag.
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
At the Back of the North Wind
The adventures of a little boy, Diamond, named for his father's favorite horse, as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
The Cruise of the Dazzler
The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boys adventure novel.
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
Gentle Annie
A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac.
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
Anne of Green Gables
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
After the war was over
Memoirs of Foreman as a boy during the rebuilding of Britain after World War II. Foreman recalls victory bonfires, the ongoing rationing, prefab houses, baths in tin tubs, beaches first cleared of barbed wire and mines, and describes his development as an artist. Includes watercolor illustrations and period documents and photographs.
Shares: Biography & Memoir, Children's fiction
The Princess and the Goblin
There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. His palace was built upon one of the mountains, and was very grand and beautiful. The princess, whose name was Irene, was born there, but she was sent soon after her birth, because her mother was not very strong, to be brought up by country people in a large house, half castle, half…
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Prince Cinders
A fairy grants a small, skinny prince a change in appearance and the chance to go to the Palace Disco.
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Something About the Author
Something About the Author is a long series of biographical dictionaries of authors and illustrators of children's books. The reference volumes are routinely found in libraries and most articles are very good with photos of the subjects and their works, lists of titles, other sources, and more detailed information than many similar resources.
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