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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGreat Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows & Amazons
Arthur Ransome · 352 pages
The Someday Birds
Sally J. Pla · 339 pages
Charlie s perfectly ordinary life has been unraveling ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan. When his father heads from California to Virginia for medical treatment, Charlie reluctantly travels cross-country with his boy-crazy sister, unruly brothers, and a mysterious new family friend. He decides that if he can spot all the birds that he and his father were hoping to see
Frightful's Mountain
Jean Craighead George · 258 pages
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
Pinky Pye
Eleanor Estes · 258 pages
While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.
Storm Boy
Colin Thiele · 61 pages
When Storm Boy goes walking along the beach or over the sandhills, or in the sanctuary the birds are not afraid. They know he is a friend. He lives with his father, Hideway Tom in a humpy made of brush and wood. One day a group of young pelicans decide to come to visit Storm Boy and Hideaway. With their friend Fingerbone they name them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival. When two of them leave, M
Hoot
Carl Hiaasen · 304 pages
Everything changes when sees a strange boy wearing no shoes run passed his bus. Come with Roy, Beatrice, and the strange boy to save the owls from the evil Paula's Pancakes.
Stormy Petrel
Mary Stewart · 232 pages
Rose Fenemore is taking a break from her Cambridge teaching post to meet her brother Crispin on the island of Moila off the west coast of Scotland. She looks forward to a quiet holiday in a natural paradise of seabirds and wild flowers. But things do not turn out so idyllically. Her brother's arrival is delayed, and the island's peace is shattered by the appearance one night of two men seeking she
The Double Jinx Mystery
Carolyn Keene · 166 pages
When their peregrine falcon brings down a homing pigeon carrying rubies, the Hardy brothers find themselves involved with kidnappers.
Thea Stilton and the Secret of the Old Castle
Thea Stilton · 176 pages
When Violet's friend, Bridget, goes missing on a mysterious and unknown mission in Scotland, the Thea Sisters race to Scotland to find out what happened to her. Along with Ewan, Bridget's close friend, and Ben, a lighthouse resident, they may just find Bridget and uncover her relatives' sly scheme!
The Wheel on the School
Meindert DeJong · 298 pages
Six students in a tiny Dutch sea town engage practically the whole population in an effort to attract storks to nest on the town's roofs again.
Journey's End
Rachel Hawkins · 286 pages
Faced with a mysterious, deadly fog bank in a seaside Scottish village, new friends Nolie and Bel look for ways to stop it--coming across an ancient spell that requires magic, a quest, and a sacrifice.
A Kind of Spark
Elle McNicoll · 192 pages
Perfect for readers of Song for a Whale and Counting by 7s, a neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different."A must-read for students and adults alike." -School Library Journal, Starred Review Ever since Ms. Murphy told us about the witch trials that happened centuries ago right here in Juniper, I c
We Never Asked for Wings
Vanessa Diffenbaugh · 400 pages
For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children -- Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six -- in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is cha
The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
Luis Sepulveda · 127 pages
A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teach the chick to fly.
The Tea-Olive Bird-Watching Society
Augusta Trobaugh · 317 pages
Beach House for Rent
Mary Alice Monroe · 408 pages
"Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer series, returns to her beloved Beach House series with the highly anticipated follow-up to Beach House Memories and The Beach House!"--
The Haunting of Hiram
Eva Ibbotson · 163 pages
"I will buy your castle," declared Hiram H. Hopgood. "But only if there are no ghosts!" What is young Alex MacBuff to do? He can't afford to keep his beloved Castle Carra - and an American millionaire has made him an offer he can't refuse. But the castle is full of ghosts! There's Krok the hairy Viking warrior, mad Miss Spinks, a hell-hound called Cyril, and a vampire with no teeth. How c
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
Janet Fox · 388 pages
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat · 103 pages
Describes the many adventures of a family that adopts two owls.
Hollow Earth
Carole E. Barrowman, John Barrowman · 326 pages
Possessing extraordinary powers, including the ability to bring artwork to life, twelve-year-old twins Matt and Emily are sought by villains trying to access the terrors of Hollow Earth, a place where demons and mythological beasts lie trapped for eternity.