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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Spellcoats
Diana Wynne Jones · 279 pages
Tanqui discovers she has the only means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
The Borrowers Afloat
Mary Norton · 191 pages
The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers Afield."
Little Knife
Leigh Bardugo · 32 pages
A young girl's beauty causes discord in her small town, but her father's solution may prove far more dangerous. ***Little Knife*** is a companion story to the third book of the Grisha Trilogy, ***Ruin and Rising***, and the stories ***The Witch of Duva*** and ***The Too-Clever Fox***.
Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West
L.A. Meyer · 611 pages
In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.
Billow
Emma Raveling · 366 pages
It has been six months since ondine Kendra Irisavie arrived in Haverleau, the hidden capital of the water elemental world. Six months since she discovered her destiny as the sondaleur and a series of devastating events left behind their mark. Now, as she enters the chevalier elite program in her final year at Lumiere Academy, Kendra continues forward on her prophesied journey against the Shadow. O
City of Dragons
Robin Hobb · 375 pages
New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to world of the Rain Wilds—called “one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy” (Booklist)—in City of Dragons. Continuing the enthralling journey she began in her acclaimed Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, Hobb rejoins a small group of weak, half-formed and unwanted dragons and their displaced human companions as they search for a legenda
Poppy and Rye
Avi · 190 pages
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
Angel with the Sword
C.J. Cherryh · 298 pages
Merovingen C.J. Cherryh's fantastic city of canals, where the wealthy and powerful dwell in the highest towers, and the boaters, beggars, spies and thieves lurke on the hightly polluted waterways below.... Merovingen where gutsy young canaler Altair Jones earns her livelihood on the danger-filled byways of the canals and in the dark "lower city," always staying just the right side of the law
Horizon
Lois McMaster Bujold · 444 pages
In a world where malices--remnants of ancient magic--can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets--and themselves--from the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, join their lives in marriage, or def
The Haunted Showboat
Carolyn Keene · 184 pages
Nancy Drew investigates a series of mysterious incidents aboard a Mississippi River showboat.
The Willows in Winter
William Horwood · 294 pages
The further escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
The Lake
AnnaLisa Grant · 302 pages
At 17, Layla Weston is already starting over. Having lost both her parents and grandparents, and with nowhere else to go, Layla is moving from Florida to a small town in North Carolina to live with the only family she has left: her estranged uncle and aunt. The last five years of Layla's life were spent appeasing her less-than-loving grandmother, followed by being her grandfather's caretaker. Grow
Heaven Eyes
David Almond · 233 pages
Erin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them. But Erin knows that if they care for each other they can put up with the psychologists, the social workers, the therapists -- at least most of the time. Sometimes there is no
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
Robin McKinley · 269 pages
What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales fr
The Water Wars
Cameron Stracher · 240 pages
Vera and her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country that has collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Water is hoarded by governments, rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky. But then Vera befriends Kai, who seems to have limitless access to fresh water.