FREE/BARGAIN - Children's, YA

[issybird]

Originally Posted by GlennD

A couple of books in the "Tales of Magic Series" by Edward Eager are on sale on Amazon for $1.99 each. I read Knight's Castle as a kid and shared it with my kids; they're still as great although the kids don't catch the Ivanhoe references. They work as standalones -
I didn't even realize there was a series until I was an adult.


Knight's Castle
Magic by the Lake

I couldn't recommend Eager's books more strongly.

[sufue]

Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy is $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I remember reading and really liking this book as a kid. Note this is the 50th Anniversary edition - there is another version not on sale. The blurb page also says it's the first of four in the series - I didn't know there WAS a series...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EX4E29Y
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/har...ersary-edition

Spoiler:

This special 50th Anniversary Edition of the classic and ground-breaking coming-of-age novel, Harriet the Spy, includes tributes by Judy Blume, Meg Cabot, Lois Lowry, Rebecca Stead, and many more, as well as a map of Harriet's New York City neighborhood and spy route and original author/editor correspondence.

Using her keen observation skills, 11-year-old Harriet M. Welsch writes down in her notebook what she considers the truth about everyone in and around her New York City neighborhood. When she loses track of her notebook, it ends up in the wrong hands, and before she can stop them, her friends read the sometimes awful things she's observed and written about each of them. How can Harriet find a way to keep her integrity and also put her life and her friendships back together?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by sufue

I didn't know there WAS a series...

The second book, The Long Secret, is worth reading. The latter two books are terrible and should be eschewed.

[sufue]

Thanks for the advice! I'll eReaderIQ the second one...

Originally Posted by issybird

The second book, The Long Secret, is worth reading. The latter two books are terrible and should be eschewed.

[sufue]

If you didn't pick these up earlier, when they were on sale/free individually, an omnibus of the first three titles in Chris Behrsin's Dragoncat series is available for $3.99/£3.49 at Kindle US/UK right now. The specific titles are in the original post below.

A Cat's Almanac of Magic and Dragons: Dragoncat Omnibus 1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RZ1NVD9
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RZ1NVD9

Also, a second omnibus of books 4 - 6 is coming in a few days. It's pre-sale priced at $3.99/£2.99 at Kindle US/UK. Titles include: A Cat's Guide to Questing for Treasure, A Cat's Guide to Travelling through Portals, and A Cat's Guide to Vanquishing Evil.

A Cat's Almanac of Demons and Dragons: Dragoncat Omnibus 2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQHJWZDG
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQHJWZDG

Originally Posted by sufue

Chris Behrsin's A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons was free a while back, and it looked kind of fun, and I'm not above reading a YA title now and then, and so I grabbed it and read it and enjoyed it. I then got distracted by some other books in my TBR pile, so I didn't read any more in the series, but I did put Behrsin in my eReaderIQ list, and now the first book is free again, and the next two books in the series are on sale for $0.99/£0.99 at Kindle US/UK. (They are also in KU, if you have that.) Cat's Guide reminded me a little bit of Helen Harper's Slouch Witch series, even though that's an unusual comparison for a YA title...

A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons, #1, free
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LP5GV32
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LP5GV32

A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M11GVDX
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08M11GVDX

A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M297PDL
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08M297PDL

[sufue]

The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine is on sale at Kindle US for $1.99. Levine won a Newbery medal in 1998 for another book, Ella Enchanted, so I'd expect this one to be pretty good too, and it gets 4.6 stars out of 5.0 at Kindle.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JYX7LUA

Spoiler:

A teenage girl must overcome deep-rooted prejudice—including her own—to save her people in the Newbery Honor author’s fantasy adventure.

As a member of the Lakti people, Peregrine was raised to strive for excellence—and to look down on the Bamarre, whom she knows to be weak and cowardly. Always seeking the affection of her stern and powerful parents, Perry runs the fastest, speaks her mind, and gives no thought to their castle’s Bamarre servants.

But just as she’s about to join her father on the front lines of battle, she is visited by the fairy Halina, who reveals that Perry isn’t Lakti-born. She is Bamarre. The fairy issues a daunting challenge: against the Lakti power, Perry must free her people from tyranny.

[sufue]

If you missed this last time, when the first book was free, and the next two were on sale, you have another chance - the first two are free right now, although the third is not on sale. But the whole series is KU if you have have that...

The links are still good!

Originally Posted by sufue

Chris Behrsin's A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons was free a while back, and it looked kind of fun, and I'm not above reading a YA title now and then, and so I grabbed it and read it and enjoyed it. I then got distracted by some other books in my TBR pile, so I didn't read any more in the series, but I did put Behrsin in my eReaderIQ list, and now the first book is free again, and the next two books in the series are on sale for $0.99/£0.99 at Kindle US/UK. (They are also in KU, if you have that.) Cat's Guide reminded me a little bit of Helen Harper's Slouch Witch series, even though that's an unusual comparison for a YA title...

A Cat's Guide to Bonding with Dragons, #1, free
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LP5GV32
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LP5GV32

A Cat's Guide to Meddling with Magic, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M11GVDX
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08M11GVDX

A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M297PDL
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08M297PDL

[Quoth]

All three are free today, as I write, on Amazon UK Marketplace.

I did get the Slouch Witch

Warning, the filename offered has the title : in it! Will save on Linux, but break backups.

[sufue]

I just noticed that too , and the omnibus of the first three is free again now too. An embarrassment of riches...

For the omnibus:
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RZ1NVD9
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RZ1NVD9

Originally Posted by Quoth

All three are free today, as I write, on Amazon UK Marketplace.

I did get the Slouch Witch

Warning, the filename offered has the title : in it! Will save on Linux, but break backups.

[bookmarked]

Built to Last by David MacAulay is on sale for $2.99.

It appears to combine his books Castle, Cathedral, and Mosque in one book.

A nomad fashion's a home that’s meant to be built and rebuilt. A family tears down an old house and erects a new one in its place. Even the Eiffel Tower wasn’t meant to be anything more than temporary. As humans, we don’t always build things to endure the test of time. Built to Last brings together the award-winning author and artist David Macaulay’s creative, exacting thinking about buildings and designs that were crafted with a strength of structure and purpose that defy the everyday: Castle, Cathedral, and Mosque. This gorgeous volume includes newly researched information about each building and how it was built. And, for the first time ever, the Caldecott Honor–winning Castle and Cathedral appear in full color—with stunning new drawings that enrich the reader’s understanding of these structures, and capture intriguing new perspectives and details. Just as the buildings themselves were created to last, our interest in the structures themselves, the people who created them, and the purposes for which they were made endures as well. This impeccably researched volume—a necessary addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in architecture—celebrates this spirit of endurance and serves as a reminder that building well and leaving something of consequence behind, whether a building, a design, or an idea, is still of the utmost importance.

[sufue]

Encyclopedia Brown was one of the first mystery series I remember reading, getting the books (if I remember correctly so many decades later) from Scholastic, ordered via the elementary school I went to. I guess it started something, because I'm clearly still a big mystery addict.

And right now, Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Donald J Sobol, which is the first in the series, is on sale in the US for $1.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UZQI60
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/enc...oy-detective-1

Spoiler:

A Civil War sword...

A watermelon stabbing...

Missing roller skates...

A trapeze artist's inheritance...

And an eyewitness who's legally blind!

Theses are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him--the answer to all the mysteries are found in the back!

[sufue]

More than a year later, The Door in the Wall is $1.99 again in the US. The links are still good....

Originally Posted by sufue

Newbery winner, The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite de Angeli is $1.99 in the US right now.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LALDN2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-door-in-the-wall-4