7 Top fantasy books like The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley

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The Outlaws of Sherwood

By: Robin McKinley

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Robin McKinley's vivid retelling of the classic story of Robin Ho…

"Tales are as much the necessary fabric of our lives as our bodies are."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

"Tales are as much the necessary fabric of our lives as our bodies are."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

"I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

"I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

1. Penny from Heaven

By: Jennifer L. Holm

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Penny from Heaven book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the be…"

-Jennifer L. Holm, Penny from Heaven

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2. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

By: Roger Lancelyn Green , Arthur Hall

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw… read more

Similar categories in Roger Lancelyn Green's The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?"

-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

"Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again."

-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

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3. Half a Chance

By: Cynthia Lord

3.99

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A moving new middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of Rules. When Lucy's family moves… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Lord's Half a Chance book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1) by Jennifer L. Holm

4. Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1)

By: Jennifer L. Holm

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when y… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1) book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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5. A Parcel of Patterns

By: Jill Paton Walsh

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

"A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a … read more

Similar categories in Jill Paton Walsh's A Parcel of Patterns book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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6. Belle Prater's Boy

By: Ruth White

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodro… read more

Similar categories in Ruth White's Belle Prater's Boy book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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7. Alphabet of Thorn

By: Patricia A. McKillip

4.50

Format: 122 pages,

Deep inside a palace on the edge of the world, the orphan Nepenthe pores over books in the royal li… read more

Similar categories in Patricia A. McKillip's Alphabet of Thorn book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • romance
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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8. The Sherwood Ring

By: Elizabeth Marie Pope

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral e… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Sherwood Ring book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1) by Polly Horvath

9. Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

By: Polly Horvath

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the small Canadian town of Coal Harbour, in a quaint restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing… read more

Similar categories in Polly Horvath's Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1) book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • fiction
  • young adult
"At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists."

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

"There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay."

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

"I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all."

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

"You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, …"

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

Cover of Searching for Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #2) by Patricia C. Wrede, Peter de Sève

10. Searching for Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #2)

By: Patricia C. Wrede , Peter de Sève

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Kidnap a dragon? How daring! How stupid Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper, is back--b… read more

Similar categories in Patricia C. Wrede's Searching for Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #2) book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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11. The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

By: Edward Dolnick

3.94

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but p… read more

Similar categories in Edward Dolnick's The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • historical
"...religion focused far more on damnation than on consolation."

-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

"The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come."

-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

"They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws."

-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

"The usual consolations of life, friendship and sex included, appealed to Newton hardly at all. Art, literature, and music had scarcely more allure. He dismissed the classical sculptures in the Earl o…"

-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

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12. The Story of Science: Newton at the Center: Newton at the Center

By: Joy Hakim

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In volume two, students will watch as Copernicus's systematic observations place the sun at the cen… read more

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13. Ever

By: Gail Carson Levine

2.50

Format: 52 pages,

Falling in love is never easy, but falling in love with an immortal god while your days on earth ar… read more

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Cover of The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley

14. The Outlaws of Sherwood

By: Robin McKinley

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Robin McKinley's vivid retelling of the classic story of Robin Ho… read more

Similar categories in Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • adventure
  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Tales are as much the necessary fabric of our lives as our bodies are."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

"I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

"Her words flew like butterflies through the vibrant air of the hall; and the company was quiet, as if watching them."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

"The king will catch us if the sheriff should fail to and then the Saxon race can be symbolically and romantically hung by the neck till dead."

-Robin McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

15. The Ramsay Scallop

By: Frances Temple

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The year is 1299. Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctantly awaits the return of her betrothed -- a man … read more

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16. The Gammage Cup (The Minnipins, #1)

By: Carol Kendall , Erik Blegvad

3.60

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Minnipins have lost their past. Long ago, the hero Gammage led them in war against the horrible… read more

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17. Pontius Pilate

By: Paul L. Maier

2.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The true story of how and why the crucifixion took place, from the perspective of the Roman politic… read more

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18. The Changeling Sea

By: Patricia A. McKillip

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Since the day her father's fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourned his … read more

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19. The Shining Company

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

read more

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Cover of The Dark Lord's Daughter by Patricia C. Wrede

20. The Dark Lord's Daughter

By: Patricia C. Wrede

3.98

Format: 368 pages, None

Kayla is just an ordinary girl . . . or so she thinks. When a day at the state fair is interrupted … read more

Similar categories in Patricia C. Wrede's The Dark Lord's Daughter book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
Cover of Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1) by Sylvia Engdahl

21. Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1)

By: Sylvia Engdahl

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Elana, though still a first-year student at the academy of the interstellar Anthopological Service,… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Engdahl's Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1) book and Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood

  • romance
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"The outcome of belief in magic can certainly surpass all hope..."

-Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1)

"It's a lot more comfortable to live in a world where the rules still apply."

-Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1)

"Why, if nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be!"

-Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1)

"Awed, I asked, 'How could you possibly have known enough about Jarel to trust him?' 'I didn't. I trusted you."

-Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1)

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