Geraldine McCaughrean
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.
Every time a lad went fowling on the stacs, he came home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at all, that is. Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely...
2) Wenceslas
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Retelling of the story of King Wenceslas and his page, who set out on a bitter winter's day to deliver the spirit of Christmas.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
One bright starlit night, Joy wakes to see a glittering path of moonlight stretching off into the distance. Curious, she slips out of bed and follows the path till she reaches Blue Moon Mountain. There she discovers a strange unearthly place inhabited by all the magical creatures of myth and legend: mermaids and fairies, Cyclops and goblins -- even Joy's beloved unicorns.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, all is not well. Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland. Fearing for Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys go back to Neverland -- with the help of the fairy Fireflyer -- only to discover their worst nightmares coming true! Peter Pan and his friends eventually restore Neverland to rights.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
10) The kite rider
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
307 pages : maps ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
American edition.
Lexile measure
AD 680L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The kingdoms of Arbor, with its lush forests, and Pomosa, rich with farmland, have no love between them, and the children have taken to sneaking across the borders at night to steal the precious resources of milk and wood that the adults won't share. So the Kings decide to fight, instead...with dragons. But do the dragons have another idea? This new parable shows that the way to peace and prosperity is not through fighting, but teamwork and generosity."...
12) Stop the train!
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Kite Rider comes another great historical novel-this time set in the American west, where the residents of a new settlement struggle against nature and the railroad to keep their town alive. Pulse-pounding adventure, moments of gut-bustin' humor, and a deeply moving sense of community
13) Cyrano
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
114 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Ashamed of her crown of antlers, the reindeer retreats to the lonely northern wastelands, but many years later her descendants find their antlers useful when they help Santa Claus one Christmas Eve.
16) Greek myths
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents retellings of sixteen Greek myths, including the stories of Pandora, Daedalus and Icarus, King Midas, Jason, and Odysseus.
17) Starry tales
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.
19) One bright Penny
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An old man bets each of his children that they can't fill the barn for a penny.