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Author
Series
Goth Girl (Chris Riddell) volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Meet Ada Goth. She lives in Ghastly-Gorm Hall with her father, Lord Goth, lots of servants and at least half a dozen ghosts, but she hasn't got any friends to explore her enormous, creepy house with. Then one night everything changes when Ada meets a ghostly mouse named Ishmael. Together they set out to solve the mystery of the strange happenings at Ghastly-Gorm Hall. And get a lot more than they bargained for.
Author
Series
Goth Girl (Chris Riddell) volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
People are flocking to Ghastly-Gorm Hall from far and wide to compete in Lord Goth's Literary Dog Show. The esteemed judges are in place and the contestants are all ready to win. Sir Walter Splott is preparing his Lanarkshire Lurcher, Plain Austen is preening her Hampshire Hound and Homily Dickinson and her Yankee Poodle are raring to go. But there's something strange going on at Ghastly-Gorm - mysterious footprints, howls in the night and some suspiciously...
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Meet Ottoline Brown and her best friend Mr. Munroe. No puzzle is too tricky for the two of them to solve. A string of daring burglaries has taken place in Big City, and precious lapdogs are disappearing. Who is behind this crime wave? Can Ottoline and Mr. Munroe come up with a clever plan?"--p. [4] of cover
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.
8) Neverwhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl--an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere--a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After two years travelling the United Kingdom - visiting schools, libraries, and festivals, and meeting thousands of children - this book provides a glimpse of the incredible journey Chris has been on during his time as Children's Laureate. Full of sketches, doodles, and pages from The Laureate Log - his daily record of his time as Laureate - this beautiful hardback has been lovingly curated by his daughter Katy, who is a talented illustrator in her...
10) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 2
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 3
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 4
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 5
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past
14) Vox
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 6
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
15) Freeglader
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 8
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars
Author
Language
English
Description
"You may think you know this story. There's a young queen, about to be married. There are some good, brave, hardy dwarves; a castle, shrouded in thorns; and a princess, cursed by a witch, so rumour has it, to sleep forever. But no one is waiting for a noble prince to appear on his trusty steed here. This fairy tale is spun with a thread of dark magic, which twists and truns and glints and shined. A queen might just prove herself a hero, if a princess...
18) Pirate stew
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Pirate stew for me and you! Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Eat it and you won't be blue. You can be a pirate too!