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1) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
"Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It's a wow. It would make one hell of a movie....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a Doctor Who story written for the series' fiftieth anniversary (Nothing o'clock). There is also "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of his novel American Gods. The collection explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Horror and ghosts stories,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
181 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
7) Pirate Stew
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Meet LONG JOHN McRON, SHIP'S COOK . . . and the most unusual babysitter you've ever seen. Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, and—for one boy and his sister—he's about to transform a perfectly ordinary evening into a riotous adventure beneath a pirate moon. It's time to make some PIRATE STEW.
8) Neverwhere
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"-and including his special Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back" Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U.S. and the U.K. Now Gaiman's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An absolute delight of a madcap story for the young (and young-at-heart) by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with equal parts pirates and piranhas, adventure and aliens, oddity and love.
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."
"Hullo," I said
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow?s best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling...
12) Chu's day
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chu is a little panda with a big sneeze. When Chu sneezes, bad things happen. Will Chu sneeze today?"--Dust jacket.
14) Stardust
Author
Publisher
Spike
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
235p. 24cm.
Language
English
16) American gods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On the first day of school, a young panda learns about the special things his animal classmates can do.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chu and his family are going to the beach! Chu will get to wade in the water and play in the sand. But what happens if Chu sneezes? And what will happen if he doesn't?
19) Anansi boys
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
His past marked by his father's embarrassing taunts and untimely death, Fat Charlie meets the brother he never knew and is introduced to new and exciting ways to spend his time.