Chris Riddell
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
220 pages : 28 cm
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
Publisher
Macmillan Children's
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Preparations for the Ghastly-Gorm Garden Party and bake-off are under way. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the hall for the big event and, true to form, Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper, is acting suspiciously. Elsewhere at Ghastly-Gorm Ada's wardrobe-dwelling lady's maid Marylebone the bear has received a marriage proposal. Ada vows to aid the course of true love and find out what Maltravers is up to, but amidst all this activity, everyone, including...
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
5) Platypus
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st U. S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Platypus thinks he has found the perfect curly shell for his collection, but it keeps disappearing.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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 s ghostly mouse named Ishmael. Together they set out to solve the mystery of the strange happenings at Ghastly-Gorm Hall. And get alot more than they bargained for.
Author
Series
Ottoline volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
171 p.: ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Ottoline Brown, with the help of her hairy best friend, Mr. Munroe the cat, eagerly takes on her latest case, to catch the jewel thief and dog-napping bandit who has been terrorizing the high-society residents of Big City.
8) Pirate stew
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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. Marvelously silly and gloriously entertaining, this tale of pirates, flying ships, doughnut feasts and some rather magical stew is perfect for all pirates, both young and old"--
Author
Series
The Edge chronicles volume 3
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
361 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
10) Fergus Crane
Author
Series
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
214 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.
11) The immortals
Author
Series
The Edge chronicles volume 10
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Physical Desc
668 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nate Quarter, a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, must flee for his life when the mine sargeant wants him killed, while elsewhere, a storm unlike any ever seen is building.
12) Corby Flood
Author
Series
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
232 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats and called the Brotherhood of the Clowns, as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.
13) Hugo Pepper
Author
Series
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
250 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy, orphaned and raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, boards his birth parents' sled and sets its special compass to "Home," where he uncovers a plot that threatens his mermaid godmothers and other friends of his family.
14) Freeglader
Author
Series
The edge chronicles volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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.
Author
Series
The Edge chronicles volume 4
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
370 p : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, 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
The edge chronicles volume 1
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
18) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 2
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Twig joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a mission to collect stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
19) Vox
Author
Series
The Edge chronicles volume 6
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
384 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rock Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
20) The nameless one
Author
Series
Edge chronicles.Cade saga volume 1
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Corgi edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cade has never met his uncle, the infamous 'descender' Nate Quarter, who years ago committed heresy by lowering himself over the cliff-face of the Edge. But Nate has returned, and the Academy of Flight are looking for revenge against all of his supporters - including Cade. So now he has to run. With no money and nowhere else to go, Cade's only option is to stow away aboard the Xanth Filatine - a mighty sky-ship bound for the city of Hive. But getting...