David Almond
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"Joe is starstruck, determined to find his way up, up, up to the magical lights in the night sky. "In your dreams!" his pals say. But when Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together, there's no stopping them. Together they climb ladders, construct towers, and launch rockets in a tireless quest to reach the unreachable. Airy and playful, Gill Smith's dynamic illustrations perfectly complement David Almond's ebullient tale of sky-high courage--and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In a rainy town in the north of England, there are strange goings-on. Dad is building a pair of wings, eating flies, and feathering his nest. Lizzie is missing her Mom and looking after Dad by letting him follow his newfound whimsy. What's behind it all? It's the great human bird competition.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the boundless imagination of David Almond comes a thought-provoking question, packaged in a lively illustrated chapter book: what if a robot went to school? When a new boy joins their class, everyone thinks he's . . . odd. George doesn't behave like other kids. He doesn't think like other kids. But he's great at football and snacking, and that's what matters to Dan and Maxie and friends, who resolve to make George feel welcome. Over time, they...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Nanty Solo is new in town and claims she can turn children into birds. Terrified parents forbid the idea, but the children want to fly-- they want it very much-- and they do. One by one, they approach Nanty Solo. One by one, they are transformed until the sky over town teems with rooks and goldfinches, parakeets and sparrows. The adults take one look and cry, 'Get out of that sky this very minute!' But the sight of their offspring-- set free to soar,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Potts's uncle Ernie has developed an over-the-top fascination with canning fish in the house, and life at 69 Fish Quay Lane has turned balmy. But there's darkness in the madness, and when Uncle Ernie's obsession takes an unexpectedly cruel turn, Stan has no choice but to leave. As he journeys away from the life he's always known, he mingles with a carnival full of eccentric characters and meets the legendary Pancho Pirelli, the man who swims...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition in this format.
Language
English
Description
The Junior Great North Run is coming soon to Newcastle Upon Tyne and Liam needs to train. But his elderly neighbor, Harry, needs a hand moving and Liam is asked to help. Little does he know that Harry ran in the Great Run as a young lad and has a very interesting story to tell!
10) War is over
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
John, an English boy whose father is a World War I soldier while his mother works in a munitions factory, and who has been taught that he, too, is at war with the Germans, has a strange encounter with a German boy called Jan who is just like him.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Feeling comfortable but somewhat alone in her home by the sea, an artist's daughter is encouraged to attribute difficult health challenges to stories that inspire creativity, while a visiting stranger helps her recognize how special she is.
14) Heaven Eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Helped by a very long ladder, some unusual acquaintances, two rather worried parents, and a great deal of community spirit, a young English boy makes an astonishing discovery when he embarks on a mission to prove that the moon is nothing but a big hole in the sky.
17) The dam
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
''This is a true story. It was told to me by Mike and Kathryn Tickell. Kielder Water is the largest artificial lake in the UK. It is in North Northumberland, a wild an beautiful place, rich in folk music, story and legend. It was created in the late 70s and early 80s. A great dam was constructed across the Kielder Valley, a place of farms, a school, several homesteads and a stretch of the Border Counties Railway. The valley took two years to fill...
18) Secret heart
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus.
19) Counting stars
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
In a series of interconnected stories, a boy describes his life growing up in the English urban district of Felling.
20) The fire-eaters
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.
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