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1) Stalky & Co
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This 1899 semi-autobiographical collection of stories about boys at a British boarding school in North Devon focuses on three chums-the eponymous Stalky, McTurk, and Beetle-who were stand-ins for Kipling himself and his boyhood friends. Rowdy and amusing, the stories are among Kipling's freshest.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[An] almost unbearably suspenseful story of adventure and survival....as the story advances, a powerfully pervasive sense of melancholy takes hold of the reader, much as the tiger did young Jaffy, and one wonders if it will ever let go. Though Mr. Jamrach is based on a real historical figure, and Jaffy's voyage on that of the ill-fated whaler Essex, the story is entirely Birch's, and her principal characters are her own wonderful invention. She is,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in North America by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s England, a beleaguered mother frets over her twelve-year-old's "skirmishes with the grown-up world and his schoolmasters . . . amusingly told" (Kirkus Reviews).
Laura Morland loves her son, Tony, unconditionally . . . even when he's talking everyone's ear off, accidentally breaking a window, shelling peas in the bathtub, or desperately trying to convince her to buy him a bicycle-the thought of which terrifies her. And of course Laura cherishes...
6) Blacklands
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
221 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murdered - after all, serial killer Arnold Avery later admitted killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounds their small English village. Only Billy's mother is convinced he is alive. She still stands lonely guard at the front window of her home, waiting for her son to return, while her remaining family fragments around her. ...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
117 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
10) Anarchy: a novel
Author
Series
Advent trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an accused murderer disappears from a locked cell on her watch, Corporal "Goose" Maculloch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracks the vanished girl through the wilderness of Vancouver Island.
11) Advent: a novel
Author
Series
Advent trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
451 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five centuries after a magician flees with a small ring that contains all of the world's magic, fifteen-year-old Gavin is dispatched to the home of his aunt because of his ability to see things that others do not believe exist, a power he must use to stop evil from escaping into the world.
12) Scorpia rising
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
13) Oliver Twist
Author
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London. After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search...
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