Chris Riddell
Author
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.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 3
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.
4) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 5
Language
English
Formats
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
Edge chronicles volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father in his quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 4
Language
English
Formats
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 volume 10
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 8
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Muddle Earth
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Joe Jefferson is an ordinary schoolboy from ordinary Earth. At least, he was. But something strange happened when he was walking his dog, and now he's Joe the Barbarian, fearless warrior-hero, summoned by Muddle Earth's leading wizard to slay ogres, wrestle dragons, and bravely confront villains. Joe doesn't feel much like a warrior-hero. But evil is stirring in the heart of Elfwood, and the people of Muddle Earth need help (although most of them...
11) Vox
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 6
Publisher
D. Fickling
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.
13) Freeglader
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 7
Publisher
D. Fickling
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
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a mean and narcissistic king is both uproariously funny and distressingly on point, will be enjoyed by children and their parents.
"Rabbits don't exist."
So decrees the new king, the Wolf of all Wolves, after conquering the rabbits' homeland. He refuses to allow even one small, fluffy tail or long, soft ear into his kingdom. He orders the birds to broadcast this message far and wide. And he summons the old monkey to photograph...
"Rabbits don't exist."
So decrees the new king, the Wolf of all Wolves, after conquering the rabbits' homeland. He refuses to allow even one small, fluffy tail or long, soft ear into his kingdom. He orders the birds to broadcast this message far and wide. And he summons the old monkey to photograph...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
BARNABY GRIMES IS a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and “highstacking” around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog and soon finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors, poor and ill-advised patients, strange tonics, and very expensive furs. . . .
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him.
In this new adventure, Barnaby finds himself in the fiercely competitive world of early photography, where the rewards are immense but so are the risks. After an experiment goes disastrously wrong, Barnaby is on the trail of a mad...
In this new adventure, Barnaby finds himself in the fiercely competitive world of early photography, where the rewards are immense but so are the risks. After an experiment goes disastrously wrong, Barnaby is on the trail of a mad...