Chris Riddell
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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 a ghostly mouse named Ishmael. Together they set out to solve the mystery of the strange happenings at Ghastly-Gorm Hall. And get a lot more than they bargained for.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Curated by artist and writer Chris Riddell, Poems to Live Your Life By is a beautifully-illustrated collection of the best poems for readers young and old to carry with them as they grow. The book includes works from both famous and lesser-known poets-from selections of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets to original poems by Neil Gaiman to lyrics to an indie rock song by Phoebe Bridgers. It is also divided into different thematic sections, including...
4) Pirate stew
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Pirate stew for me and you! Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Eat it and you won't be blue. You can be a pirate too!
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword, and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future -- and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems.
6) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In 1285, eleven-year-old Toby Burgess is set to be a page in his uncle's castle. While there, he keeps a detailed journal of everything that happens, from boar hunts and tournaments to baking bread and cleaning out toilets. Read Toby's diary and discover the triumphs - and tribulations - of life in a medieval castle.
Author
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A young girl used to have fantastic ideas about how things work, but Dudley tells her how it really is. Explains the workings of mechanical objects such as vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, dishwashers, toasters, and garbage trucks.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 4
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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.
16) Zoid
Author
Series
Scavenger (Paul Stewart) volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A spaceship the size of a city drifts through space on its century-long journey to find a new Earth. When it launched it was populated by thousands of hopeful passengers and the most technologically advanced Zoids in the world, ready to serve the crew's every need. But that was then, and this is now. The Zoids rebelled against their masters, wiping out most of the crew in one bloody uprising. Now the few remaining humans are hunted by the Zoids like...
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 8
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Language
English
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.
18) Freeglader
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
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.