Marcus Sedgwick
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
WHEN TOMAS AND HIS SON, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.But Tomas is a man with a past: a past that is tracking him with deadly intent, and when the dead of Chust begin to rise from...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After being injured fighting fires caused by German bombing in 1944 London, Harry learns that his soldier brother has been killed and he descends beneath the city on an otherworldly journey inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
5) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sig is stranded at a remote cabin in the Arctic wilderness with his father, who died just hours earlier after falling through the ice, when a terrifying man arrives, claiming Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold and that he will kill Sig if he does not get his money.