Marcus Sedgwick
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Transferred to a famous asylum after being arrested for his wife's murder in fin-de-siècle Paris, a man with an eidetic memory is investigated by a doctor and a police officer who discover links between the bizarre crime and the highest and lowest establishments in France.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man in a dark tunnel, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing, telling himself afterward that worse tragedies happen during war. Seven years later he returns to the city--and sees the same man dining in the company of a fascinating, beautiful young woman. When they leave the restaurant, Charles decides to follow. A Love...
7) Revolver
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a...
9) White crow
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history.
10) Floodland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten-year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents.
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.
12) Snowflake, AZ
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Snowflake, Arizona, six thousand feet up in the wide red desert. Ash is looking for her brother, Bly. She finds Mona; her goat, Socrates; her dog, Cooper; and finds Bly, too. They live in ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil. Mona and her neighbors are all sick. They've been poisoned by modern life. When Ash falls ill, the doctor says "It's all in your mind." Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake cycle through illness, recovery and...
13) Saint death
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border." --
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on the life of children's book author Arthur Ransome, who left his home, his wife, and daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman and was suspected, by both sides, of being a spy"--
1917. In a world engulfed by war, Arthur Ransome left his home, his wife, and daughter to travel to Russia. He fell in love with the country, and with Evgenia, a Russian woman. He is suspected by both sides of being a spy, and they seek to...
15) A Christmas wish
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
At a warm Christmas time, a young boy wishes that it would snow the way it does in his snow globe.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A London teenager who is blind and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.
Laureth Peak's father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers, a skill at which she's remarkably talented. Her secret: she is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her younger brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that takes them to New York City. Surviving will take...
18) Midwinter blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On the remote Scandinavian island of Blessed, a curiously powerful plant that resembles a dragon grows. What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this idyllic countryside? And what might be powerful enough to break the cycle of midwinterblood? We travel from 2073 to the age of the Vikings and back to Time Unknown, as we meet an archaeologist, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and are carried on a current of cursed love and reincarnation.
19) The Dark Horse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having risen to power as chief of his people, the Storn, sixteen-year-old Sigurd leads them as they try to resist the bloodthirsty invaders known as the Dark Horse and makes a shocking discovery about his foster sister Mouse.