David Almond
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
2) Heaven Eyes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past.
3) Raven summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A warm and witty tale from the author of }Skellig{, with illustrations by Alex T. Smith. Bert and Betty Brown find a little angel in Bert's top pocket when he was driving his bus. But not everyone thinks he's lovely... Ages: 8+
Bert finds an angel in his shirt pocket, and everyone likes him except the teacher and some others at school.
5) Slog's dad
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
When Slog's father died he promised to return for one last visit in the spring, but when Slog spots a scruffy man on a bench outside the butcher shop and identifies him as his father, his best friend Davie is skeptical.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Junior Great North Run is coming soon to Newcastle Upon Tyne and Liam needs to train. But his elderly neighbor, Harry, needs a hand moving and Liam is asked to help. Little does he know that Harry ran in the Great Run as a young lad and has a very interesting story to tell!
7) The dam
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
''This is a true story. It was told to me by Mike and Kathryn Tickell. Kielder Water is the largest artificial lake in the UK. It is in North Northumberland, a wild an beautiful place, rich in folk music, story and legend. It was created in the late 70s and early 80s. A great dam was constructed across the Kielder Valley, a place of farms, a school, several homesteads and a stretch of the Border Counties Railway. The valley took two years to fill...
8) War is over
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in France, while his mother works in a menacing munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a dreamlike meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When Stan journey's away from home, he meets the legendary Pancho Pirelli, the man who swims in a tank full of perilous piranhas. Will Stan be bold enough to dive in the churning waters himself and choose his own destiny?
10) The savage
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In a rainy town in the north of England, there are strange goings-on. Dad is building a pair of wings, eating flies, and feathering his nest. Lizzie is missing her Mom and looking after Dad by letting him follow his newfound whimsy. What's behind it all? It's the great human bird competition.
12) Clay
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Claire witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if Ella Grey has been captured and taken from her, but the loss of her best friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world in this modern take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Northern England.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Trapped in his bedroom by a father who fills his mind with mysterious tales and warnings, Billy Dean goes outside for the first time when his father disappears, and he discovers his abilities to heal the living and contact the dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Annie Lumsden has hair that drifts like seaweed, eyes that shine like rock pools, and thoughts that dart and dance like minnows. She lives with her artist mother by the sea, where she feels utterly at home, and has long felt apart from the other girls at school. Words and numbers on the page don't make sense to her, and strange maladies have been springing up that the doctors can't explain. Annie's mother says that all things can be turned into tales,...
17) Secret heart
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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.
19) Brand new boy
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From the boundless imagination of David Almond comes a thought-provoking question, packaged in a lively illustrated chapter book: what if a robot went to school? When a new boy joins their class, everyone thinks he's . . . odd. George doesn't behave like other kids. He doesn't think like other kids. But he's great at football and snacking, and that's what matters to Dan and Maxie and friends, who resolve to make George feel welcome. Over time, they...
20) The fire-eaters
Author
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.