Marcus Sedgwick

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.

Retelling of Andersen's tale The emperor's new clothes.

When a stranger arrives on the island known only as Blessed, where people are rumored to never age and no children are born, he sets off a chain of events that involves the stories of various individuals on the island.

Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil.

"This is the story of odd and strange things that happen when Cudweed builds a spaceship. Cudweed is off on a fearless adventure in outer space with his pet monkey, Fellah, but when their spaceship is hit by a missile, things don't look good."--Back cover. Suggested level: junior, primary.

In 1917 the Bolsheviks hold power, and caught in the midst, an Englishman Arthur Ransome, a journalist and writer, left his home, his wife and daughter, and fell in love with Russia and Russian woman, Evgenia.

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.

"Saving the world isn't going very well for Elf Girl and Raven Boy. They've left Fright Forest and crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains, where they find a sign telling them to Turn Back. They really shouldn't have ignored it! It's not the strange wailing noises they hear in the dark, or the gigantic yeti who wants to eat them for breakfast that they find alarming, so much as the crazy wizard, Jeremy, who seems intent on adding Elf Girl and Raven Boy, not to mention Rat, to his collection of all too life-like stone statues"--Back cover. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

1963. Foxgrove School near Stockbridge, Massachusetts. One of the oldest and finest academies in the country - but what really goes on behind closed doors? Nathaniel Drake, the new young English teacher, Isobel Milewski, the quiet girl who loved to draw spirals, her fingers stained with green ink, Jack Lewis, who lent Isobel books - just words, just ink on paper, Margot Leya, the girl with those eyes - who are they, what part have they played in killing the dead?

Discusses the characteristics, benefits, and disadvantages of snow.

Finding herself at odds with her parent's old nemesis Count Stankovic, Scarlett Hart sets out to disocver why more monsters are manifesting than ever before.

For Olivia Harding, the offer of employment at an exclusive private girl's school had come as something of a godsend. With little experience, she hadn't expected to find a job so easily, let alone one that still bought her into contact with her former boss, the eminent Dutch surgeon, Haso van der Eisler. Of course, his frequent visits to the school had more to do with his goddaughter, Nel, than her own limited attractions. Nel was a lonely fatherless girl and that Haso should marry her glamorous mother seemed obvious to all but Olivia's stubborn heart.