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Clay
Hardcover:
Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-385-73171-3 (0-385-73171-X)
| July 2006| $15.95
Hardcover
Library Binding:
Delacorte Books for Young Readers |
0-385-90929-2 | September 2005| $17.99
Trade Paperback: Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-440-42013-2 (0-440-42013-x) | March 2008 | $8.99 |
| Fourteen-year-old
Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their
local Catholic Church. They’re
full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes
to town. Father O’Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea
for Davie and Geordie to befriend him—maybe some of their
good nature will rub off on this unhappy soul. But it’s
Stephen who sees something special in Davie. Stephen’s a gifted sculptor. One day as Davie looks
on, Stephen brings a tiny figure to life. It’s a talent
he has, the gift of creation—and he knows that Davie
has this talent, too. Davie allows Stephen to convince him
to help bring a life-size figure to life—and Clay is
born. Clay is innocent, but Stephen has special plans for
him.
What has Davie helped to unleash on the world?
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Kate,
the Cat, and the Moon
Illustrated
by Steven Lambert
Hardcover:
Doubleday Books for Young Readers | 0-385-74691-1 | September
2005| $15.95
Hardcover
Library Binding: Doubleday Books for Young Readers | 0-385-90929-2
| September 2005| $17.99
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Kate
has just drifted off to sleep when a mysterious white cat
appears at her window and beckons
her out into the night. As Kate follows, she feels herself
changing–her ears growing and peaking, her teeth growing
tiny and sharp, her tongue roughening. For one glorious night,
Kate roams her familiar neighborhood as a cat, jumping and
prowling and climbing as she never could before. This dreamy
tale, illustrated by Stephen Lambert’s color-drenched
pastel drawings, is perfect for bedtime reading.
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The
Fire-Eaters
Hardcover:
Delacorte
Books for Young Readers | 0-385-73170-1 | May 2004 | $15.95
Hardcover
Library Binding: Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 0-385-90207-7
| May 2004 | $17.99
Paperback:
Yearling | 0-440-42012-1 | November 2005 | $5.99
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here to read an excerpt |
Bobby
Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely
Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars
reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured
fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness
seems to be approaching Bobby’s life from all sides.
Bobby’s new school is a cold, cruel place. His father
is suffering from a mysterious illness that threatens to tear
his family apart. And the USA and USSR are testing nuclear
missiles and creeping closer and closer to a world-engulfing
war.
Together
with his wonder-working friend, Ailsa Spink, and the fire-eating
illusionist McNulty, Bobby will learn to believe in miracles
that will save the people and place he loves.
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Secret
Heart
Hardcover
Library Binding: Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 0-385-90065-1
| October 2002 | $17.99
Readers
Circle paperback: Dell Laurel-Leaf | 0-440-41827-5 | May
2004 | $5.99
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here for the reader's guide |
| Joe
Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him
to be a man, and he can’t be that yet. His only friend,
Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and Joe can’t
learn that. Joe’s mind is always somewhere else: on the
weird creatures he sees in the distant sky, the songs he hears
in the air around him, the vibrations of life he feels everywhere.
Everybody laughs at Joe Maloney. And
then a tattered circus comes to town, and a tiger comes for
him. It leads him out into the night, and nothing in Joe Maloney’s
world is ever the same again.
The
transformative power of imagination and beauty flows through
this story of a boy who walks where others wouldn’t dare
to go, a boy with the heart of a tiger, an unlikely hero who
knows that sometimes the most important things are the most
mysterious.
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Counting
Stars
Hardcover
Library Binding: Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 0-385-90034-1
| April 2002 | $18.99
Paperback:
Dell Laurel-Leaf | 0-440-41826-7 | October 2003 | $5.99
Click
to hear David Almond read from Counting
Stars. (Requires RealPlayer) |
David
Almond’s extraordinary novels have established him as
an author of unique insight and skill. These stories encapsulate
his endless sense of mystery and wonderment, as they weave
a tangible tapestry of growing up in a large, loving family.
Here are the kernels of his novels—joy and fear, darkness
and light, the
healing power of love and imagination in overcoming the wounds
of ignorance and prejudice. These stories merge memory and
dream, the real and the imagined, in a collection of exquisite
tenderness.
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Heaven
Eyes
Hardcover:
Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 0-385-32770-6 | April
2001 | $15.95
Paperback:
Dell Laurel-Leaf | 0-440-22910-3 | October 2002 | $5.50
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here to read an excerpt.
Click
here for the reader's guide. |
| Erin
Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is
the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the
orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because
they have no parents to take care of them. But Erin knows
that if they care for each other they can put up with the
psychologists, the social workers, the therapists — at
least most of the time. Sometimes there is nothing left but
to run away, to run for freedom. And that is what Erin and
two friends do, run away one night downriver on a raft. What
they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine,
maybe, and you might not think it's true. But Erin will tell
you it is all true. And the proof is a girl named Heaven Eyes,
who sees through all the darkness in the world to the joy
that lies beneath.
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Kit's
Wilderness
Paperback
| Dell Laurel-Leaf | 0-440-41605-1 | September 2001 | $4.99
Hardcover:
Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 0-385-32665-3 | March
2000 | $15.95
Downloadable:
BDD | 0-553-75002-X | March 2000 | $16.95
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here for the reader's guide. |
| "It
was very deep, Kit. Very dark. And every one of us was scared
of it. As a lad I'd wake up trembling, knowing that as a Watson
born in Stoneygate I'd soon be following my ancestors into
the pit," so Kit's grandfather tells him.
The
Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town,
to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets
John Askew, another boy whose family had both worked and died
in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him to play a game
called Death. As Kit's grandfather provides stories of the
mine's past and the history of the Watson family, the boys
search the mines to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone
ancestors.
Written
in haunting prose and lyrical language, Kit's Wilderness
explores the bonds of family from one generation to the next,
and how from the depths of darkness, meaning and beauty can
be revealed.
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Skellig
Paperback
| Laurel Leaf| 0-440-22908-1 | September 2001 | $5.99
Trade Paperback: Yearling | 0-440-41602-7 | September
2000 | $4.99
Hardcover:
Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 0-385-32653-X | April
1999 | $15.95
Downloadable:
BDD | 0-553-75005-4 | April 1999 | $13.95
Click
here to read an excerpt.
Click
here for the reader's guide. |
| Ten-year-old
Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But
now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor
Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps
into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath
the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange
kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can
confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the
creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever.
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