Dave McKean
1) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in a another house just like her own. Only it's different...At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind up angels that flutter about the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of her house, although others in her family disagree, and when the wolves come out, the adventure begins. There are sneaking, creeping, crumpling noises coming from inside the walls. Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house -- and, as everybody says, if the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Her family doesn't believe her. Then one day, the wolves come out. But it's...
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"I'll swap you my dad," I said.
"Oh-oh," said my little sister.
What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father?
What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done?
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish is a hilarious adventure and was the first book for younger readers from the acclaimed author and illustrator of the New York Times best-sellers
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Series
Dark Tower volume 4
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A 700-page fantasy featuring Roland-the-Gunslinger, an adventurer who is seeking the source of life. Fourth in the Dark Tower series, the novel flashes back to the heroic deeds of his youth and his romance with Susan, his great love.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
New special edition with bonus material by Dave McKean! Best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, McKean defied expectations with his stunning debut as writer and artist in Cages, winner of multiple awards for Best Graphic Album. Dark Horse proudly presents a new original graphic novel by the legendary artist based on the life of Paul Nash, a surrealist painter during World War 1. The Dreams of Paul Nash deals with real soldier's memoirs,...
6) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Coraline has just moved into an old mansion shrouded in fog. While her parents work, the girl is entertained by exploring the place. In the living room, discover with suspicion a door that first leads to a brick wall and then to a fantastic world and attractive, curiously similar to his.
8) Crazy hair
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bonnie encounters all sorts of exotic animals and marvelous things inside a man's crazy hair.
10) Mirrormask
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
After blaming herself for her mother's illness, Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, dreams that she is in a strange world with bizarre creatures and masked inhabitants.
11) MirrorMask
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
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Description
In graphic novel format relates the story of Helena and her family of circus performers and their amazing journey.
12) Black orchid
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Series
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A plant/human hybrid superhero called Black Orchid goes on a spiritual journey in the wake of her death, during which she reviews her life, investigates her origins, and is given the opportunity to avenge herself.
13) Slog's dad
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
15) The savage
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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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
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Joe Quinn tells everyone about the poltergeist in his house, but no one believes him. No one, that is, except Davie. Davie's felt an inexplicable presence and seen random objects fly through the air. And there's something else—a memory of his beloved sister and a feeling deep down that it might just be possible for ghosts to exist.
19) The homecoming
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Pub. Date
2006.
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Description
An illustrated edition of Bradbury's classic short story tells the tale of an ordinary boy in an enormous family of ghouls attending a special reunion on All Hallows' Eve