Dave McKean
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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,...
2) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
White Wolf Publishing
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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
...6) Crazy hair
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bonnie encounters all sorts of exotic animals and marvelous things inside a man's crazy hair.
8) MirrorMask
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
In graphic novel format relates the story of Helena and her family of circus performers and their amazing journey.
9) Slog's dad
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
11) The savage
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using sticks, leaves, and clay, Little Ben makes a mouse, Sue, a bird, and Harry, a snake, but when they create a terrifying wolf that turns on them, Little Ben must summon the courage to save them.
14) Black Orchid
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Coraline
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
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.
16) Black orchid
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2012].
Language
English
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller! Before introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman wrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in the Vertigo mold. Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman's frequent collaborator, DaveMcKean, BLACK ORCHID. After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death. Now, as this demigoddessattempts...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.