Neil Gaiman
1) Stardust
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved.
2) 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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed-- within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women on a farm at the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odins son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki-son of a giant-blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassed manipulator. Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
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A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined.
7) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.
9) Anansi Boys
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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"When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed - before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life." "Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew....
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This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013 -- as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White's (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty's (almost) stories. The book is a beautiful work of art.
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Series
Chu books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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On the first day of school, a young panda learns about the special things his animal classmates can do.
14) Interworld
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
15) Pirate stew
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Pirate stew for me and you! Pirate stew! Pirate stew! Eat it and you won't be blue. You can be a pirate too!
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Series
Chu books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Chu and his family are going to the beach! Chu will get to wade in the water and play in the sand. But what happens if Chu sneezes? And what will happen if he doesn't?
19) Cinnamon
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The parents of pearl-eyed princess Cinnamon offer a reward to anyone who can help their daughter speak, a plea answered by an exotic tiger who arrives at the palace, armed with knowledge of the world.
20) M is for magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Eleven stories that involve strange and fantastical events.