Dave McKean
Author
Pub. Date
2022
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
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
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
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Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Formats
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.
5) 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
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Formats
Description
In graphic novel format relates the story of Helena and her family of circus performers and their amazing journey.
11) Slog's dad
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
13) The savage
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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.
16) Black Orchid
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
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.
17) Black orchid
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012].
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...
19) 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.
20) Death
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The first story introduces the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life and (of course) death. In the second story, a rising star of the...