Neil Gaiman
1) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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Shadow is a man with a past and wants nothing more now than to live a quiet life with his wife. When his wife is killed in a terrible accident, Shadow flies home for the funeral. As a raging storm rocks the plane, the strange man in the seat next to Shadow introduces himself as Mr. Wednesday. He knows more about Shadow than is possible--and he warns Shadow an even bigger storm is coming.
Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday,...
3) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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...
5) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria--even bring her the star they watch as it falls from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient barrier that borders their tiny village. And beyond the safety of the Wall, strange things can happen to a determined young lad chasing his heart's desire into a magical world of wonders and perils--where anything that...
6) Anansi Boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Charlie Nancy was leading a comfortable life until his father died and discovered that dear old dad was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he had a brother, Spider, who inherited some of his father's godlike abilities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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The world is preparing to come to an end according to the Divine Plan recorded in the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded 1655). Meanwhile, a fussy angel and a fast-living demon have grown fond of living among the earth's mortals for many millennia and are not looking forward to the apocalypse. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they must find and kill the Antichrist.
10) Norse mythology
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Having already appropriated Odin and Loki for his novel American Gods, Gaiman turns his restless imagination to a retelling of Norse folklore (a youthful interest of his). He begins by introducing us to the three main mythological figures: Odin, the highest and oldest of the gods; his son, Thor, who makes up in brawn what he lacks in brains; and Loki, offspring of giants and a wily trickster. In a series of stories, we learn how Thor acquired his...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"A prodigiously imaginative collection."
—New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
"Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic."
—Washington Post Book World
Fragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard
...12) Good omens
Author
Series
Publisher
SFBC
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing. Atlantis is rising. Frogs are falling. Tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living...
13) M is for magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of eleven short science fiction and fantasy stories by American author Neil Gaiman.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"The View from the Cheap Seats brings together... more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has...
16) The Sandman
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Series
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, one of the Endless gave up his duties and left his realm, never to be seen again. Now on a mission to find their missing sibling, Delirium and Dream encounter immortal humans and various deities as they try to locate the prodigal Destruction. But as their adventure draws Dream into a final, tragic confrontation with his son Orpheus, the eternal being learns the true meaning of fate and consequences. Neil Gaiman's epic continues in The...
17) Pirate stew
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, and--for one boy and his sister--he's about to transform a perfectly ordinary evening into a riotous adventure beneath a pirate moon"--Publisher.
Author
Series
Chu books volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Chu the panda goes to the beach!"--
Author
Series
Chu books volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the first day of school, a young panda learns about the special things his animal classmates can do.