Siobhan Dowd
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
3) Bog child
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.