Philip Pullman Books In Order

His Dark Materials Books In Publication Order

  1. Northern Lights / The Golden Compass (1995)
  2. The Subtle Knife (1997)
  3. The Amber Spyglass (2000)
  4. Lyra’s Oxford (2003)
  5. Once Upon a Time in the North (2008)
  6. Serpentine (2020)

His Dark Materials Graphic Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Golden Compass: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 (2014)
  2. The Golden Compass: The Graphic Novel, Volume 2 (2015)

Adventures Of John Blake Graphic Novels In Publication Order

  1. Mystery of the Ghost Ship (2017)

Book Of Dust Books In Publication Order

  1. La Belle Sauvage (2017)
  2. The Secret Commonwealth (2019)

Canongate Myths Books In Publication Order

  1. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2009)

New Cut Gang Books In Publication Order

  1. Thunderbolt’s Waxwork (1994)
  2. The Gas Fitters’ Ball (1995)
  3. The Adventures of the New Cut Gang (2011)
  4. Two Crafty Criminals! (2012)

Sally Lockhart Books In Publication Order

  1. The Ruby in the Smoke (1985)
  2. The Shadow in the North (1986)
  3. The Tiger in the Well (1990)
  4. The Tin Princess (1994)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Haunted Storm (1972)
  2. Galatea (1976)
  3. Count Karlstein (1982)
  4. How to Be Cool (1987)
  5. Spring-Heeled Jack (1989)
  6. The Broken Bridge (1990)
  7. The White Mercedes (1992)
  8. The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (1995)
  9. Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up (1996)
  10. The Butterfly Tattoo (1998)
  11. Mossycoat (1998)
  12. I Was a Rat! (1999)
  13. The Scarecrow and His Servant (2009)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (2012)
  2. The Golden Key: And Other Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (2012)

Plays In Publication Order

  1. Frankenstein (With: ) (1990)
  2. Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror (1992)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (1999)
  2. Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline (2000)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary (1978)
  2. Ancient civilizations (1979)
  3. Daemon Voices (2017)

Point Horror Books In Publication Order

  1. Avalanche (By:Arthur J. Roth) (1979)
  2. Blind Date (By:R.L. Stine) (1986)
  3. Twisted (By:R.L. Stine) (1987)
  4. Spaceballs (By:R.L. Stine) (1987)
  5. The Nightmare Man (By:Tessa Krailing) (1988)
  6. The Lifeguard (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (1988)
  7. Beach House (By:R.L. Stine) (1989)
  8. Party Line (By:A. Bates) (1989)
  9. Prom Dress (By:Lael Littke) (1989)
  10. The Baby-Sitter (By:R.L. Stine) (1989)
  11. Trick or Treat (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (1989)
  12. My Secret Admirer (By:Carol Ellis) (1989)
  13. Teacher’s Pet (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (1990)
  14. April Fools (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (1990)
  15. Final Exam (By:A. Bates) (1990)
  16. Funhouse (By:Diane Hoh) (1990)
  17. Beach Party (By:R.L. Stine) (1990)
  18. The Boyfriend (By:R.L. Stine) (1990)
  19. The Foggiest (By:David Belbin) (1990)
  20. The Baby-Sitter II (By:R.L. Stine) (1991)
  21. The Snowman (By:R.L. Stine) (1991)
  22. The Accident (By:Diane Hoh) (1991)
  23. Thirteen Tales of Horror (By:R.L. Stine,Judith Bauer Stamper,Lael Littke,Christopher Pike,Caroline B. Cooney,,Carol Ellis,Diane Hoh,A. Bates,D.E. Athkins,Sinclair Smith) (1991)
  24. Mother’s Helper (By:A. Bates) (1991)
  25. Sister Dearest (By:D.E. Athkins) (1991)
  26. The Girlfriend (By:R.L. Stine) (1991)
  27. Freeze Tag (By:Caroline B. Cooney) (1992)
  28. The Window (By:Carol Ellis) (1992)
  29. Fatal Secrets (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (1992)
  30. The Perfume (By:Caroline B. Cooney) (1992)
  31. The Invitation (By:Diane Hoh) (1992)
  32. Mirror, Mirror (By:D.E. Athkins) (1992)
  33. The Fever (By:Diane Hoh) (1992)
  34. Hit And Run (By:R.L. Stine) (1992)
  35. The Train (By:Diane Hoh) (1992)
  36. The Ripper (By:D.E. Athkins) (1992)
  37. The Mall (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (1992)
  38. The Waitress (By:Sinclair Smith) (1992)
  39. The Cheerleader (By:Caroline B. Cooney) (1992)
  40. Halloween Night (By:R.L. Stine) (1993)
  41. Dream Date (By:Sinclair Smith) (1993)
  42. The Dead Game (By:A. Bates) (1993)
  43. The Baby-Sitter 3 (By:R.L. Stine) (1993)
  44. The Dead Girlfriend (By:R.L. Stine) (1993)
  45. The Hitchhiker (By:R.L. Stine) (1993)
  46. The Phantom (By:Barbara Steiner) (1993)
  47. Help Wanted (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (1993)
  48. The Stranger (By:Caroline B. Cooney) (1993)
  49. The Yearbook (By:Peter Lerangis) (1994)
  50. Twins (By:Caroline B. Cooney) (1994)
  51. The Hunter (By:L.J. Smith) (1994)
  52. The Chase (By:L.J. Smith) (1994)
  53. Silent Witness (By:Carol Ellis) (1994)
  54. Call Waiting (By:R.L. Stine) (1994)
  55. The Watcher (By:Lael Littke) (1994)
  56. Thirteen More Tales of Horror (With: Graham Masterton,Colin Greenland,Stan Nicholls,David Belbin,,Diane Hoh) (1994)
  57. Halloween Night II (By:R.L. Stine) (1994)
  58. The Diary (By:Sinclair Smith) (1994)
  59. I Saw You That Night! (By:R.L. Stine) (1994)
  60. The Kill (By:L.J. Smith) (1994)
  61. The Witness (By:R.L. Stine) (1994)
  62. Driver’s Dead (By:Peter Lerangis) (1994)
  63. Camp Fear (By:Carol Ellis) (1994)
  64. Night School (By:Caroline B. Cooney) (1995)
  65. The Babysitter IV (By:R.L. Stine) (1995)
  66. The Boy Next Door (By:Sinclair Smith) (1995)
  67. The Body (By:Carol Ellis) (1995)
  68. The Mummy (By:Barbara Steiner) (1995)
  69. The Surfer (By:Linda Cargill) (1995)
  70. Thirteen Again (By:Lisa Tuttle,Graham Masterton,Colin Greenland,Stan Nicholls,Philip Gross,David Belbin,,Malcolm Rose) (1995)
  71. Hide and Seek (By:Jane McFann) (1995)
  72. Blood Curse (By:Janice Harrell) (1995)
  73. Blood Spell (By:Janice Harrell) (1995)
  74. The Claw (By:Carmen Adams) (1995)
  75. Amnesia (By:Sinclair Smith) (1995)
  76. Spring Break (By:Barbara Steiner) (1996)
  77. The Stalker (By:Carol Ellis) (1996)
  78. Prom Date (By:Diane Hoh) (1996)
  79. The Bride (By:D.E. Athkins) (1996)
  80. Krazy 4 U (By:A. Bates) (1996)
  81. Sweet Sixteen (By:Francesca Jeffries) (1996)
  82. Double Date (By:Sinclair Smith) (1996)
  83. Second Sight (By:Sinclair Smith) (1996)
  84. The Unseen: It Begins (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (2003)
  85. X-Isle (By:Peter Lerangis) (2003)
  86. Demon (By:R.L. Stine) (2003)
  87. The Dark 2 (By:Linda Cargill) (2004)
  88. Demon II (By:Samantha Lee) (2004)
  89. The Unseen Part 2: Rest In Peace (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (2004)
  90. Return to X-Isle (By:Peter Lerangis) (2004)
  91. Sin and Salvation (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (2005)
  92. The Unseen Part 3: Blood Brothers (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick) (2005)
  93. Demon III (By:R.L. Stine) (2012)
  94. Defriended (By:Ruth Baron) (2013)
  95. Identity Theft (By:Anna Davies) (2013)
  96. Followers (By:Anna Davies) (2014)
  97. Wickedpedia (By:Chris Van Etten) (2014)
  98. The Dark: v. 1 (By:Linda Cargill) (2020)

Red Hot Reads Books In Publication Order

  1. Ghost Stories (By:Robert Westall) (1988)
  2. Mystery (By:Helen Cresswell) (1996)
  3. Mystifying (By:Helen Cresswell) (1996)
  4. Mystery Stories (By:Helen Cresswell) (1996)
  5. Ballet Stories (By:Sally Holmes) (1997)
  6. Detective Stories (1998)
  7. Animal Stories (By:Michael Morpurgo) (1999)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Whodunit? (2007)
  2. Four Tales (2010)

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Philip Pullman Books Overview

Northern Lights / The Golden Compass

When Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon decide to spy on a presentation her uncle, the commanding Lord Asriel, is making to the elders of Jordan College they have no idea that they will become witnesses to an attempted murder and even less that they are taking the first steps in a journey that will lead them into danger and adventure unlike anything Lyra’s unfettered imagination has conjured up.

Though she has been reised at the college in an atmosphere of benign neglect that has allowed her to become a half wild child of the streets, Lyra soon finds herself apprenticed to the elegant Mrs. Coulter and in possession of a strange device called the alethiometer, a ‘golden compass’ that reads not true worth, but truth itself.

But truth is a precious commodity, and before long Lyra and Pan are running for their lives, the object of an obsessive hunt by mysterious forces who have been stealing children for dark purposes that no one understands. Lyra will need all her street learned wiles if she and Pan are to survive.

An international sensation from the moment it was published, The Golden Compass comes to spectacular new life in this unabridged recording, narrated by Philip Pullman himself, with the support of some of the finest actors of the London stage.

The Subtle Knife

THE STUNNING SEQUEL TO THE GOLDEN COMPASS

Having slipped through a newly formed astral portal, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in the beautiful, haunted world of Citt gazze a city where soul eating Specters stalk the streets and the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies. For young Will Parry, in search of his father, has also stumbled into this strange new realm via a magic gateway.

Together the enlightened pair forge ahead on a perilous journey between worlds teeming with witches, angels, and sorcery and uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. But with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat and the shattering truth of their own destiny…
/Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as ‘elegant,’ ‘awe inspiring,’ ‘grand,’ and ‘glittering,’ and used ‘magnificent’ with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter or, more likely, several from the opening tour de force to Lyra’s close call at Bolvangar to the great armored bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The d mons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his hero*ine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.

The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there’s a young hero from our world who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12 year old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother’s increasing instability and separate them.

As the novel opens, Will’s enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry’s disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family’s tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: ‘She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will.’ What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: ‘The cat stepped forward and vanished.’ Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape one in which children rule and adults and felines are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: ‘Her expression was a mixture of the very young when she first tasted the cola and a kind of deep, sad wariness.’ Soon Will and Lyra and, of course, her d mon, Pantalaimon uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.

As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare d mon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who ‘had trafficked with spirits, and it showed’; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra’s father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can’t quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff ghasts look like rank amateurs.

Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes small and large scale will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. ‘You think things have to be possible,’ Will demands. ‘Things have to be true!’ It is Philip Pullman’s gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful. Kerry Fried

The Amber Spyglass

His Dark Materials Book III

IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN, SO FIRMLY AND RELENTLESSLY DOES PULLMAN DRAW YOU INTO HIS TALE…
A gripping saga pitting the magnetic young Lyra Belacqua and her friend Will Parry against the forces of both Heaven and Hell.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette

BREATHTAKING ADVENTURE…
A TERRIFIC STORY, ELOQUENTLY TOLD.
The Boston Sunday Globe

HEARTSTOPPING PACE…
CRACKLING ACTION…
Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the 20th century.
Cincinnati Enquirer

TRIUMPHANT…
MASTERFUL…
A THOUGHTFUL, METICULOUSLY CRAFTED ADVENTURE.
San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
/Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we’ll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we’ve yet to discern whether this individual’s intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel’s mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the ‘tingle of the starlight’ on Serafina Pekkala’s skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel’s crusade:

A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king’s mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch’s insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.

Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest ‘preemptive absolution’ should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than ‘a sacred task.’

In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news not that The Amber Spyglass doesn’t contain standoffs and close calls galore. Who would have it otherwise? But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3 D, the author weaves in and out of his principals’ thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa again, we’ll reveal nothing more makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet or on other things entirely when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices or betrayals.

Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra’s mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: ‘The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief.’ Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. Kerry Fried

Lyra’s Oxford

This is a wonderful new episode from the world of Philip Pullman’s bestselling trilogy, His Dark Materials, to be published in November 2003. In Lyra’s Oxford the reader will share the huge excitement of discovering a small bundle of material that has somehow slipped between Lyra’s universe and our own. The book will include a wonderful new story by Philip Pullman, fully illustrated intricate maps and other ephemera from Lyra’s universe. The text will be illustrated throughout in beautiful black and white wood blocks by the highly acclaimed engraver, John Lawrence, together with specially printed three colour pull out maps of Lyra’s Oxford. This publication could have come from a parallel universe. This is a dramatised audio with production by Garrick Hagan and narrated by Philip Pullman with a full cast.

Once Upon a Time in the North

In this new prequel episode from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua is just 24 years old, and he’s recently won his hot air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving oil magnate Larsen Manganese, corrupt mayoral candidate Ivan Poliakov, and Lee’s longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country: Pierre McConville, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name. It’s only after Lee forms an alliance with one of the island’s reviled armored bears that he can fight to break up the conspiracy in a gun twirling classic western shoot out and battle of wits. This exquisite clothbound volume features the illustrations of John Lawrence, a removable board game Peril of the Pole on the inside back cover, and a glimpse for Pullman fans into the first friendship of two of the most beloved characters in the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison.

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions. In Pullman’s own words, The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories. Written with unstinting authority, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. After drawing the ire of religious conservatives with his young adult book trilogy His Dark Materials, the author Philip Pullman is again taking on potentially controversial subject matter. His next novel is to be a fictionalized account of the life of Jesus that will differ from the version presented in the New Testament. Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times

Thunderbolt’s Waxwork

Fake coins are turning up al over Lambeth, and people are starting to get really angry. Then the police arrest Thunderbolts father. Is he really the forger? The New Cut Gang are sure he’s innocent and decide to turn detective.

The Ruby in the Smoke

In search of clues to the mystery of her father’s death, 16 year old Sally Lockhart ventures into the shadowy underworld of Victorian London. Pursued by villains at every turn, the intrepid Sally finally uncovers two dark mysteries and realizes that she herself is the key to both.’In Dickensian fashion, Pullman tells the story of 16 year old Sally Lockhart, who becomes involved in a deadly web of events as she searches for a mysterious ruby. The novel is a page turner, peopled with despicable hags, forthright heroes, and children living on the underbelly of 19th century London. The story’s events are exciting, with involved plotting. Settings and characterizations are exquisitely drawn. The first entry in a planned trilogy.’ starred Booklist. Reading level: 6.7. From the Paperback edition.

The Shadow in the North

A second brilliant bauble, perhaps more foreboding and terrifying than The Ruby in the Smoke. Publisher’s WeeklyWill the sea give up its dead?The year is 1878, and the spirited Sally Lockhart, once again defying Victorian sensibilities, has gone into business for herself. When one of her clients loses a large sum of money in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally sets out to investigate. But as she delves deeper into the identity of the wealthy and elusive industrialist who owns the doomed company, she uncovers a plot so diabolical that it could eventually subvert the entire civilized world and if Sally’s enemies have their way, she won t live long enough to see it happen. Philip Pullman, author of the award winning His Dark Materials, continues the nerve shattering story of his canny and courageous hero*ine in this second Sally Lockhart mystery.

The Tiger in the Well

Sally, now 25, is comfortably settled with her child, Harriet, her work, and her London friends. But when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet’s father, Sally’s whole world comes crashing down around her. With nowhere to turn, she escapes with Harriet into the slums of London’s East End and finds help in some unexpected quarters.’Pullman is fast becoming a modern day Dickens for young adults. The setting is the same, the strong eye for characters is there, as are the brooding atmosphere, the social conscience, and the ability to spin plot within plot. Sally Lockhart is now a young woman, left alone with a toddler. Nothing prepares her for the shock of receiving a summons from a man she has never even heard of, suing for divorce and the custody of her beloved Harriet. Sally struggles against the net closing around her, seeking to find out who is persecuting her and why. The writing style is lively and direct, and there’s lots of action. This is a suspense novel with a conscience, and a most enjoyable one.’ School Library Journal. From the Paperback edition.

The Tin Princess

Days after she witnesses a mysterious explosion in 19th century London, 16 year old Becky Winter is on her way to a small country In Central Europe, as a companion to Adelaide, a Co*ckney commoner who’d rather play board games than be a princess. But after an assassination makes Adelaide ruler of Razkavia, she rises to the occasion and her new station, gleefully playing international politics with the help of Becky and Jim Taylor, a dashing young detective.

Count Karlstein

Can you hear the distant howling of hounds and the thunder of ghostly hooves? It’s All Souls’ Eve and Zamiel the Demon Huntsman has come to claim his prey! He’s headed straight for Castle Karlstein, where the evil count has hatched an evil plan; he’ll sacrifice his two young nieces to save himself. Can Lucy and Charlotte outwit their uncle and his oily henchmen to escape their dreadful fate? From the award winning author of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife comes a spooky, funny thriller just right for those middle grade readers looking for horror and humor. From the Hardcover edition.

Spring-Heeled Jack

Spring Heeled Jack: The name evoked awe from both criminals and upstanding citizens alike. Some thought he was the devil, but he was actually the original superhero leaping over the buildings of Victorian England with the help of springs in the heels of his shoes. The story begins as three young innocents escape their orphanage one dark and stormy night. As they make their way through the treacherous streets of London danger lurks, for hiding in the shadows is Mack the Knife, the most villainous of villains. Enter Spring Heeled Jack, the springiest of heroes. But will Jack’s powers be enough to save the orphans?Originally published in paperback, Spring Heeled Jack is back now as a hardcover with eye catching new jacket art. From the Hardcover edition.

The Broken Bridge

Although she has been raised by her father, sixteen-year-old Ginny has always felt a bond with her mother, a Haitian painter whom she has never known. Like her mother, Ginny is a talented and passionate artist. As the only mixed-race teen in a small Welsh village, Ginny hasn’t always had an easy life, but her love for art has always helped her get along. Then her world is turned upside down. First she learns that she has a white half brother, the child of her father’s first marriage. Then she uncovers some startling news about her mother. Suddenly, her whole life seems like a lie. Desperate and confused, Ginny sets off on an urgent quest to find the truth about her past – and lay claim to her true identity.

The White Mercedes

A suspense packed thriller centers on the character of Chris, a young man who experiences a fateful meeting with a girl at an Oxford party, only to become caught in the schemes of a criminal out for revenge. By the author of The Broken Bridge.

The Firework-Maker’s Daughter

Chivers Children’s Audio Books is proud to present you with our brand new collection of titles on Compact Disc! As always, these high quality books are recorded complete and unabridged. All of our titles will still be available on cassette, but now you have the opportunity to order selected Chivers Children’s Audio Books on Compact Disc!What Lila wants to be more than anything else in the world is…
a Firework Maker! But firework making isn’t just about being able to make Crackle Dragons and Golden Sneezes. There is also one special secret: every Firework Maker must take a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire Fiend! Not knowing that she needs special protection to survive the Fire Fiend’s flames, Lila sets off alone. Her friends Chulak and Hamlet the King’s white elephants race after her. But can they reach her in time?

Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up

The apprentice’s friends think hearing the latest story by Fritz, the writer, will cheer poor Karl up. At least it will distract Karl from the fact that he hasn’t produced a new moving figure for the great timepiece at the center of town, as he was supposed to. But to Fritz’s horror the story he tells Karl begins to come true, and one of the main characters the evil Dr. Kalmenius shows up with a terrifying piece of clockwork. It’s a knight called Sir Ironsoul. And when Karl decides to accept Dr. Kalmenius’s offer and try to pass Sir Ironsoul off as his own work, the results are…
well, deadly.

The Butterfly Tattoo

Chris falls in love with Jenny the moment he sets eyes on her at an Oxford ball. She’s beautiful but secretive and he can’t help but want to be with her. But fate is cruel and, as their relationship blossoms, tragedy and violence wait in the wings. Chris’s boss has a shady past that won’t stay hidden. And his ruthless enemies will use two innocent teenagers to exact their revenge on him…

I Was a Rat!

I Was a Rat!

So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge newspaper is sure of it. A lucrative fairground freak? He is to Mr. Tapscrew. A championship wriggler and a budding thief? That’s the hope of Billy and his gang. A victim of ‘Rodent Delusion’? So says the hospital doctor.

Or just an ordinary small boy, though a little ratty in his habits? Only three people believe this version of the story. And it may take a royal intervention and a bit of magic to convince the rest of the world…
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Set against the backdrop of a royal wedding with a pertinent parody of the press here’s Philip Pullman’s youngest, funniest novel to date: a magical weaving of humor, fairy tale, and adventure.

The Scarecrow and His Servant

A tattered scarecrow stands in the middle of a muddy field, taking no notice of the violent thunderstorm around him. But when a bolt of lightning strikes him, fizzing its way through his turnip head and down his broomstick, the Scarecrow blinks with surprise and comes to life.
So begins the story of the Scarecrow, a courteous but pea brained fellow with grand ideas. He meets a boy, Jack, who becomes his faithful servant. Leaving behind his bird scaring duties, the Scarecrow sets out for Spring Valley, with Jack at his side. As the valiant Scarecrow plunges them into terrifying dangers battles, brigands, broken hearts, and treasure islands he never realizes he’s being followed by the one family who desperately wishes he d never sprung to life. Will the Scarecrow discover the secret to his past before the crooked Buffalonis close in on him?

From the Hardcover edition.

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Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library Literary Society is a non profit educational organization. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river. But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.

Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror

The demand for new drama literature for Key Stages 3 and 4 is met by these original scripts and adaptations of popular children’s fiction. The curriculum requirements for studying genuine dramatic literature will be achieved by studying these accessible theatre scripts. The plays can be successfully performed by pupils as they have already been performed in public to popular acclaim. The sophisticated themes and complex plots have been specifically designed to appeal to 11 16 year olds, and have a language level accessible to all pupils. These dramatic adaptations of popular texts allow pupils to respond to the subject matter from a new angle.

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

Philip Pullman garnered every accolade around with the breathtaking His Dark Materials trilogy. Now he turns his storytelling gifts to one of the most famous of the Arabian Nights tales, ‘Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp.’ Aladdin is a shiftless good for nothing boy until he unwittingly acquires a magic lamp inhabited by a genie and the adventure that follows both makes his fortune and makes him a man. Pullman tells the tale with his trademark crisp writing and fast paced action, while Sophy Williams’s pastels shimmer with the heat and beauty of the Far East. Terrific for reading aloud!

Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline

Here’s what the old miller left his sons when he died: To his oldest son, the mill. To his middle son, the donkey. To his youngest son, Jacques,the cat. A fine cat, indeed, but still, just a cat. Luckily, as Jacques discovers, Puss is no ordinary kitty. He’s smart. He can talk. And he is quite a snappy dresser. He’s also planned an exciting future for Jacques one that involves a princess and a very large fortune. Master storyteller Philip Pullman and prizewinning illustrator Ian Beck team up in this witty retelling, which sparkles with humor and adventure.

Blind Date (By:R.L. Stine)

A blind date turns into a nightmare.

The Lifeguard (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick)

Kelsey’s summer should have been paradise a holiday on Beverly Island, complete with sun drenched beaches and gorgeous lifeguards. But Kelsey’s dream holiday quickly turns into a nightmare. It starts with the note from a girl who’s missing. And there have been a number of suspicious drownings.

Beach House (By:R.L. Stine)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As a group of teenagers enjoys the sun and surf at the beach, a killer who never leaves a clue and who disappears without a trace stalks them one by one.

Party Line (By:A. Bates)

Mark has discovered a way to meet girls on the teen party line. Unfortunately, he also discovers that some of the new girls he meets on the phone have disappeared. What started as a way to get dates, leads Mark into a frightening mystery one that becomes dangerous as well!.

The Baby-Sitter (By:R.L. Stine)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jenny regrets taking the Hagen baby sitting job when she sees their gloomy house, begins receiving crank phone calls, discovers prowlers in the backyard, and finds a threatening note.

April Fools (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick)

Coming home from a forbidden April Fools party, Belinda and her friends witness a horrible accident. When no one appears to have survived, the three friends vow not to admit they were there. Then the sick pranks begin, and Belinda must discover the truth to save their lives!

Final Exam (By:A. Bates)

Kelly has always been afraid of final exams. Now she is scared to death. All during finals’ week someone has been playing cruel pranks on her. After she wakes up in a burning room, she knows that someone is trying to kill her and that their final confrontation will be her toughest test ever.

Funhouse (By:Diane Hoh)

When the Devil’s Elbow roller coaster goes off track, killing one teenager and maiming two others, everyone thinks it’s just an accident…
except Tess. She saw someone tampering with the track. Then another ‘accident’ occurs in the Funhouse and Tess may have been the intended victim.

Beach Party (By:R.L. Stine)

It’s the ultimate beach party in California. And Karen, who’s just broken up with her boyfriend, is going to enjoy every minute of it especially having two new guys who like her. But the party takes a nasty turn when Karen realizes someone is out to spoil the fun by getting rid of her.

The Boyfriend (By:R.L. Stine)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Joanne is flippant about her relationship with the people in her life, but when her recently deceased boyfriend returns from the grave, her life is no longer a laughing matter.

The Baby-Sitter II (By:R.L. Stine)

Baby sitter Jenny encounters more horrors from the grave. The sequel to the best selling thriller The Baby sitter.

The Accident (By:Diane Hoh)

Someone was sending Arthur valentines, and Valenties Day wasn’t until Friday. Who was his secret admirer and what was Arthur going to do about it?

Thirteen Tales of Horror (By:R.L. Stine,Judith Bauer Stamper,Lael Littke,Christopher Pike,Caroline B. Cooney,,Carol Ellis,Diane Hoh,A. Bates,D.E. Athkins,Sinclair Smith)

Assembled on the pages of this anthology are 13 original short stories by the best known writers of the genre: Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, A. Bates, D.E. Athkins, Lael Littke and Pat Windsor just to name a few.

They have given us their best…

You’ll be cast into an endless night of wax museum horrors, vampire love, deadly dolls, and…
who knows what else may await you?

So let the masters take you and do their worst with their best.

The Girlfriend (By:R.L. Stine)

Scotty has the perfect girlfriend. Lora is smart, beautiful, and popular. When Lora goes out of town, Scotty has an unforgettable secret weekend with Shannon, a girl he just met. On Monday, Scotty wants to go back to Lora, but Shannon plans to keep Scotty any way she can and some ways are pretty horrible.

Freeze Tag (By:Caroline B. Cooney)

From best selling author Caroline Cooney comes this suspenseful story of Meghan, whose relationship with her perfect boyfriend is destroyed by a girl who can freeze people with a touch of her finger. When Meghan and West first played Freeze Tag with Lannie, it was no ordinary game. Because when Lannie tagged someone, they really froze. Icy blue and cold. Like death. Now Meghan, West, and Lannie are in high school, and Meghan and West are in love. They’re the perfect couple. But Lannie is determined to have West for her very own…
and if she doesn’t get her way, she’ll freeze Meghan…
to death.

Fatal Secrets (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick)

Sometimes the truth is like skating on thin ice. When the ice breaks, no one can save you.

The Invitation (By:Diane Hoh)

It arrives on crisp, ivory paper with elegant gold script. It is an invitation to a party like no other, an invitation to death. Written by the same author as ‘Funhouse’.

Mirror, Mirror (By:D.E. Athkins)

Offered a chance to have it all beauty, popularity, and more Dore jumps at the chance, but her pact with her new friend, Luci, may have cost her her soul.

The Fever (By:Diane Hoh)

After hearing a violent crime committed in a room near hers, Duffy, hospitalized and weak with a fever that is coursing through her body, must figure out what happened that night and keep herself from becoming the next victim.

Hit And Run (By:R.L. Stine)

Out on the road helping Eddie practice for his driving test, Scott, Winks, and Cassie are horrified when Eddie accidentally hits and kills a pedestrian, and the four friends are soon keeping a terrible secret.

The Train (By:Diane Hoh)

His real name was Roger. But from the day he started at Parker High to the day of his sudden and horrible death, he was taunted and ridiculed, cruelly nicknamed Frog by his classmates.

One by one, Hannah’s friends guiltily confess the nasty things they did to Frog. And then, one by one,they are viciously attacked.

The Ripper (By:D.E. Athkins)

When an innocent game played by a group of teens leads to the death of one of them, the surviving friends must figure out who among them is the killer.

The Cheerleader (By:Caroline B. Cooney)

Althea is a nobody who wants to be somebody. She wants to be noticed, to have friends, to be part of the popular crowd. Then she meets the vampire who lives in the circular tower in her new house. The vampire says that he can make her popular more popular than she ever imagined she could be. All Althea has to do is agree to a simple deal. So simple a promise, but so evil.

The Baby-Sitter 3 (By:R.L. Stine)

Eager to escape her haunting past, Jenny visits her cousin, also a baby sitter, and brings her bad luck with her. By the author of The Baby sitter and The Baby sitter II.

The Hitchhiker (By:R.L. Stine)

Despite the warnings of her best friend, Terri, Christina stops to pick up a handsome hitchhiker and learns a costly lesson in terror.

Twins (By:Caroline B. Cooney)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Wishing to be more like her dead identical twin, pretty, popular, and loved by her boyfriend, Mary Lee steps into the shoes of her sister, Madrigal, and discovers a horrible legacy of evil and the truth behind her sister’s real identity.

The Hunter (By:L.J. Smith)

When Jenny Thorton and her friends open the mysterious white box given to her by Julian, they discover a mysterious game and enter a house of horrors full of their worst nightmares.

The Chase (By:L.J. Smith)

Jenny’s friends are lost one by one to a ghostly wolf and a phantom snake, instruments of the sinister but attractive Shadow Man, who has returned from the Shadow World with a deadly game called ”Lambs and Monsters.”

Call Waiting (By:R.L. Stine)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A killer who phones his victims before murdering them is stalking Karen, and if Karen cannot trace the caller, she will become his next conquest.

Driver’s Dead (By:Peter Lerangis)

Kirsten has moved into a house with a past. Its last tenants were a Vietnamese family whose son was killed after stealing a car and driving into a tree. When Kirsten meets tough but irresistible Rob in driver’s ed class and Rob turns up missing suddenly she finds herself caught in a mystery that involves vengeance, racism, car culture, and the deep secrets of a small suburban town. This popular horror/thriller has been translated into many languages and is now available through the author’s own collection. Each copy is signed by Peter Lerangis.

The Babysitter IV (By:R.L. Stine)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jenny regrets taking the Hagen baby sitting job when she sees their gloomy house, begins receiving crank phone calls, discovers prowlers in the backyard, and finds a threatening note.

Hide and Seek (By:Jane McFann)

Lissa, a quiet, withdrawn girl, pursues a life of solitude and dreams of the day she will leave home, until a dangerous person who seems to know everything about her inexplicably targets her for murder.

Blood Curse (By:Janice Harrell)

A teenage vampire is forced to resist her bloodthirsty nature when she falls in love with a mortal boy, and her growing feelings make her desperately seek to become human again.

Amnesia (By:Sinclair Smith)

Waking up with amnesia, Alicia finds the only link to her past is her sister Marta, who brings her home from the hospital and begins to help her reconstruct her memory, but Alicia soon realizes that Marta wants to keep her from remembering something.

The Unseen: It Begins (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick)

Out walking alone one rainy night, Lucy becomes convinced that someone or something is following her. Spooked, she ducks into a cemetery to try and lose her stalker. Panicking in the darkness, she slips and stumbles into an open grave only to discover she is not alone in there…
. Lucy manages to escape, but she doesn t get away unscathed. She begins having terrifying visions and dreams and she still can t shake the feeling of an unseen presence, always watching, waiting…
. Who was the girl in the grave? And what has she done to Lucy?

The Unseen Part 2: Rest In Peace (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick)

Still stalked by an unseen force and plagued by unspeakable visions, Lucy feels she cannot carry on for much longer especially now that Byron, the one person who understood what she was going through, is dead. No one else believes her. She is still alone. And still in grave danger. In the first two books in The Unseen series, horror maven Richie Tankersley Cusick will take you on a journey into a nightmare so frightening, you will have to sleep with a light on.

Sin and Salvation (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick)

Too many deaths and too many terrifying visions have taken their toll on Lucy Dennison. She wonders if she can trust anyone or anything anymore. In the chilling finale to The Unseen quartet, Lucy comes face to face with the force that has turned her life into a waking nightmare…
. And the ultimate choice must be made: love or life? Sin or salvation? In The Unseen series, horror maven Richie Tankersley Cusick takes you on a journey into a nightmare so frightening, you ll have to sleep with a light on. Go for it we dare you!

The Unseen Part 3: Blood Brothers (By:Richie Tankersley Cusick)

Lucy knows there must be something, somewhere, that can tell her why she was chosen to see the terrible visions; why she feels the shadowy presence all around her. But what? Could the explanation lie with the mysterious stranger claiming to be Byron’s brother? As Lucy searches desperately for answers, she knows time is running out. Too many people have disappeared or worse and the constant feeling of being surrounded by something truly evil grows stronger each night.

Ghost Stories (By:Robert Westall)

Twenty two ghost stories, ranging from the gentle beauty of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn to the chilling horror of Thornley Abbey, make this a treat for all fans and the perfect introduction for anyone coming to this genre for the first time. It includes stories by masters of suspense such as Charles Dickens, John Gordon and Ray Bradbury, and takes the widest possible view of the supernatural. Each tale whether funny, ironic or just plain scary is a classic of its kind!

Mystery (By:Helen Cresswell)

Including tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, and Joan Aiken, this collection of eighteen stories offers a marvelous sampling of the mystery genre from classic detective to humorous contemporary.

Mystifying (By:Helen Cresswell)

Just in time for the spooky season, this collection of nineteen stories is full of mysterious circumstances and spine tingling plot twists. Edited by one of the greats of children’s literature and including stories by such masterful authors as Ursula Le Guin, Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones, and Agatha Christie, this collection is just the thing to get readers pulses racing.

Mystery Stories (By:Helen Cresswell)

Including tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, and Joan Aiken, this collection of eighteen stories offers a marvelous sampling of the mystery genre from classic detective to humorous contemporary.

Ballet Stories (By:Sally Holmes)

From the anxiety of auditions to the excitement of performing, these fifteen stories encompass all facets of the dance experience. There are contributions from renowned ballerinas and writers alike, including Margot Fonteyn, Amy Hest, and Cynthia Voigt.

Detective Stories

Young mystery fans will be enthralled by this compelling volume of classic detective fiction. Not even Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot can solve the dilemma of which one of these fifteen exciting and intriguing short stories to read first. The list of suspects including such classic and contemporary writers as Italo Calvino, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Damon Runyon, and Andrew Vacchs may offer clues but no solution. Both the burden of proof and the delectation of detection must fall upon the reader as ultimate sleuth. ‘Stories are vital. There’s more wisdom in a story than in volumes of philosophy, and there’s a hunger for stories in all of us.’ Philip Pullman

Animal Stories (By:Michael Morpurgo)

Inspired by classroom time and television programming devoted to wildlife, conservation, and environmental issues, today’s children have a zest for the outdoors and an ardent appreciation of the creatures with which they share the planet. This collection offers a caliber of stories and extracts several notches above the expected fare in a compilation. The list of renowned contributors includes such luminaries as John Steinbeck The Red Pony, Michael Morpurgo Waiting for Anya, and Jack London The Call of the Wild. With such stories as Rudyard Kipling’s The Cat that Walked by Himself, through favorites such as Paul Gallico’s The Snow Goose, and contemporary tales such as Ted Hughes’ powerful Iron Woman, Animal Stories is a terrific introduction to classic literature and nature writing for children and young adults.

Whodunit?

Unexplained disappearances, daring thefts, perplexing mysteries, and the greatest sleuths of all time combine in this page turning read. From Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot, famous detectives puzzle their way through a maze of alibis and motives in this superb selection of classic and contemporary crime fiction.

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