Marcus Sedgwick
1) Revolver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Transferred to a famous asylum after being arrested for his wife's murder in fin-de-siecle Paris, a man with an eidetic memory is investigated by a doctor and a police officer who discover links between the bizarre crime and the highest and lowest establishments in France.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The year is 1944, and Harry Black, a London firefighter battling the blazes caused by constant bombing, awakes in the hospital to learn that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind blurs the distinctions between reality of war-torn London and the myth of Orpheus. Driven by visions of Ellis and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a journey which will lead him deep beneath the city....
6) White crow
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009] c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her.
9) Saint death
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border."--
10) Snowflake, AZ
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Ash finds her stepbrother, Bly, in Snowflake, Arizona, where an odd assortment of neighbors--and soon, Ash--are sick from modern life, paralleling the planet's decline.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Scarlett Hart, orphaned daughter of two legendary monster hunters, is determined to carry on in her parents' footsteps--even if the Royal Academy for the Pursuit and Eradication of Zoological Eccentricities says she's too young to fight perilous horrors. But whether it's creepy mummies or a horrid hound, Scarlett won't back down, and with the help of her loyal butler and a lot of monster-mashing gadgets, she's on the case."--
15) The Dark Horse
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having risen to power as chief of his people, the Storn, sixteen-year-old Sigurd leads them as they try to resist the bloodthirsty invaders known as the Dark Horse and makes a shocking discovery about his foster sister Mouse.
16) A Christmas wish
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a warm Christmas Eve, a young boy wishes that it would snow overnight the way it does in his snow globe.