Geraldine McCaughrean - Author

Where the World Ends
Geraldine McCaughrean
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 | Shortlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award | In a nutshell: beautifully written, totally original, mesmerising storytelling In the summer of 1727 a group of men and boys, there to harvest birds...
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Format: Paperback | Released 08/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

Where the World Ends
Geraldine McCaughrean
One of our Books of the Year 2017 | Shortlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award May 2017 Book of the Month | In a nutshell: beautifully written, totally original, mesmerising storytelling | In the summer of 1727 a...
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Format: Hardback | Released 01/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Middle of Nowhere
Geraldine McCaughrean
Shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal - One of our Books of the Year 2014 - Shortlisted for The Little Rebels Children's Book Award 2014 Award-winning Geraldine McCaughrean captures a far off landscape and a far off time in her fabulously...
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Format: Paperback | Released 01/05/2014 Info Extract Buy

The Positively Last Performance
Geraldine McCaughrean
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2014 Award winning Geraldine McCaughrean spins a brilliantly fanciful yarn in the magical setting of a disused theatre. Every night amazing things happen in the theatre but no one except the resident ghosts can see...
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Format: Paperback | Released 06/02/2014 Info Extract Buy

The Orchard Book of Greek Myths
Geraldine McCaughrean - illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
A wonderful 21st anniversary edition of this classic collection of sixteen favourite Greek myths. Jenny Downham, January 2011 Guest Editor, chose this book: "I was given a book of Greek myths by my brother for my 11th birthday, I reread...
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Format: Hardback | Released 03/10/2013 Info Extract Buy

The Middle of Nowhere
Geraldine McCaughrean
October 2013 Book of the Month Award-winning Geraldine McCaughrean captures a far off landscape and a far off time in her fabulously dramatic nineteenth century story interwoven with the magic of the mysterious and stories of the Aboriginal Dreamtime. With...
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Format: Hardback | Released 01/10/2013 Info Extract Buy

Go! Go! Chichico!
Geraldine McCaughrean - illustrated by Tom Percival
Interest Age 5-7+ A brilliant footballing story from award winning Geraldine McCaughrean. Chichico is scouted for a try out at Santos Brazil. The only problem is that he doesn't have any boots! His friends Davi and Anna find a pair...
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Format: Paperback | Released 08/02/2013 Info Extract Buy

The Positively Last Performance
Geraldine McCaughrean
Award winning Geraldine McCaughrean spins a brilliantly fanciful yarn in the magical setting of a disused theatre. Every night amazing things happen in the theatre but no one except the resident ghosts can see them. But then Gracie comes along;...
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Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2013 Info Extract Buy

The Nutcracker
Geraldine McCaughrean - illustrated by Kristina Swarner
A retelling of the story of Marie, who is given a special nutcracker doll for Christmas. The nutcracker comes alive, turns into a handsome prince, and the marvellous adventures begin.
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Format: Hardback | Released 04/10/2012 Info Extract Buy

The Wish-Bringer
Geraldine McCaughrean - illustrated by Jana Diemberger
Award-winning Geraldine McCaughrean tells more heart-warming stories as she brings to life the charming but impish little character Montecello, an orphan who haunts the streets of his birthplace Naples, sometimes bringing joy and sometimes playing tricks, according to his mood...
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Format: Paperback | Released 27/09/2012 Info Extract Buy

Pull Out All the Stops!
Geraldine McCaughrean
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. With a huge and original cast and a never ending supply of witty and original incident, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story from an award-winning writer. Cissy escapes from the...
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Format: Paperback | Released 02/06/2011 Info Extract Buy

Monacello The Little Monk
Geraldine McCaughrean - illustrated by Jana Diemberger
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Format: Paperback | Released 28/04/2011 Info Extract Buy

Pull Out All the Stops!
Geraldine McCaughrean
With a huge and original cast and a never ending supply of witty and original incident, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story from an award-winning writer. Cissy escapes from the boredom of life in her home town and especially the...
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Format: Hardback | Released 07/10/2010 Info Extract Buy

The Death-defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine McCaughrean
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Prize-winning Geraldine McCaughrean has turned her deft hand to a brilliantly witty and fast moving story about a boy who wants to defy his destiny....
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Format: Paperback | Released 03/06/2010 Info Extract Buy

The Death-defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine McCaughrean
Prize-winning Geraldine McCaughrean has turned her deft hand to a brilliantly witty and fast moving story about a boy who wants to defy his destiny. Pepper is an unusual name and Pepper Roux is an unusual child especially since, according...
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Format: Hardback | Released 01/10/2009 Info Extract Buy

Peter Pan In Scarlet (Illustrated Edition)
Geraldine McCaughrean
This is a lush, illustrated gift edition of Geraldine McCaughrean's official sequel to Peter Pan that was such a huge bestseller when it first came out in both hardback and paperback. The text in this special edition has been specially...
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Format: Hardback | Released 02/10/2008 Info Extract Buy

Tamburlaine's Elephants
Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is a genius in her ability to draw the reader in to a part of history that might not immediately spring to mind as being of interest and yet she makes you hungry for more. Here she draws...
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Format: Paperback | Released 26/09/2008 Info Extract Buy

Cyrano
Geraldine McCaughrean
A hilarious retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic romantic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano is a man of action, a soldier, a man of letters, and a hopeless romantic, and his one defect is his enormous nose. Poor Cyrano is hopelessly...
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Format: Paperback | Released 03/01/2008 Info Extract Buy

Peter Pan In Scarlet
Geraldine McCaughrean
At last a sequel to one of the most endearing classics of all time. The author chosen to undertake this literary feat is not a household name but she is, a supremely talented storyteller and a winner of virtually every...
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Format: Paperback | Released 04/10/2007 Info Extract Buy

Plundering Paradise
Geraldine McCaughrean
When you read this you'll realise why the author put herself forward to write the sequel to JM Barrie's Peter Pan for this is a swashbuckling pirate adventure. Not surprisingly it won a major award for it will have...
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Format: Paperback | Released 04/10/2007 Info Extract Buy

Gold Dust
Geraldine McCaughrean
As with so many of Geraldine's novels, she has in Gold Dust created an entirely original yet believable world, this time in Brazil. Utterly engrossing, fast-paced, full of humour and heartbreak your imagination will run riot throughout the novel and...
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Stop The Train
Geraldine McCaughrean
This is a tense, fast-moving adventure story set just over a hundred years ago in the American mid-west. When the trains cease to stop at a settlement the livelihood of the families there are at stake and the community get...
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The Kite Rider
Geraldine McCaughrean
This is an absolutely marvellous soaring adventure that gives you a glimpse, and a memorable one at that, of another world. The story is completely original, like nothing you will have read before and utterly compulsive. The words are rich...
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Tamburlaine's Elephants
Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is a genius in her ability to draw the reader in to a part of history that might not immediately spring to mind as being of interest and yet she makes you hungry for more. Here, she draws...
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Format: Hardback | Released 28/09/2007 Info Extract Buy

Fig's Giant
Geraldine McCaughrean
Gulliver's Travels remains one of the all-time children's classics and in years to come Fig's Giant, a stunning picture book for toddlers and young children will deservedly become a classic too. The author's take on Lilliput and the Lilliputians is...
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Format: Paperback | Released 05/10/2006 Info Extract Buy

Peter Pan In Scarlet
Geraldine McCaughrean
At last a sequel to one of the most endearing classics of all time. The author chosen to undertake this literary feat is not a household name but she is, a supremely talented storyteller and a winner of virtually every...
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The White Darkness
Geraldine McCaughrean
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. What the judges said: McCaughrean's control of language and style ensures that this novel, with its original and ambitious plot, produces a fast-moving adventure story. It's an outstanding survival fantasy that explores the pain of...
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Format: Paperback | Released 07/09/2006 Info Extract Buy

The Questing Knights of the Faerie Queen
Geraldine McCaughrean
A beautiful book, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, this is an accessible prose re-telling of the story of the Faerie Queen, Spenser's romantic poem first written for Queen Elizabeth 1. Full of adventure with knights and dragons, princesses...
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Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2006 Info Extract Buy

Mo
Geraldine McCaughrean
Hilarious! Mo is a most unusual mobile phone – and definitely not one it is easy to own. Shane has always wanted a mobile phone but Mo is not the phone he wants. Mo answers back, sings opera at inconvenient...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) | Released 19/01/2006 Info Extract Buy

One Thousand And One Arabian Nights
Geraldine McCaughrean
A completely original version of the Arabian Nights Stories by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. In order to delay her inevitable execution, Queen Shaharazad tells her murdering husband, King Shahryar, an exciting story every night. She tells her wonderful stories until...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) | Released 15/07/1999 Info Extract Buy

The Orchard Book of Greek Myths
Geraldine McCaughrean - illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
Jenny Downham, January 2011 Guest Editor, chose this book: "I was given a book of Greek myths by my brother for my 11th birthday, I reread it so many times it fell apart in my hands and all these years...
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Format: Hardback | Released 27/08/1992 Info Extract Buy