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Featured Books, with extracts, by Geraldine McCaughrean

Where the World Ends
Geraldine McCaughrean
Shortlisted for 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Monacello The Little Monk
Geraldine McCaughrean
- illustrated by Jana Diemberger
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Format: Paperback | Released 28/04/2011
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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
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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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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
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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
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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: Paperback | Released 26/09/2008
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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: Hardback | Released 05/10/2006
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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