Shades of Simon Gray
10 best books like Shades of Simon Gray (Joyce McDonald): Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Gossip Girl: The Second Collection, Secret Heart, The Gospel According to Larry, Billy Budd and Other Tales, 50 Great American Short Stories, Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays, Grass for His Pillow, Episode 1: Lord Fujiwara's Treasures, Sang Spell, The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices
| Author | Richard Appignanesi |
| ISBN | 0810993252 |
"Now presenting Manga Shakespearethe Bards greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readers"
Romeo and Juliet" is ideally suited for the manga formatit has teenage heroes, scheming and villainous adults, heartbreaking tragedy, and the ultimate romantic plot...
| Author | Cecily von Ziegesar |
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| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0440418275 |
Joe Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him to be a man, and he can’t be that yet. His only friend, Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and Joe can’t learn that. Joe’s mind is always somewhere else: on the weird creatures he sees in the distant sky, the songs he hears in the air...
| Author | Janet Tashjian |
| ISBN | 0141318341 |
A funny, thoughtful novel that takes on some sophisticated issues such as celebrity worship, consumerism and the way multinational corporations shape our lives. Ages 12-up.
Josh Swensen is not your average 17-year-old. At the age of two, he was figuring out algebraic equations with colored...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0451526872 |
Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.
[That was sarcasm.]
His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
A Splendid collection of 50 stories from Washington Irving's 'The Adventures Of A German Student' to John Updike's 'The Lucid Eye in Silver Town'.
Such classic stories as Edgar Allan Poe’s 'Ms. Found in a Bottle', Bret Harte’s 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat', Sherwood Anderson’s 'Death in...
| Author | Brendan Burford |
| ISBN | 0345505298 |
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.
Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island....
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 0142404233 |
Lord Fujiwara's Treasures begins the second book in the Tales of the Otori, serving as the first act of Grass for His Pillow. If this is confusing, welcome to the club. Grass for His Pillow is the second book, but it's published in two parts, this one being the first. It's not even a complete story, since...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689820062 |
Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primitive village called Canara, seemingly hidden from the modern world, with no cars or telephones...
| Author | Edric S. Mesmer |
| ISBN | 0439296749 |
Just in time for National Poetry Month, a fantastic collection of some of the best poems ever.
These are some of the most amazing poems ever written, touching the heart, challenging the mind, and conjuring worlds of experience and imagination.
Included are poems by:
Emily Dickinson
Edgar...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590742590 |
Well that was a waste of two hours. This book is really boring and pointless. "Hey, let's spend a whole book forshadowing an awesome love story, and have it end in nothing. And then that'll just be it." It was pointless. There was no reason to even write it. Why didn't she just write on a napkin, "Hey, this...
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0451527879 |
The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part...
| Author | John Grandits |
| ISBN | 0618503617 |
An eleven-year-old boy named Robert voices typical—and not so typical—middle-grade concerns in this unique, memorable collection of hilarious poems. His musings cover the usual stuff, like pizza, homework, thank-you notes, and his annoying older sister. In addition, he speculates about...
| Author | Debra Doyle |
| ISBN | 0816769974 |
Wrapping up Randal's story. This and The Wizard's Castle, like the first two, are tied strongly to the earlier ones, and each other.
Randal, Walter, and Lys are escorted to Elfland by Madoc -- who can't come with them. They must go alone to bring back the High King's daughter and rightful heir....
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0916144224 |
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
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London, 1899. As the British Empire lies in mortal jeopardy, a top-secret initiative unites several of the most illustrious (and sometimes infamous) personages of the age: Allan Quartermain, famed explorer and adventurer; Captain Nemo, master of the undersea submersible Nautilus; Dr. Henry Jekyll,...
| Author | William W. Johnstone |
| ISBN | 0786006358 |
"We're the last known barrier against total, worldwide anarchy. If we fall, the whole damn world falls with us."
--Ben Raines
Yes We Can
To the few who survived the Great War, their reward was a cruel joke. The politicians had told them that all the major cities of the world had been destroyed,...
| Author | Carmen Rodrigues |
| ISBN | 0425219283 |
A powerful debut novel about a girl living a not-so-glamorous life in a city that's all about glamour.
It always sounds way more glamorous than it is when Susie Shannon tells people that she's from Miami. But Miami's not all sunshine and hotties. It's endless zip codes and mega high schools where,...
| Author | Rick Bragg |
| ISBN | 0375725520 |
With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others.
For twenty years, Bragg has focused his efforts on...
Norway, 704 A.D.
The valiant King Ulfur defeated the evil that swept the seaside village of Nornör into despair; Morgan, the demon witch, has been dead for nearly twenty years. The truce between King Úlfur and the Queen of the Fae has remained intact since the day that Morgan’s dark curses...
| Author | Stella Cameron |
| ISBN | 0778320839 |
When Vivian Patin inherits Rosebanks, a family estate that has seen better days, she's determined to turn it into a successful hotel. When her lawyer tells her he has great news--news that will give Vivian and her mother financial security--she awaits his arrival in expectation. What she discovers...
| Author | Brian Strause |
| ISBN | 0812975197 |
When he finds his sister, Annika, floating facedown in the family pool the night of his senior prom, Monroe Anderson becomes a reluctant hero. He saves her from drowning, but despite his efforts she slips into a coma. What follows astonishes everyone: Within days of the accident, mysterious events...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0140367055 |
Through the foggy streets of Victoria London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson embark on eight thrilling investigations. In some of his best known cases including 'The Speckled Band' and 'The Reigate Puzzle', Holmes brings his unique powers of deduction to bear on the most...
Rockwood Hills Junior High is known for the close-knit cliques that rule the school. When arty new girl Dina gets the opportunity to do a video project with queen bee Chelsea, she thinks this is her ticket to a great new social life. But Chelsea has bigger problems than Dina can imagine: her father has lost...
