Alan Snow
Author
Series
Ratbridge chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
While gathering food to bring to his grandfather, young Arthur becomes trapped in the city of Ratbridge, where he and some new friends try to stop a plot to shrink the monsters of Arthur's home, the Underworld, for a nefarious purpose.
Author
Series
Ratbridge chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A miracle medicine shortage prompts young Arthur and his Ratbridge friends to set sail aboard the famed rat-pirate vessel Nautical Laundry in search of rare ingredients only to encounter unexpected challenges and an attack at sea.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A beautifully told and illustrated Santa Claus origin story. A young boy is herding his family's reindeer when they are drawn into a mysterious cave. The cave is the holder of eternal summer, looked after by three strange characters. Once entered, the cave cannot be left without time in the outside world standing still. In his sadness at not being able to leave, the boy is granted three wishes and chooses freedom, happiness, and time. After the first...
10) The boxtrolls
Description
A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family....
Author
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Description
When Danny writes to his favorite author, Cyril Specter, Cyril is happy to take revenge on Danny's twenty-first-century wicked stepmother for all the dreadful things she makes Danny do, such as eating fried-hair sandwiches and cleaning up after her vicious pet hyena, Cuddles.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The peaceful Boxtrolls live under the streets of Cheesebridge, but they foiled the plans of the evil Mr. Snatcher by saving a baby, naming him Egg, and raising him as one of them. Now, Mr. Snatcher wants revenge and it is up to Egg and a girl named Winnie to save their friends the Boxtrolls and put an end to Mr. Snatcher's plans.