Fiction
Counting Stars. 1st American ed. Delacorte, 2002.
In a series of interconnected stories, a boy
describes his life growing up in the English urban district of
Felling.
Heaven Eyes. 1st American ed. New York: Delacorte,
2001.
Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin,
January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned
warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even
stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past.
Kit's Wilderness. 1st American ed. New York: Delacorte, 1999; Large
print ed. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press,
2000.
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in
the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both
the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
Secret Heart. Delacorte, 2002.
Living with his mother in a small village on
the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe
Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger
whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends
a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby
traveling circus.
Skellig.
1st American ed. New York: Delacorte Press, 1999; Large
print ed. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike, 2000.
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of
moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and
finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something
like an angel.
Inez Ramsey
