Geraldine McCaughrean

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1) Where the world ends

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Adventure & Dystopia Books for Older Readers

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In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.

2) Peter Pan in scarlet

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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In the 1930s, all is not well. Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland. Fearing for Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys go back to Neverland -- with the help of the fairy Fireflyer -- only to discover their worst nightmares coming true! Peter Pan and his friends eventually restore Neverland to rights.

3) The white darkness

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

4) Odysseus

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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Heroes volume 01

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The Trojan War is over, and Odysseus longs to return to wife and son on his island kingdom of Ithaca. But between hero and home stands an array of dangers unlike any ever faced by mortal man. On his epic voyage -- an adventure so grand and glorious it has become the very symbol for all great journeys -- Odysseus must face the monstrous cyclops, escape the enchanting nymph Circe, defy the terrors of Scylla and Charybdis, and descend to the land

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5) The death-defying Pepper Roux

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.

6) One thousand and one Arabian nights

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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Presents the classic stories as told by the beautiful queen, Shahrazad, as she staves off execution by relating a series of gripping, wonderful tales.

7) Stop the train!

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.

8) Greek myths

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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Presents retellings of sixteen Greek myths, including the stories of Pandora, Daedalus and Icarus, King Midas, Jason, and Odysseus.

9) Gilgamesh the hero

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McCaughrean, Geraldine

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A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.

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Geraldine McCaughrean

1) Where the world ends

2) Peter Pan in scarlet

3) The white darkness

4) Odysseus

5) The death-defying Pepper Roux

6) One thousand and one Arabian nights

7) Stop the train!

8) Greek myths

9) Gilgamesh the hero

10) The Random House book of stories from the ballet

11) The golden hoard: myths and legends of the world

12) Stories from Shakespeare