Books with author Gardner

Ian and Abbi's complete adventures in the Realm, a 5 book collection.Book Excellence Award for a series 2019.The Trilogy (Deception Peak, Dragon Shield, Rubies and Robbers)An adventure fantasy following an unsuspecting teen as he enters a portal to another world and is thrust into conflict with dragon worshipersLayla Born at NightWhen Ian returns to the Realm in search for Abbi and Elisa, he is captured by the sorceresses of Taikus.Fallen MorningHacatine seeks revenge for the massacre of her army and Ian is targeted. Meanwhile Brad and Elisa are interrogated by scienctists back in Seattle.

Canada geese look like dinosaurs when they walk and dragons when they fly. Children will know what it's like to leave the ground and follow the ancient flight paths with Benony, his sisters, family and friends on their yearly migration. There are many adventures and challenges along the way."Benony and His Family of Canada Geese" has fifteen short chapters, middle school level. It is educational as well as entertaining, and is illustrated with beautiful pictures by wildlife photographers.

Olivia can't believe she's really at the legendary Edinburgh Festival. Every summr, people put on plays, they dance and tell jokes, and this year, it's the magnificent Swan Circus! But the run doesn't go smoothly. The Circus ends up homeless, it keeps raining and there's a thief in their midst who's determined to steal the show. As the Festival draws to a close, can anything turn Olivia's soggy summer into a truly enchanted one?

A killer is at large, and Essie is about to offer herself up as bait.Springtime in Bison Creek means mountain blossoms, berry pies, and another dead body. The Hummingbird Inn Bed & Breakfast is the last place Essie Stratter expects to find a crime scene. And with the grand opening just around the corner, Essie joins in the hunt for the killer. But to find the murderer, she must solve one of the town's oldest mysteries – the curse of the Weston house. After a book club feud, a string of gift shop robberies, and an impromptu wedding, Essie realizes her time is up. Now, her only hope at stopping a killer is to offer herself up as bait.

A stirring tale of magic and revolution- fans of The Red Necklace won't want to miss it. The year is 1794. With his beloved Sido safely in England and the Reign of Terror at its height, mysterious Yann returns to revolutionary France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But while the two are apart, Yann?s Gypsy origins prejudice Sido?s guardian against their marriage, thwarting their longed-for reunion. When Sido is kidnapped under strange circumstances, however, Yann must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, rescue Sido, and help save all of France. As she did in The Red Necklace and the award-winning I, Coriander, Sally Gardner spins an epic tale that combines a vivid sense of history, characters full of Dickensian drama and fascination, and a sizzling adventure with touches of magic and romance.

The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen. This is a book filled with enchantments -- a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox - that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander's life in the real world. With its brilliantly realized setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters.

Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep and haunted by dreams he can’t explain and memories he can’t recover. Death doesn’t scare him—his new job with a funeral director may even be his salvation. But if he doesn’t discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up. In this dark and witty psychological drama about survival, Aaron finds that making peace with the dead may be easier than coming to terms with the living.

It's winter at the Swan Academy, and that means that it's panto time! But while Olivia practises being the back end of a horse, everyone else is auditioning for a major new movie. Soon the school is full of rivalry and suspicion, nasty tricks and strange mysteries. To lighten the mood, Eel organises a festive ice-skating trip. But, as the skaters twirl and leap among the twinkling lights, Olivia realises that the season of goodwill is anything but...

When Grendel is drawn up from the caves under the mere where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother into the fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar's meadhall and heap destruction on the humans he finds there. What else can he do? For he is not like the men who busy themselves with God, love and beauty. He sees the infuriating human rage for order and recognises the meaninglessness of his own existence. GRENDEL is John Gardner's masterpiece; it vividly reinvents the world of Beowulf. In Grendel himself, a creature of grotesque comedy, pain and disillusioned intelligence, Gardner has created the most unforgettable monster fantasy.