Gillian Cross
1) The odyssey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
An illustrated adaptation of the mythology classic traces Odysseus' 10-year voyage home after the Trojan War, a fateful journey marked by a man-eating Cyclops, deadly Sirens, the fury of the sea-god Poseidon and Odysseus' faithful wife's efforts to rebuff greedy suitors.
Author
Series
Dark ground trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Robert wakes up naked and alone in a thick jungle. The last thing he remembers is being in a plane with his family, but there is no sign of a crash or survivors. Then he discovers the shocking truth--he is in the park near his house, but his familiar world has been transformed into an alien landscape. When he finds others in the same position, he enlists their help in getting back home. But the journey is more perilous than Robert could ever imagine....
5) New world
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Fourteen-year-old Miriam agrees to test a new computer game in utmost secrecy but finds that it is more than she bargained for.
Author
Series
Dark ground trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Tom, his friend Robert, and Robert's sister Emma attempt to rescue a strange girl Robert believes is the counterpart of Lorn, a tiny person that he met during his own ordeal as a miniature copy of himself.
Author
Series
Dark ground trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Robert tries to get answers from Magee, the strange man he met on the airplane, and works with Tom and Emma to try to rescue Lorn and the others before winter arrives, while Lorn takes it upon herself to find answers and a way to escape her past, if not her present, captivity.
10) Wolf
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Description
Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist.