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Books by Peter Dickinson






The Ropemaker(Reprint)
(Ropemaker Series)
by Peter Dickinson, Ian P. Andrew
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Delacorte Books For Young Readers
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73063-1, ISBN: 0-385-73063-2

"Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can save the Valley. And much to her amazement, Tilja gradually learns that only she, an ordinary girl with no magical powers, has the ability t ..."






Water(Reprint)
Tales of Elemental Spirits
by Robin Mckinley, Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2004 by Firebird
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-240244-3, ISBN: 0-14-240244-3

"What magical beings inhabit earth?s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer- people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar?s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin Mc ..."






Eva(1st Edition)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1990 by Laurel Leaf
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-440-20766-5, ISBN: 0-440-20766-5

"THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .But there is something, Eva senses, that she’s not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 10/1/1990Pa ..."






Some Deaths Before Dying(1st Edition)
by Peter Dickinson
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Mysterious Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89296-696-7, ISBN: 0-89296-696-3

"The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of other unique novels returns with his first new book in five years; and proves again that in his masterful hands, powerful drama and devastating secrets can be found at the heart of even the smallest mysteries.For nearly her whole life, through ..."






The Last Houseparty(Reprint)
A Crime Novel
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
ISBN-13: 978-1-4976-8447-8, ISBN: 1-4976-8447-1

"In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mystery At the elegant English manor known as Snailwood, tourists come daily to hear decades-old gossip about the second wife of the sixth earl. Zena was a remarkable young woman whose scandalous reputation has been dimmed neither by time nor by her bizarre death. In the 1930s, Zena was the star of a noto ..."






A Bone From a Dry Sea
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1995 by Laurel Leaf
ISBN-13: 978-0-440-21928-6, ISBN: 0-440-21928-0

"Ever wished you could join a group of archaeologists in search of the bones of your ancestors? Meet Vinny, on a visit with her father to the African desert. Their goal: to find the missing link between apes and modern man, thus solving the great mystery of hominid evolution. Despite meagre funding from a no-name source, the unbearable heat, and the loud mouth Dr Joe Hamiska, they might just succeed. While few scientists are wi ..."






The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, Published by Open Road Media Mystery & Thri
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-0485-5, ISBN: 1-5040-0485-X






A Bone from a Dry Sea(Reprint)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Teen & Tween
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-1482-3, ISBN: 1-5040-1482-0

"On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land. The child's people have made their homes by the bay for as long as anyone can remember, diving for mussels and any other food the ocean will serve to them. They have no language; they have no names. Although they know love and jealousy and pride, they are not quite human-not yet. This chi ..."






AK(Reprint)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Teen & Tween
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-1489-2, ISBN: 1-5040-1489-8

"A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a child. He is a warrior-one of a handful of elite commandos who live only to fight the corrupt government of Nagala. He has no family but the boys who fight beside him, and he owns nothing but his AK-47 rifle. This is the only life he has ever known, and it is one he understands-right until the ..."






The Changes Trilogy
The Devil's Children, Heartsease, and The Weathermonger
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 434 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Teen & Tween
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-1476-2, ISBN: 1-5040-1476-6

"Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology. Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all over the island of Britain people react with horror to perfectly normal machines. Abandoning their cars on the roads and destroying their own factories, many flee the citie ..."






The Poison Oracle
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Small Beer Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-065-7, ISBN: 1-61873-065-7

""I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre."--Sara Paretsky, author of "Breakdown" "Dickinson's crime novels are simply like no other; sophisticated, erudite, unexpected, intricate, English and deeply, wonderfully peculiar." --Christopher Fowler, author of "The Memory of Blood" Praise for "The Poison Oracle" "I have no idea if any of this talk and ac-tion is authe ..."






Fire(1st Edition)
Tales of Elemental Spirits
by Peter Dickinson, Robin Mckinley
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books For Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-25289-1, ISBN: 0-399-25289-4

"Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire. In McKinley?s ?First Flight,? a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her ?Hellhound? stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson introduces a young man who must defeat the ..."






The Blue Hawk(Updated)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2002 by Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-41546-0, ISBN: 0-330-41546-8

"The Blue Hawk."






Eva
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48384-1, ISBN: 0-330-48384-6

"Eva wakes...She has been in a coma for eight months after a horrifying accident. She hears her mother murmer, 'It's all right. You're going to be all right.' But there's something terrible in the voice...Eva has changed. From now on she must live life that no one has ever lived before. A life that will change the world. "An outstanding novel." - "Guardian". "Shatteringly moving, intellectually demanding, relentlessly readable." - "Junio ..."






AK
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48204-2, ISBN: 0-330-48204-1

"Paul Kagomi's most precious possession is his AK - his gun. He is a Warrior, a boy soldier, trained for a terrible war in the African bush. He doesn't remember his real parents. For him his father is Michael, who leads the guerrilla group, and his mother is the war. Peace comes - and Paul Buries his gun and goes to school. But it does not last. Soliders come to burn the school and kill the children, and Paul must flee through the bush t ..."






The Blue Hawk(1st Edition)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 217 Pages, Published 1977 by Ballantine Books/Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-25759-8, ISBN: 0-345-25759-6






The Seventh Raven
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2018 by Big Mouth House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-028-2, ISBN: 1-61873-028-2

"A Phoenix Award winner from the Children's Literature Association."This steady, sober hostage story is not quite a thriller . . . but anyone . . . can be engaged by the argument and enveloped in Dickinson's carefully textured citadel.""Kirkus Reviews"Praise for Peter Dickinson's children's books: "One of the real masters of children's literature."Philip Pullman"Peter Dickinson is a national treasure.""Guardian""Magnificent. Peter Dickin ..."






Giant Cold(Reprint)
by Peter Dickinson, Alan E. Cober
Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2016 by Open Road Media Teen & Tween
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-2516-4, ISBN: 1-5040-2516-4

"Can a child defeat a frozen giant and bring summer back to Apple Island? It’s the last night of a family’s holiday on a tropical island filled with black beaches, sweetfruit, and red-necked looby birds. Their final adventure is to climb the island’s tallest mountain before they leave in the morning. But when the child—who might be you—wakes up the next morning, the world has become a frozen wasteland and the father has been transformed ..."






Time and the Clock Mice, Etcetera
(Paperback Or Softback)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 2016 by Open Road Media Teen & Tween
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-2513-3, ISBN: 1-5040-2513-X

"Filled with unforgettable characters, including the Hickory, Dickory, and Dock mouse families and some eccentric humans, Time and the Clock Mice, Etcetera is a whimsical tale of mice, magic, cats, clocks, science, people, and the nature of ..."






The James Pibble Mysteries
Sleep and His Brother
by Peter Dickinson
240 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-0368-1, ISBN: 1-5040-0368-3

"meningitis and died, the only one they'd lost in Ivan's time at the McNair. It had happened ... “That you, Jim?” said the voice, more metallic than ever. “How many Jims do you know?” said Pibble. “Only one that's got this number, Jim. Alfred says  ..."



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