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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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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

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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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 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 ..."

The Lion Tamer's Daughter(Updated)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1999 by Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37164-3, ISBN: 0-330-37164-9

"Keith has moved, leaving his best friend Melly behind. Then he meets Melanie. She and Melly are so alike they could be the same girl. But they're also entirely different. They are in fact mirror images - can Keith find the truth?"

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

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 ..."

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 ..."

Angel Isle
(Paperback)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2007 by Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43552-9, ISBN: 0-330-43552-3

". . In Angel Isle, Peter Dickinson takes readers on another spellbinding adventure, further into the enthralling fantasy world first encountered in his Carnegie Medal shortlisted novel, The Ropemaker."

The Tears of the Salamander
(Hardback)
by Peter Dickinson
Hardcover, Published 2003 by Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4050-2051-0, ISBN: 1-4050-2051-2

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 ..."

Marigold
The Music of Billy Mayerl
by Peter Dickinson
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816213-1, ISBN: 0-19-816213-8

"Billy Mayerl, as pianist-composer-celebrity-educator, was a unique figure in British music from the 1920s to the 1950s. While known to several generations as the composer of Marigold, Mayerl's accomplishments were amazingly varied. One of the most significant contributors to the genre of novelty piano, which succeeded ragtime and overlapped with early jazz, he also wrote more contemplative pieces belonging to the English pastoral tradi ..."

Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance
New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 8
by Peter Dickinson, Ce Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, Dalbir Singh
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-77091-913-6, ISBN: 1-77091-913-9

"This collection seeks to understand why it is important not just to continue to tell queer stories on stage, but also to piece together the larger historical narrative of Canadian queer theatrical production and reception through academic research. Contributors include Kym Bird, Sky Gilbert, Moynan King, Evalyn Parry, Richie Wilcox, Jay Whitehead, Tony Berto, Eury Chang, Cameron Crookston, Spy Dénommé-Welch, Dirk Gindt, Stephen Low, Sea ..."