P. Craig Russell
1) The Giver
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Jonas' life assignment is the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
The concluding volume of the graphic novel adaptation. A boy, raised by the inhabitants of the local graveyard rally to protect him from a league of villains named Jack who seek to destroy him.
3) Coraline
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
4) Coraline
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth. But there's another mother and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go....
5) The giver
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A fox, having assumed the form of a woman in order to lure a solitary monk from his temple, thus winning a bet with a badger, ends up falling in love with the young man; and when she overhears a group of demons who have been dispatched to kill the monk and steal his inner peace, the fox/woman begins her struggle to save him.
Author
Series
Ring of Nibelung volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of German composer Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle," telling the story of Voton, a god who promises his wife's sister to a pair of giants in exchange for their help in building a grand palace.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
One of Russell's best noted achievements, his adaptation of stories from Kipling's "Jungle Book" are at long last available in one beautiful full color trade paperback with flaps. Includes "The King's Ankus," "Red Dog" and "The Spring Running." Recommended by Parents' Choice '98.
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that his entire family has been murdered and he is now being raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
12) The giver
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Presents a graphic novelization of Lois Lowry's novel in which Jonas, a boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is receives special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman (American Gods), this fantasy story blends the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft and Roger Zelazny. This new edition of Only the End of the World Again features a brand new cover, in a new deluxe hardcover format; with bonus material including high res scans of the inks and layouts. The story features an adjustor, Lawrence Talbot...
15) Death
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The first story introduces the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life and (of course) death. In the second story, a rising star of the...
Author
Series
American gods volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent."--
17) Shadows
Author
Series
American gods volume 1
Pub. Date
February 2018.
Description
"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In this third volume, Gaiman and Russell once more team with a legendary collection of artists to bring more Norse myths to life, including a wild quest where Thor and Tyr face a multiheaded giantess, fire-breathing sea serpents, and more bizarre mythological creatures; the journey of Odin to the end of the world, and finally we reach the end of the world Ragnarok: the final destiny of the gods.
19) Endless nights
Author
Series
The Sandman volume Volume 11
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In the final Sandman tale, Morpheus makes the ultimate decision between change and death. As one journey for the Endless ends, another begins for the Lord of Dreams and his family, bringing with it a time of reflection and a sad celebration. It's a wake in which friends and loved ones, relatives and rivals, fleeting lovers and immortal enemies gather to pay their respsects and to mourn their loss."--
20) Norse mythology
Author
Pub. Date
2021-
Description
v. 1: "This volume collects issues #1 through #6 of the first arc of the Dark Horse comic-book series Norse Mythology."--Title page verso.
v. 2: "This volume collects issues #1 through #6 of the first arc of the Dark Horse comic-book series Norse Mythology II. "