Kate Thompson
1) Switchers
Author
Series
Switchers trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library. Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café, and a theater-offering shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city. Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant Ruby...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
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Description
Jack is about to discover how to make gold—but the secret art will come at a price
The year is 1720, and Jack, a London blacksmith’s apprentice, is fleeing the punishment of his master. Now a runaway, Jack’s wanderings take him to the Thames River, where he plucks a curious little pot out of the water. Hoping that his find will prove valuable, Jack discovers that it belongs to a practitioner of the forbidden art of alchemy....
The year is 1720, and Jack, a London blacksmith’s apprentice, is fleeing the punishment of his master. Now a runaway, Jack’s wanderings take him to the Thames River, where he plucks a curious little pot out of the water. Hoping that his find will prove valuable, Jack discovers that it belongs to a practitioner of the forbidden art of alchemy....
Author
Series
New Policeman volume Bk. 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When eleven-year-old Jenny Liddy, in turmoil over learning that she is a changeling, makes a deal with a devil creature, she endangers the human race but her own cleverness, her human and fairy fathers, and the last of Ireland's high kings help to make things right.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
On a cold day in eighteenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In the late twenty-first century, dramatic climate change has made life in Ireland almost impossible, and soon Tir na n'Og is faced with a refugee problem, partly because of a warlord who is a member of the Liddy family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.
Author
Series
The New Policeman volume Bk. 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves the family to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.
9) Most wanted
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In first century Rome, in the turmoil after a rumor circulates that mad Emperor "Littleboots" is dead, young Marcus brings home a horse that the emperor had proclaimed a consul and his family decides they must treat it as an honored guest.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island. Grace La Motťe, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful...