Almond, David

The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.

Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town.

In a series of interconnected stories, a boy describes his life growing up in the English urban district of Felling.

Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.

After Stanley Potts's uncle Ernie's mad obsession with canning fish turns dangerous, Stan is force to make it out on his own. He finds new friends in a carnival full of eccentric characters and meets the legendary Pancho Pirelli, the man who swims in a tank full of perilous piranhas.

Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.

Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.

Following the death of his father, Blue Baker starts to get picked on by the town bully and so begins writing a story about a savage child who lives in the woods. When the "savage" pays a visit to the bully, however, Blue starts to wonder if there is any real difference between himself and the savage.

All his life Billy Dean has known only the world of his bedroom and the sights, sounds, and scents of his father and mother. One day his father disappears, and his mother is allowed to finally show Billy the wider world outside--a broken world, which he has been brought up to save. He is the Angel Child, they tell him, and he must fix every mysterious thing that went wrong on the day of his birth.