Geraldine McCaughrean
Geradline McCaugrean worked as a secretary, teacher, journalist and sub-editor before becoming a full time author. She has written about 160 books, mostly for children but also books for adults and short plays.
Books
Casting the Gods Adrift
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Galaxy
Interest age: 8+
Reading age: 8-12
This is a journey back in time to the era of the ancient Egyptians, when religion and ritual were central to people's lives.
Not the End of the World
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 11+
Timna, 14-year-old daughter of Noah, tells what really happened to her family during the endless days and nights in the Ark, while the world all around them turned to water.
Pull Out all the Stops!
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 9-13
Reading age: 10+
After a freak accident and an outbreak of diphtheria, Cissy Sissney and her friends are sent out of town for safety, but end up drifting on a rusting steamboat in the Missouri river...
Stop the Train
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 10+
This novel is set in 1890s Oklahoma. Cissy's family buys a plot of land in Florence, hoping to build a new life there.
Tamburlaine's Elephants
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Usborne
Interest age: 10-11
Reading age: 10+
Rusti, a young nomad, lives on the fringes of the warrior horde of Tamburlaine the Great, a powerful ruler whose brutality is legendary.
The Death Defying Pepper Roux
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 11+
For all of his short life, Pepper Roux has been waiting to die. Now, on his fourteenth birthday, he knows he won't have to wait much longer.
The Kite Rider
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 11+
Haoyou feels powerless when the man responsible for his father's death demands to marry his mother. Determined to support her himself, the young boy joins a travelling circus.
The Middle of Nowhere
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Usborne
Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 12+
Life in the Australian outback is hard enough, but when a deadly snake in the laundry basket kills her mother, Comity Pinny finds herself in a whole new type of wilderness.
The Orchard Book of Love and Friendship
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean Illustrator: Jane Ray
Publisher: Hachette
Interest age: 7+
Reading age: 9+
Geraldine McCaughrean and illustrator Jane Ray team up to produce this beautifully crafted collection of folk tales centred around the themes of love and friendship.
The Positively Last Performance
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 11+
Reading age: 11+
Gracie’s parents arrive in the seaside town of Seashaw with a plan to restore its run-down Royal Theatre – but it is there that Gracie meets the ghosts.