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1) Dragondrums
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
Author
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Althought she has made peace with her Linyaari heritage, Acorna knows that only by returning to the frozen stillness of space will she ever truly feel at home. But the solitude she desires must wait. Answering a faint distress signal leads Acorna to a strange, perfumed world where plants are sentient and think. There she finds a burned-out ship with all the signs of a Khleevi attack. It's been suspected that these enemy aliens have been planning a...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientist--ship's cat? All are essential to a well-staffed space vessel. Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members who travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin and for acting as morale officers. But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and...
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A stunning pictorial fiction that continues the fantastic adventures of Acorna, the Unicorn Girl. After rescuing hundreds of sick children from slave labor on the planet Kezdet, Acorna receives a message that some children have been left behind--and if she wants to save them, this time she must come in secret ... and alone.
9) Dragon's kin
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
10) On dragonwings
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Dragonsdawn -- Deadly spores threaten the human colony of Pern unless the colonists, with help from geneticist Kitti Ping, can develop fire-breathing dragons to combat the menace.
Dragonseye -- On the planet Pern, two farseeing dragon riders train their troops--mounted on genetically engineered dragons--for the battle with the Thread, an evil force. Portents of all sorts, including violent storms and erupting volcanos, point to the Thread's coming,...
Author
Publisher
SFBC
Pub. Date
2006, 1988.
Language
English
Description
"This omnibus edition collects the novel Dragonsdawn, the story of how men and women first came to Pern and how they created the magnificent telepathic dragons to fight the alien Thread, and The Chronicle of Pern : the first Fall, a collection of four novellas and one short story that adds richness and depth to the earliest days of the Dragon World."
12) Power play
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A feeling planet organizes its defenses against uncaring humans. The planet, which can even speak, is home to some ecologically minded people, but its riches are attracting hordes of outsiders with no feeling for nature. Planet and residents join forces.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Finally together in one volume, the first three books in the world's most beloved science fiction series, The Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey, one of the great science fiction writers of all time: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon. Those who know these extraordinary tales will be able to re-visit with Lessa, F'lar, Ruth, Lord Jaxon, and all the others. And for those just discovering this magical place, there are incomparable tales...
Author
Series
Barque cats volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
The barque cats, mistaken for a public health hazard, flee Earth for the feline-dominated planet, Mau, with the help of Pshaw-Ra, a mysterious cat with his own spaceship. Oddly, no one--including the humans--is bothered that he plans to take over the universe on behalf of felinekind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Collection of short stories dealing with the early days of the colonization of Pern. Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
After being saved from drowning by talking dolphins, a boy sets out to integrate them into the world of humans. The dolphins--genetically engineered--were part of the original colony on Pern, but humans lost touch with them, preferring dragons who could be used to fight wars. By the author of The Chronicles of Pern.
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