Paul Stewart
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 9
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
3) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 4
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.
6) Freeglader
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 6
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 8
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.
9) Muddle Earth
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Where would you find three moons, a floating lake, and a perfumed bog filled with pink stinky hogs and exploding gas frogs? A place that's home to a wizard with only one spell, an ogre who cries a lit, and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth. A place where anything can happen - and usually does.
Author
Series
Publisher
D. Fickling Books/Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Weird and evil events at a London boarding school provide messenger Barnaby Grimes an opportunity to test his budding knowledge of the ancient Chinese art of yinchido, in which one focuses on silences and empty spaces.
12) Kiss me deadly
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs. The men torture the girl to death as the semiconscious Hammer watches helplessly. He himself escapes extermination when the murderers' car topples off a cliff and he is...