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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects ... Harry Potter himself?"--Page...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.
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Language
English
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Janice Shriek, a failed gallery owner and journalist, has ostensibly created an afterword to The Early History of Ambergris by her brother, Duncan Shriek, a talented if unconventional historian who finds his career in shambles after his controversial theories concerning Ambergris's founding and the genocide perpetrated against its nonhuman inhabitants gain public disfavor. Worse yet, he's caught in a love affair with one of his students, Mary Sabon....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A fantasy adventure saga set in the early days of Middle-Earth features humans and elves, dwarves and dragons, orcs and dark sorcerers clashing in an epic battle between good and evil.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The standard hardcover edition of the second volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map. Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force....
9) Iron flame
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Series
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English
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
10) A wizard alone
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 6
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Nita mourns her mother's death, teenage wizard Kit and his dog Ponch set out to find a young autistic boy who vanished in the middle of his Ordeal, pursued by the Lone Power.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Englishman's two voyages carry him to Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, and Brobdingnag, a land of giants. Includes a brief biography of the author and a discussion of Gulliver's Travels as a satire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
This Forgotten Realms(Omnibus recounts the fellowship of two humans, a dwarf, and a halfling with Drizzt Do'Urden, a renegade drow with a mysterious past. Their strange and stalwart friendship grows as they struggle to defeat powerful enemies and destroy the terrible Crystal Shard. Time and again they come to one another's aid as they fight for their rightful place in the dangerous world of Faerun.
13) Siege and storm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.
Author
Series
Engineer trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When an engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of Guild law, he flees the city, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Forced into exile, he seeks a terrible vengeance---one that will leave a trail of death and destruction in its wake. But he will not be able to achieve this by himself. He must draw up his plans using the blood of others.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
2002, ©1999
Language
English
Description
The tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of Faerun. This collector's edition includes all five novels with a new introduction by the author.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The little hobbit and his trusty companion make a terrible journey to the heart of the land of the Shadow in a final reckoning with the power of Sauron. Tells of the opposing strategies of the wizard Gandalf and the evil Sauron as Frodo amd Sam struggle to end the great darkness with the Ring of Power.
17) Gifts
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
18) 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
Language
English
Formats
Description
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin.
...20) The ancient
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Bransen Garibond is tricked into a desperate war against the brutal Samhaist, Ancient Badden.
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