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Author
Publisher
Cartoon Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Is a community in which the emphasis is on diversity and tolerance, and in that sense it can be read as a political statement and a feminist treatment of a genre that's for the most part concerned with heroes and villains wielding swords and sorcery.
2) Soccer Hero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Rob lasher is just and ordinary soccer player, good at the game, but not great. Then one agternoon, he saves his coach's life in front of all his teammates. Suddenly, he's the team's hero, as some members of his team and the rest of the town continue to laud Rob;s heroic act, Rob realizes he doesn't want the attention and any unearned accolades that come with it. Kids will learn that doing what is right should be the norm, not the exception.
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century.Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King's most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science...
Author
Series
Strange the dreamer volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a hero, a librarian, and a girl must battle the fantastical elements of a mysterious city stripped of its name.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will is forced to overcome his fear of Wargals, the foot soldiers of rebel warlord Morgarath, as Araluen's army prepares to battle Morgarath's forces.
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A snotty situation ensues when Melvin Sneedley, an academically-gifted student, turns into the Bionic Booger Boy and must be stopped by George, Harold, and Captain Underpants. By flipping the pages, the reader may view animated illustrations.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Chasing the Skandian slave-traders who kidnapped Will and Evanlyn, Ranger Halt and warrior student Horace find themselves in the frozen northern islands, where they battle a ruthless black-clad knight as they attempt to rescue their friends.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a full-fledged Ranger responsible for a sleepy fief, Will finds a new adventure seeking the traitors who poisoned the king, investigating rumors of sorcery, and trying to rescue his friend Alyss, who is taken hostage.
10) How to be a hero
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gideon is a little boy who wants to be a hero and get his picture in the paper--but first he has to figure out just what a hero is.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
James, an earl's son and bothersome child, may hold the key to saving Cranford Abbey, a dilapidated school where he is sent to be educated, that newly-appointed Abbot Aelian thinks can be saved if he can make cider from the golden apples now being eaten by ravenous unicorns.
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the beginning, the fight was coming. Vega Jane fought her way out of the village where she was born, crossed a wilderness filled with vicious creatures, and raised a ragtag army behind her. But each triumph earned through grit and pain only brought her closer to him—Necro. A sorcerer whose unspeakable evil is matched only by his magical power. Vega and Necro are on a collision course. The clash between his awesome power and her iron will is...
13) Circe: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her...
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she arrives in a small village in the Two Rivers, Moiraine discovers three young men, each of whom might be the long-awaited and reviled Chosen One, the Dragon Reborn. But she is not the only stranger new to the village, nor the only one searching. In a race against time and the agents of the Shadow, she must guide her charges through lands of myth and legend, toward allies both new and old, and into the footsteps of prophecy.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
16) Wizard and Glass
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Language
English
Description
A 700-page fantasy featuring Roland-the-Gunslinger, an adventurer who is seeking the source of life. Fourth in the Dark Tower series, the novel flashes back to the heroic deeds of his youth and his romance with Susan, his great love.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history--or religion.Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 4
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Professor Pippy P. Poopypants comes to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School to teach science, and he goes off the deep end because students make fun of his name, only Captain Underpants can save the school from the professor's perilous plot.