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Author
Series
Discworld volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory.
As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter. But that night took a turn when the sisters were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years in a forest straight out of myth and legend. When they finally returned to London, no time had passed and nothing had changed--nothing, except themselves. Now Evelyn is desperate to return to the Woodlands no matter...
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas official novelization. This deluxe retelling of the cult classic movie is the perfect gift for Nightmare fans and collectors, and it is also a great way to share this fun and magical story with your family every holiday season"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which...
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother, a noted scriptologist.
7) Fate's edge
Author
Series
Edge series (Ilona Andrews) volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Audrey Callahan left behind her life in the Edge, and she's determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But when her brother gets into hot water, the former thief takes on one last heist and finds herself matching wits with a jack of all trades...
Kaldar Mar-a gambler, lawyer, thief, and spy-expects his latest assignment tracking down a stolen item to be a piece of cake, until Audrey shows up. But when the item falls into the hands of a lethal
...8) Bitterblue
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a world on the brink of mass extinction, Ash the lowly scribe records the efforts of a young heir, a dangerous High Savant, a mysterious child-stealing Mar race and a secretive guide, who take respective roles in the fight for humanity’s survival.
10) Cursor's fury
Author
Series
Codex Alera volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the High Lord of Kalare enters into a dangerous alliance with the Canim, and treachery destroys the Aleran army's command structure, an inexperienced, young Tavi of Calderon leads a poorly equipped legion against the Canim horde.
11) Princeps' fury
Author
Series
Codex Alera volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera's oldest foes, the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their lands, his worst fears are realized.The dreaded Vord--the enemy of Aleran and Cane alike₇have spent the last three years laying waste to the Canim homeland."--Publisher's description.
12) Wintersong
Author
Series
Wintersong volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, dangerous Goblin King. Now eighteen and helping to run her family's inn, Liesl can't help but feel that her dreams and fantasies are slipping away. But when her sister is taken by the Goblin King, Liesl must journey to the Underground to save her. Drawn to the strange, captivating world she finds--and the mysterious man who rules it--she soon faces an impossible decision. And with time and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Following the shattering of the glass castle and the deaths of his men, Chaol pursues recovery by searching for healers in the southern continent while trying to convince Dorian and Aelin to ally with him and Nesryn in order to avoid war.
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Formats
Description
The uneasy peace that exists following the death of Robb Stark is threatened by new plots, intrigues, and alliances that once again will plunge the Seven Kingdoms back into all-out war for control of the Iron Throne
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Ray
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Terror engulfs the Four Land as the "Ildatch," the ancient book of evil spells, sends its Mord Wraiths to bring about the destruction of human life, and Allanon calls on the aid of Brin Ohmsford and the magic power of the wishsong she possesses.
17) Edgedancer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 2.5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older - a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire—to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only...
19) On the edge
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
Description
Rose Drayton, an Edger who can travel between the magical world of the Weird and the mundane reality of the Broken but belongs in neither, reluctantly teams up with a noble who wants to possess her to fight magic-hungry creatures.
20) The Sunlit Man
Author
Series
Secret projects volume 4
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.