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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Eldest of three sisters, in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared Wizard Howl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world...
4) Storm front
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things -- and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes inches Takes a wizard to catch a -- well, whatever.
5) Iron flame
Author
Series
Empyrean volume Bk. 2
Language
English
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Description
"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....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Bree, a talking horse, and Shasta, a young boy, are joined by four English children and Aslan to help save Narnia from invasion. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a battle that will decide their fate and the fate of Narnia itself.
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations--The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with...
Author
Series
Legends and lattes volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk--so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing...
11) The great hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.
12) The two towers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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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....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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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 grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket-watch, joins a mad 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: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Lucy and Edmond, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the magic land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
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Series
Fablehaven volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After defeating one enemy and unveiling a traitor, Kendra and Seth plunge into the international world of magic. As Kendra travels to another refuge to locate an artifact of incredible strength, Seth faces another attack at Fablehaven. The creatures there are turning, not falling into evil like the fairies previously but actually turning into shadow-- evolving into powerful and more threatening forms never seen before. Even those creatures known to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Taking place mere hours following the events seen in The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three continues with Roland of Gilead on his solitary quest for the Dark Tower, leading him to a seemingly endless stretch of beach along the Western Sea -- a terrain filled with unearthly monstrosities that mean certain death if he lets his guard down. But there are other mysteries along this desolate shoreline as well: three arcane doorways standing freely in...
17) Briar's book
Author
Series
Circle of magic volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Briar, a young mage-in-training, and his teacher Rosethorn must use their magic to fight a deadly plague that is ravaging Summersea.
18) Moon called
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds. In The Golden Compass, readers meet for the first time 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is...