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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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With a boom and a burst of fireworks, Mary Poppins returns, falling from the sky like a shooting star. She arrives not a moment too late: The Banks home is a complete shambles--five wild children without a nanny are five children too many!
42) Gifts
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Description
For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that rained from the sky to ravage the land. Now, for the first time, their dream to eradicate Thread could possibly come true as they uncovered the ancient colonist's voice-activated artificial intelligence system which still functioned and instructed them on how to annihilate Thread.
44) Bright shadow
Author
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In one day, Morwenna has gone from being the lowliest servant in the king's castle to the mos powerful person in the land, for she has become the wizard, the bearer of the last five wishes in the kingdom. But with her new gifr come rules: She cannot wish for any mor, she cannot wish for anything for herself, and if she speaks of them to anyone, both she and the wishes will be gone.
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Series
Magic Kingdom of Landover volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Ben is trapped into returning to the Magic Kingdom by the wizard Meeks. There the wizard casts a spell on Ben to switch appearances with him. Ben becomes an outcast no longer recognized by any friend though all his enemies can still recognize him.
48) Fool moon
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke. His vast knowledge and magical skills are unfortunately matched by his talent for making powerful enemies and alienating friends. With little more than his integrity left, he accepts an offer of work from Lt. Karin Murphy of Chicago's Special Investigations Unit. He wants to redeem himself in Murphy's eyes and make enough money to quiet his rumbling...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 22
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Something is seriously amiss at Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning."--BOOK JACKET. "A professor is missing - and not just any professor. The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography. Also the University Librarian, who transmuted (you know how things change!) into an ape (a handy configuration for a librarian, don't you think?) so long ago that no one exactly remembers his name,...
50) Prentice Alvin
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Book 3 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.
From the 18th century into the early years of the 19th, Americans- traveling to find new homes and new lands- crossed the Appalachian Mountains and moved across the Northwest Territory, spreading west to the banks of the great river. But in this alternate frontier America, the men and women use lore and folk-magic to settle the continent. When Alvin arrives in Hatrack River to take up his...
51) Seventh son
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, slowly learns his power as a Maker as the forces of chaos try to stop him in a magical world much like the American frontier at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Series
Lost years of Merlin volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Merlin's fragile home on the isle of Fincayra is threatened by the attack of a mysterious warrior with swords for arms and by the escape of Stangmar from his imprisonment, as Merlin continues to move toward his ultimate destiny.
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Series
Lord of the rings volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Description
"The standard harcover edition of the concluding volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map and extensive appendices. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg....
54) New Spring
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
Moiraine Damodred witnesses the Foretelling of the rebirth of the Dragon and knows she must find him before the Dark One does. During her travels, she crosses paths with Lan Mandragoran, whose life is at risk because of his claim to the Malkieri throne.
A prequel to The Wheel of Time series.
Author
Series
Farseer trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
A bastard prince relegated to cleaning stables is chosen by a king to become an assassin. The novel follows the training and missions of this man who has inherited magical skills, among them mind-control and the ability to communicate with animals.
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Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
A mass-market paperback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge-not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal...
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Magic Kingdom of Landover volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Description
After Ben Holiday purchased Landover, he discovered the magic kingdom has some problems. The Barons refused to recognize a king and the peasants were without hope. To make matters worse, Ben learned he had to duel to the death with the Iron Mask, the terrible lord of the demons, a duel which no human could hope to win.
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Series
Wheel of time volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 37
Formats
Description
The eighth installment in The Wheel of Time series follows familiar characters as they fight the forever invading Seanchan and continue to try and make peace and love amongst themselves
59) The Bellmaker
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Series
Redwall volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Worried about his daughter Mariel, Joseph the Bellmaker is led by a dream from Redwall Abbey to Southsward, where he is caught up in the battle between Squirrelking Gael and the vicious Foxwolf Nagru.
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Series
Lord of the rings volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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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....