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61) Gifts
Author
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.
62) Dancing bears
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Early this century a Russian landowner invites an American colleague to hunt bear on his estate. For John Sherwood, it's the start of an incredible adventure as the bears turn out to be shape-shifting men. One of them is the landowner's brother, Maxim, and he mauls Sherwood, who subsequently becomes a shape-shifting bear himself and falls in love with Natalya, the landowner's sister. Political interest is added by Maxim being a state policeman and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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!
64) Innocence
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Description
Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where strangers would kill him on sight, Addison endures a solitary existence before meeting a quicksilver girl engaged in a dangerous duel of wits with a malicious, well-placed enemy.
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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.
66) 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...
67) Winnie-the-Pooh
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Appears on list
Description
Christopher Robin had a friend named Edward Bear. One day Edward Bear said he would like an exciting name all to himself. Without stopping to think about it, Christopher Robin said that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. To follow are stories of wonderful times with characters who live in the same woods.
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,...
69) Ella enchanted
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
71) 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...
72) 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
Wheel of time volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 37
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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
74) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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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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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
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
Lord of the rings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
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Description
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.