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Author
Series
Publisher
Lucas Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
169 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent to the Galactic Games, they discover an illegal event which Anakin is familiar with - podracing.
Language
English
Description
It opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident, were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
84) The rising force
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi, unable to be taken on as a Padawan apprentice because of his uncontrolled anger, is about to have his first encounter with true evil and must face off against unexpected enemies.
Author
Series
Lotus Kingdoms volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from a the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort. -- amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...
89) After death
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print.
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Lazarus is humanity's last hope in a breathtaking novel about the absolute powers of good and evil by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability...
90) Spider-Man 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (127 min.) : sd., col.
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. Relationships with all those he holds dear are unraveling, and he encounters a new foe, Doc Ock. Peter must use all his powers to stop this diabolical madman.
"...Quite possibly the best superhero movie ever made."--Jam! Movies.
"Best comic book movie...ever."--Los Angeles Daily News.
"Every bit as good - if not better - than the original."--CNN.
92) The hunger games
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...
94) A trick of light
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Stan Lee, the pop culture legend behind Marvel's The Avengers, Black Panther, X-Men, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, and Iron Man, comes a major literary event featuring two heroic teenagers-one born with extraordinary gifts, one unwillingly transformed. Together they can change the world...or put it in the destructive hands of a danger beyond imagination"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
136 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his father buys a SIMON Robot, advertised as "the perfect son," Chip decides that he can't compete with his new brother, but in the end, the whole family learns that perfection may not be so great after all.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. Returning to Araluen, Gilan is given a new mission by King Duncan: protect his daughter's life. Princess Cassandra has survived one attempt on her life already, and now whispers of a second attempt have reached the kingdom. A deadly sect known as the Scorpion Cult is thought to be behind the assassination threat.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around...