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1) Lightlark
Author
Series
Lightlark volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatensto undo everything.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Lyra pays a painful price to walk through the land of the dead, while the battle for the Kingdom of Heaven rages on and ultimately unlocks the secret of Dust.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived...
Author
Series
Queen of the Tearling volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of immense...
Author
Series
Crescent City volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion--otherwise known as Crescent City--has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city--and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful...
7) Storm front
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.
Author
Series
Defy the night volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The kingdom of Kandala is recovering from a devastating plague but the cure is rare and expensive, so a girl hatches a plan to infiltrate the castle and bring the corrupt system crashing down.
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College, Lyra hears rumors of a magical dust that supposedly possesses powers that can unite whole universes, and begins a difficult and dangerous journey to find it.
Author
Series
Earthsea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
Author
Series
Queen of the Tearling volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
After Queen Kelsea Glynn stops slaves from being shipped to Mortmesne, the Red Queen sends her ferocious army, backed with dark magic, into Tearling.
13) Cloud atlas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
14) Eldest
Author
Series
Inheritance volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider. It is the journey of a lifetime, each day a fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and Eragon isn't sure whom he can trust. Meanwhile, his...
15) Oathbringer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 69
Language
English
Description
"Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of...
16) Grave peril
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After Chicago's ghost population starts going seriously postal, resident wizard Harry Dresden much figure out who is stirring them up and why they all seem to be somehow connected to him.
17) New spring
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
War rages around the city of Tar Valon as the prophesy of a child who will change the world sends Moiraine Damodred and Lan Mandragoran on a race against time to find the child before the forces of the Shadow can destroy him.
Author
Series
Kingkiller chronicle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much more, for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's...
19) Unravel the dusk
Author
Series
Blood of stars volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Maia Tamarin’s journey to sew the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars has taken a grievous toll. She returns to a kingdom on the brink of war. Edan, the boy she loves, is gone—perhaps forever—and no sooner does she set foot in the Autumn Palace than she is forced to don the dress of the sun and assume the place of the emperor’s bride-to-be to keep the peace. When the emperor’s rivals learn of her deception, there is hell to pay,...
20) Rhythm of war
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Description
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation....
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