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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
During the Third Age, the Age of Prophecy, the world and time hang in the balance, in peril of falling under the Shadow.
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.
4) Iron flame
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 2
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
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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
Wheel of time volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Rand, a farm boy, is thought to be the prophesied leader who will save his people.
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 7
Language
English
Description
The battle against magical terror continues as Elayne, Aviendha, and Mat work to return the world's natural weather, Egwene gathers a group of women channelers, and Rand faces the Forsaken Sammael.
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
The leader who will save the world, but in the process destroy it, is on the run from his prophesied destiny.
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Description
Rand Al'thor, the Dragon Reborn, faces a threat to his throne; Perrin Goldeneyes, Lord of the Two Rivers, prepares to march; and Morgase of Caemlyn finds an unwelcome ally.
9) Stellarlune
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her friends divided and scattered, and the Black Swan wanting her to focus on their projects, Sophie is led in a different direction to Stellarlune, which might be their salvation or destruction, and learns the true meaning of power--and evil."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Description
When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights...
11) Assassin's quest
Author
Series
Farseer trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Fitz, a highly trained assassin, is believed by his enemies to be dead, but his tutor brings him back to life and he begins a journey to seek vengeance against a powerful rival.
Author
Series
Hourglass door trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abby travels back in time to attempt to save Dante and defeat the wicked designs of Zo.
13) And I darken
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In this first book in a trilogy a girl child is born to Vlad Dracula, in Transylvania, in 1435--at first rejected by her father and always ignored by her mother, she will grow up to be Lada Dragwlya, a vicious and brutal princess, destined to rule and destroy her enemies.
14) Under the dome
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
15) Gone
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
16) The Rithmatist
Author
Series
Rithmatist volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Description
The tenth book in the Wheel of Time saga finds the power of the Shadow growing stronger while Mat Cauthon tries to decide what to do with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, Perrin continues his quest to free his captive wife, Egwene al'Vere lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, Elayne fights for the Lion Throne, and Rand tries to tell his allies from his enemies.
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 8
Language
English
Description
After Nynaeve and his friends conquer the Seanchan forces they travel to Caemyln to reclaim the throne, but on their way they encounter enemies more powerful than they imagined, and they may have to sacrifice their lives to save the world.
19) The heart forger
Author
Series
Bone witch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Armed with the ability to tame and control the monstrous daeva, Tea enacts her revenge against the royals who wronged her, but she is hampered by her disapproving brother and pursued by enemies wishing to use her dark magic for themselves.
20) Sophie's choice
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Language
English
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This award-winning novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World).
Winner of the National Book Award and a modern classic, Sophie’s Choice centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor;...
Winner of the National Book Award and a modern classic, Sophie’s Choice centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor;...
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