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1) Good omens
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Language
English
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The world is preparing to come to an end according to the Divine Plan recorded in the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded 1655). Meanwhile, a fussy angel and a fast-living demon have grown fond of living among the earth's mortals for many millennia and are not looking forward to the apocalypse. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they must find and kill the Antichrist.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
Author
Series
How to train your dragon volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III must go to great lengths to find a potato, the only thing that will cure his friend Fishlegs of the deadly disease Vorpentitis.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As the longtime local carpool mom, Frances Bloom is sometimes an unwilling witness to her neighbors' private lives. She knows her cousin is hiding her desire for another baby from her spouse, Bill Horton's wife is mysteriously missing, and now this... After the shock of seeing Anne Porter in all her extramarital glory, Frances vows to stay in her own lane. But that's a notion easier said than done when Anne's husband throws her out a couple of days...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. What does bother him is that he has lost the memory of what happened the first night after he moved into his spare, efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up a day later in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His...
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Language
English
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As the host of Radio Free Vermont -- "underground, underpowered, and underfoot" -- seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm + 1 poster.
Language
English
Description
A second collection of full-color Sunday Big Nate cartoons finds the intrepid grade schooler struggling with everything from his annoying older sister and his clueless dad to his nightmarish teacher and his superior-minded exchange student classmate, Artur.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1987], c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work....
Author
Series
How to train your dragon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
When Hiccup finds a coffin at sea, he opens it to discover a riddle that will lead to the treasure of Grimbeard the Ghastly, the world's greatest pirate and Hiccup's ancestor. Setting out on a treasure hunt, Hiccup and his friends must master the art of swordfighting! How else will they escape an island of homicidal dragons, defeat a boatload of Viking pirates, and survive a dirty double cross?
Author
Series
Discworld volume 13
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
20038, c1992
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brutha is the Chosen One. His god has spoken to him, admittedly while currently in the shape of a tortoise. Brutha is a simple lad. He can't read. He can't write. He's pretty good at growing melons. And his wants are few. He wants to overthrow a huge and corrupt church. He wants to prevent a horrible holy war. He wants to stop the persecution of a philosopher who has dared to suggest that, contrary to the Church's dogma, the Discworld really does...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Nina Hill's life may not seem like much, but for a person battling anxiety, it's more than enough. She enjoys her job at a bookstore and her small circle of friends. Until a visit from a lawyer changes everything...The father that Nina never knew existed has died, leaving behind an enormous extended family. Nina now has innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, and cousins all living within a twenty-mile radius--some welcoming and some not...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 27
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
174 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization. But these days, he can't always remember just where he put his teeth... So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest....
13) The grim grotto
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
The Baudelaire orphans take to the sea where more "unfortunate" events befall them.
14) The Radleys
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
x, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. Many of us grew up next door to one. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely dysfunctional, living in a staid and quiet suburban English town. Peter is an overworked doctor whose wife, Helen, has become increasingly remote and uncommunicative. Rowan, their teenage son, is being bullied at school, and their anemic daughter, Clara, has recently become a vegan. They are typical, that...
15) Cat problems
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A pampered house cat complains about the daily struggles he faces"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stuck in a bus full of strangers, mother-and-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into something they never expected in this hilarious and insightful new novel from the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. Jessica and Emily have very different ideas of how this college tour should go. For Emily, it's a last-ditch effort to get excited about her future, because every day in the present...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof....
Author
Series
Discworld volume 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Discworld volume 9
Publisher
Millennium/Victor Gollancz
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
155 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad ... at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes: to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe. But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 25
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2008, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discworld's first newspaper editor just wants to get at the truth but unfortunately, like other editors before and after him, many people want him dead for a variety of reasons.
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