Dark Tower
Author
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In a strange, desolate world that has inexplicably "moved on," Roland of Gilead is the last gunslinger--replete with dusty Old West garb and a duo of six shooters. Roland hunts the elusive man in black, the mysterious wizard who holds the key to the secrets of the Dark Tower. If he catches him before it's too late, Roland is sure he will discover why the world changed.
The first fantasy in a projected series of novels called the Dark Tower, which...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Taking place mere hours following the events seen in The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three continues with Roland of Gilead on his solitary quest for the Dark Tower, leading him to a seemingly endless stretch of beach along the Western Sea -- a terrain filled with unearthly monstrosities that mean certain death if he lets his guard down. But there are other mysteries along this desolate shoreline as well: three arcane doorways standing freely in...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland's two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who--in Roland's world--has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono's final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Stephen King The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
The final book in the Dark Tower cycle. Thus continues Roland the Gunslinger and his relentless quest to reach The Tower in a last ditch effort to save all that is. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole.' The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...