Dragonriders of Pern
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1) Dragonflight
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world...
2) Dragonquest
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
On a small beleaguered planet patrolled by giant dragons, a tiny golden fire-lizard brings a searing threat greater than any Pern has ever met!
3) Dragonsong
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 3
Harper Hall trilogy volume 1
Harper Hall trilogy volume 01
Bantam book volume 10300-8
Harper Hall trilogy volume 1
Harper Hall trilogy volume 01
Bantam book volume 10300-8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
4) Dragonsinger
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 4
Harper Hall of Pern volume 02
Harper Hall trilogy volume 2
Harper Hall trilogy volume 02
Harper Hall of Pern volume 02
Harper Hall trilogy volume 2
Harper Hall trilogy volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Menolly flees her home because she is not permitted to make music there, and is taken by the Masterharper himself to Harper Hall, where she learns that only her own self-doubt stands in her way.
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 5
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English
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A splendid selection of stories from the lady who taught dragons to fly and rockets to sing . . .
Lady in the Tower
The Rowan was one of a select group of telepaths—a complete Prime, one of only five. Then one day, another Prime appeared mysteriously from the outer boundaries of space, asking for help in a savage battle against evil!
Finder's Keepers
Young Peter had a unique gift which earned him and his...
Lady in the Tower
The Rowan was one of a select group of telepaths—a complete Prime, one of only five. Then one day, another Prime appeared mysteriously from the outer boundaries of space, asking for help in a savage battle against evil!
Finder's Keepers
Young Peter had a unique gift which earned him and his...
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Tired of his boring life, Lord Jaxom decides to secretly train his extraordinary dragon to take part in the desperate battles of dragons and their riders against the Threadfall that periodically threatens their planet.
7) Dragondrums
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
All seems well on Pern until a mysterious ailment strikes, killing myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders. Pern is left in mortal danger with no one to rise to char the parasitic Thread.
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 9
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Ashamed of her father's refusal to help the others of Fort Hold, Nerilka helps Lord Alessan prepare a serum to combat a dreaded plague.
10) Dragonsdawn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
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In the beginning, before Thread, before the Dragons, before the Holds and the Weyrs and the elite Dragonriders of Pern, was just the great ships gliding through space with nearly six thousand colonists prepared to tackle the mighty task of beginning a new world on a strange planet.
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 11
Language
English
Description
A companion to Anne McCaffrey's dragon series
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Collection of short stories dealing with the early days of the colonization of Pern. Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
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After being saved from drowning by talking dolphins, a boy sets out to integrate them into the world of humans. The dolphins--genetically engineered--were part of the original colony on Pern, but humans lost touch with them, preferring dragons who could be used to fight wars. By the author of The Chronicles of Pern.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
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Description
Aramina is a teenage girl of Pern, who hears dragons -- a skill which does not solve any of her family's problems. Her mother fears losing her daughter to the life of a dragonrider. But Aramina exploits her rare abilities without deserting her beloved family.
17) Dragonseye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
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It's been two-hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries they have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the formidable Threadfighting techniques. Now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
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Description
A child prodigy turned Masterharper, Robinton must fight for his life when the citizens of Pern begin to doubt his and other Harpers' warnings of the coming of the dreaded Thread, and he uses his love of music, tlelpathic dragons, and his homeland to battle and evil tyrant preparing to take over the planet.
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Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Contains original short novels by eleven best-selling modern creators of fantasy fiction, each set in an imaginary universe made famous by the author in previous books. Includes works by Stephen King, Terry Goodkind, Ursula Le Guin, and Anne McCaffrey.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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With the planet of Pern no longer threatened by Threadfall, its inhabitants are free to build new lives for themselves with the help of recently discovered ancient technology, until a terrifying new peril from the sky endangers the planet.
22) Dragon's kin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great Holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization. Mining is fraught with danger. Fortunately, the camp has a watch-wher, a creature distantly related to dragons and uniquely suited to specialized work in the dark, cold mineshafts. Kindan's father is the...
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Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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An acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, including Terry Brooks, Diana Gabaldon, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, and Anne McCaffrey
Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special universe of the imagination that its author has made famous throughout the world. Whether...
Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special universe of the imagination that its author has made famous throughout the world. Whether...
24) Dragonsblood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Lorana, a young dragonrider with a gift for healing and telepathy, rushes to find a cure when a mysterious fatal illness infects the dragons just when a deadly cycle of Threadfall is due, and realizes the answer lies with Wind Blossom, a geneticist whose mother created the dragons hundreds of years earlier.
25) Dragon's fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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When a mine containing firestone, the mineral that gives the dragons of Pern their ability to breathe fire, explodes, killing the miners trapped there, young Cristov volunteers to take over the dangerous task of retrieving the explosive rock for the dragons.
26) Dragon Harper
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Apprentice dragon rider Kindan, along with Nonala and Kelsa, tries to stop the spread of a deadly contagion and win the approval Lord Bemin, the father of his true love, Koriana.
27) Dragonheart
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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The dragons of Pern are dying...and the only person who can save them has been dead for over 400 Turns. This fantasy is written by Anne McCaffrey's son, Todd, heir to the literary world of Pern.
28) Dragongirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Young Fiona, rider of the gold queen Talenth, has returned from the past, where she and a group of dragons and riders fled so that the wounded could heal from their previous battles with Thread and the younger dragons could safely grow to fighting age. Gone only three days, yet aged more than three years, Fiona is no longer a child but a woman prepared to fight against the Thread that threatens to destroy her world. Fiona's life takes a pivotal turn...
29) Dragon's time
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 29
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.
30) Sky dragons
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English
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Xhinna, the first female Weyrleader, and her group of young dragonriders struggle to rebuild the decimated dragon population and protect the world from a deadly alien spore by collecting dragon eggs and protecting baby dragons from predators and saboteurs.
31) Dragon's code
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 31
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English
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"The world of Pern has for centuries depended on its dragons and their riders to protect it from total annihilation. But when greed and resentment begin to simmer among the working people, and disagreements between dragonriders have already culminated in the exile of an entire clan, the growing tensions threaten to result in the most unthinkable act of all: dragon fighting dragon!"--