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1) Equal rites
Author
Series
Discworld volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eight son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world....
Author
Series
Discworld volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
William de Worde begins the first newspaper on Discworld and discovers investigative journalism.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the...
5) Thud!
Author
Series
Discworld volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
A seemingly routine day in the life of City Watch commander Sam Vimes is abruptly interrupted by an unsolved murder, an impending war, an unwanted new recruit, and a pesky government inspector. By the author of Going Postal. It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win. It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium. It's the unsettling sound of history...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Twoflower 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 on its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof....
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
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