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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked... but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all -- the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness...But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jace Damon, a bicycle messenger in Los Angeles working to support his little brother, does not know which way to turn when he is sent by low-class attorney Lenny Lowell to deliver a package and discovers the drop is an empty lot where someone is waiting to kill him--but when he goes to confront Lenny, he finds the lawyer murdered and himself the main suspect.
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After obtaining an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember seeking the machine described in the book that might be able to aid their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Karigan G'Ladheon was a green Rider, one of the King of Sacoridia's magical messengers. With evil forces at large in the kingdom and the messenger service depleted and weakened, can Karigan reach through the veils of time to get help from the First Rider, a woman who has been dead for a thousand years?
5) Green rider
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A fantasy in which, after being expelled from school, spoilt Karigan G'ladheon meets a rider dying from an arrow wound who gives her a magic brooch and a message for his king. So begins a life of adventure which transforms Karigan into an exemplary heroine. A first novel.
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Language
English
Description
The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war's horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonism--drugs, sex, and endless parties--distracts from the strange realities of everyday life: intelligent automata taking jobs; genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war; a theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day; and a new plague that even...
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Series
Language
English
Description
It was a duty to a dead man. Matt Jensen had promised his friend, slain by an outlaw named Pogue Willis, that he would deliver money to his brother in St. Louis. But Matt's search leads him from St. Louis to Arizona Territory, and into the company of a rich Easterner and his beautiful young wife. For Matt, the schemes of some citifed land prospectors don't mean much, until the young woman is seized by renegade Apaches and it's up to Matt to save her...
8) Premium rush
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
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Series
Language
English
Description
More than a thousand years ago, the armies of the Arcosian Empire, led by sorcerer Mornhavon the Black, crossed the great sea and tried to conquer the land of Sacoridia using terrible dark magic. Eventually, Mornhavon was captured, and his evil spirit imprisoned in Blackveil Forest. Since that day, the perimeter of Blackveil-now a dark and twisted land-has been protected by the magical D'Yer Wall. But in the centuries since the war's end, knowledge...
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 14
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Iris is the most colorful goddess girl at Mount Olympus Academy. In fact, her hair and delicate wings can change color according to her mood! When Principal Zeus entrusts her with the job of fetching some magic water, Iris is tickled pink--until she realizes she'll have to get the water from the gray, gloomy River Styx in the Underworld! And when Iris figures out how to create magical rainbow slides that will allow her to travel from Mount Olympus...
11) Blackveil
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Series
Language
English
Description
Legendary Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon--one of the magical messengers of the king--defends her king and fellow riders from an insurrection led by dark magicians that threatens to break the boundaries of ancient, evil Blackveil Forest--releasing powerful dark magics that have been shut away for a millennium.
13) Mirror sight
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon is jolted out of Blackveil Forest while confronting a rebel sect descended from Arcosian invaders and awakens in a black, sealed sarcophagus from which she must use magic to escape.
14) Until it's over
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Language
English
Description
Steamy and suspenseful stand-alone thriller about a group of housemates who must determine the killer among them when a series of murders occur. For Astrid and her six housemates, it's the beginning of a nightmare: suspicious glances, bitter accusations, and a growing fear that the worst is yet to come. As the difference between friend and stranger grows harder to judge, the line between attraction and danger thins. The housemates-unsure if there's...
15) Firebrand
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Zachary Davriel Hillander, High King of Sacoridia, rues how much he has had to give up to lead his realm, including the freedom to live and love as he chooses. When an embassy from Eletia arrives to propose a joint venture between their realms to seek out an old ally in the north, he is dismayed to learn that the one Sacoridian they have in mind to accompany their guide is the woman he truly loves but cannot have: Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon. Karigan...
16) Winterlight
Author
Series
Green Rider series volume 7
Language
English
Description
"This seventh novel of the Green Rider series follows the adventures of messenger, magic wielder, and knight Karigan G'ladheon as she fights to save king and country from dark magic and a looming war."--
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be able to deliver the royal message on time?
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Weird and evil events at a London boarding school provide messenger Barnaby Grimes an opportunity to test his budding knowledge of the ancient Chinese art of yinchido, in which one focuses on silences and empty spaces.
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, delivering messages and running errands all over the city, day and night. Gangland funerals and diving expeditions are hazardous enough, but when the graveyards begin to give up their dead he is faced with his deadliest challenge yet.
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