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1) Mythology
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Greek, Roman and Norse myths.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, as well as the tales of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, and the battle between Theseus and the Minotaur.
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Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"What power can bruise the sky? Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her. When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited -- not in love, but in tentative alliance against their common enemy. It is a twisted...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called, she always came. In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other,...
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old blue-haired Karou finds herself at the center of a battle between supernatural forces and comes face-to-face with the truth about angels and demons.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Where do we come from? Why do stars shine and the seasons change? What is evil? Since the beginning of time, people have answered such questions by crafting imaginative stories that have served as religion, science, philosophy, and popular literature. In his irreverent a question-and-answer style, Davis introduces and explains the great myths of the world, as well as the works of literature that have made them famous. He tackles Mesopotamia's Gilgamesh,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty ... and what curses accompanied Cinderella's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the thing they loathe most--a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian's heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever. The ocean is the...
10) Starcrossed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere ... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced ... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care...
12) Dreamless
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
With help from her new friend Orion, seventeen-year-old Helen Hamilton descends into the Underworld in search of a way to break the Furies' blood curse and prevent the start of another Trojan War.
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Kate Winters is about to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, Henry, ruler of the Underworld, is abducted by the only being powerful enough to kill him: the King of the Titans.
Author
Series
Dangerous creatures volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"When Ridley goes missing after a car crash, Link, his bandmates, and Lennox Gates, joined by Liv and John Breed, embark on a search for the Siren, taking them to Mississippi, where they encounter legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson, and then to New Orleans, where an evil threatens to destroy them all."--
15) The goddess test
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.
16) The last unicorn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"She was magical, beautiful beyond belief -- and completely alone... The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: "Unicorns are gone from the world." Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set...
17) American gods
Author
Series
American gods volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling...
18) Starling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Surviving a supernatural storm that has decimated her school, Manhattan teen Mason Starling discovers her magical link to ancient Norse mythology and bonds with a stranger, Fennrys Wolf, who has no memory of his identity.
19) Underworld
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Glinda, former Throne Minister, held under house arrest by General Cherrystone, obtains the infamous Grimmerie, supposedly a volume of magical lore, coveted by Oz. Meanwhile, Lir's daughter Rain begins her quest to discover her true identity and unravel the layers of political and personal secrets that have caused strife and division in Oz.
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