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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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830L
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"According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living...
2) Go, mutants!
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Describes the adventures of J!m, the brooding blue-skinned rebel son of an alien that nearly destroyed the Earth, and Johnny, a leather-jacketed radioactive ape, as the pair navigate adolescence in the future.
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In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there. Yes-the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is, if they can survive the present...
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"Speculative fiction novel set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089, after residents have discovered how to survive with biological nanotech. Cyber Mage, the teenager moonlighting as a hacker, crosses paths with mercenary Djibrel and together they seek out the fate of the Djinn, a magical super race of genies"--
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Discworld volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves--and they're...
6) Herland
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Herland (1915) is a utopian novel by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland was originally published in The Forerunner, a monthly magazine edited by Gilman, before going out of print for the next several decades. The novel was republished with an influential introduction by scholar Ann J. Lane in 1979 and has since been recognized as an important work of science fiction written by a leading feminist of the early twentieth century.
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Discworld volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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"This is fantasy served with a twist of Monty Python, parody that works by never taking itself too seriously." —Publishers Weekly
Murder! Mahem! Bacon sandwiches! People are dying suspiciously in Ankh-Morpork, and Sam Vimes of the City Watch will find the truth. Another brilliant and hilarious Discworld adventure from beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett
For Commander Sam
...8) Eric
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
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Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad--at his work, that is. Eric wants to fulfill three wishes: to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a hot babe. Instead of conjuring a demon, Eric brings forth a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes...
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Discworld volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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"Carefully reallocating the Time of Discworld to where it is most needed, Monk of History Lu Tze and his apprentice begin a literal race against time when the world's first truly accurate clock threatens to stop Time forever."--from NoveList.
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Discworld volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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William de Worde begins the first newspaper on Discworld and discovers investigative journalism.
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Xanth volume 23
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When a climatic catastrophe threatens to destroy the forests of Xanth, Breanna of the Black Wave and her new-found love Justin must rely on their common sense to save themselves and their planet.
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Discworld volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
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Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi-a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father wasn't too happy about either). It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school,...
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Xanth volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Drawn into Xanth by a harmless-looking computer game, Dug and Kim battle their way across Xanth, testing their courage against dozens of fearsome obstacles.
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Songkiller saga volume 2
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The ancient ballads of England, Scotland and Ireland are great stories to visit but nobody in their right mind would want to live there. There's a high body count for every ballad and a happy ending usually involves boy meets girl and they end up sharing a grave. The musicians who go to retrieve the songs, with the help of the magic banjo, Lazarus, know this, but the fact is, the songs also contain a great deal of magic useful in defeating the devils...
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Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 3
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 3
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 03
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 3
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 03
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"In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone's home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from... until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with...
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Discworld volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
720L
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Sam Vimes can't tell what kind of day he's having. One moment he's fighting a ruthless murderer on top of the library of the Unseen University. The next, he's thrown back in time. But, the city's on the brink of revolt, and that killer he was after in the future is with him here in the past, which is now the present. Now all Vimes has to do is figure out how to get back home--but first he has to change the outcome of a bloody rebellion.
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Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 770L
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English
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Handed a message by a mysterious man, a young pawn shop owner embarks on a psychologically dangerous mystery that entangles her in the life of the local PTA treasurer, who helplessly watches her son's growing obsession with his absent father.
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Another Coop heist volume 1
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English
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"Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced supernatural series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels--a dark and humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of baddies determined to possess its power, and a clever thief who must steal it back. again and again. 2000 B.C.A beautiful, ambitious angel stands on a mountaintop, surveying the world...
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John Buchan (1875-1940), author of over 100 books including The Thirty-Nine Steps, was a stealth writer of supernatural and Weird fiction. From the beginning of his career to his last works, he brought supernatural elements into his narratives to test his characters and thrill his readers.
His 1932 novel The Gap in the Curtain was his last full-length work devoted to exploring a supernatural theme: if you were able to see one year into the future,...
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The celebrated medievalist William Morris was among the first writers to combine supernatural elements with world building. He created the precursors of modern fantasy fiction, and both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien acknowledged his influence on their writing. In his final novel, Morris draws upon Icelandic lore to tell a tale of two lovers, Osberne and Elfhild, separated by a broad river. When Elfhild vanishes from the riverbank, Osberne takes...
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