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Long Earth volume 3
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English
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"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration."--
When her long-lost father, the inventor of the original Stepper device, contacts her, Sally joins him on an ill-fated voyage to Long Mars, while U.S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman leads an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth, and Joshua becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 1
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English
Description
The stepper enables a person using it to step sideways into another America, another wherever that person happened to be, another Earth. And if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more Earths. This is the Long Earth. And the further away a stepper travels, the stranger--and sometimes more dangerous--the Earths become.
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Series
Discworld volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess, her family's inn, even though the revered national deity, Nuggan, has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination. To keep The Duchess in the family, Polly must find her missing sibling. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and sets out to join him in this man's army.
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Series
Long Earth volume 5
Language
English
Description
The Next -- the hyper-intelligent post humans -- realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
5) The Long War
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Series
Long Earth volume 2
Language
English
Description
A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
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Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Description
2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a 'normal' life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history....
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Discworld volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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A fantasy featuring the wizard Rincewind on a mission to an empire undergoing a cultural revolution reminiscent of the one in China. The novel's title is a play on the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." By the author of Men at Arms.
8) Diggers
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English
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A group of small creatures called nomes, whose families have lived for generations hidden in a department store, are forced to flee to a country quarry, where they struggle against harsh weather, destructive humans, and dissension among themselves.
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Johnny Maxwell trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
540L
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English
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Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.
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Discworld volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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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
Language
English
Description
"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
Language
English
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Description
William de Worde begins the first newspaper on Discworld and discovers investigative journalism.
14) Truckers
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series, comes the first book in the comic and insightful Bromeliad trilogy.
The nomes are ready for their Bright New Dawn!
But the trouble with Bright New Dawns is that they're usually followed by cloudy days. With scattered showers. Still, a group of tiny nomes is finally adjusting to a new home at the abandoned
...15) Carpe Jugulum
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Series
Discworld volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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"The king of Lancre celebrates the birth of a daughter to his wife Magrat, a somewhat retired sorceress, leading to a party gate-crashing by vampires from the land of Uberwald."--from NoveList.
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Discworld volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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Description
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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Discworld volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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Description
It's murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace...
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Discworld volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
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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Series
Discworld volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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Description
This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation. Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, & bush ranger, whose luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuc by a billabong? Yes ... all this place has between itself & wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
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