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1) Longbow girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old expert archer Merry Owen is desperate to save her family's farm in Wales, in the shadow of the Black Castle, and when she finds a buried chest containing an ancient and hopefully valuable Welsh text, she hopes it will be the key to a fortune--and so it is, but not in the way she expected, for it sends her and her friend James de Courcy into past.
2) Framed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Gwyn Griffiths draws on the strength of his namesake and ancestor in Welsh magic, Gwydion Gwyn, in an effort to purge the anger from an ancient Welsh demonic god that he had helped release, and to soothe a moody, troubled soldier.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Following a serious illness, Will is sent to stay with his uncle in the wild, bleak mountains of Tywyd. He is troubled by vague memories until he meets the mysterious Bran - and suddenly Will knows the task that lies ahead. With Bran's help, Will set outs to find the golden harp and awaken the six sleepers who must join the final battle.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin. In an ideal blend of absorbing fantasy and realistic fiction, A String in the Harp tells the story of 12-year-old Pete Morgan who, on a visit to Wales, finds a harp key that shows him scenes from the life of the ancient bard Taliesin....
7) Emlyn's moon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Young magician Gwyn and his friend Nia have been warned to stay away from Emlyn Llewelyn, the strange boy who claims his mother lives on the moon. And yet, a mysterious magic continues to draw them to him. But why?
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd, beastologist volume 3
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 3
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 03
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 3
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nathaniel and Aunt Phil are summoned to the Welsh countryside to calm the giant dragons known as wyverns, they suspect the problem was caused by the same sinister man who has been trying to steal the Book of Beasts.
10) Griffin's Castle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
After years of having moved around, eleven-year-old Dinah determines to make a huge, dilapidated old mansion into a home for her mother and herself, but the wild beasts she summons from a stone wall to protect her may also imprison her.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Magic is fading from Wales--choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced into an uneasy rivalry. Ffion works hedgewitch magic for...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason"--Jacket.
14) The glass puzzle
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in Tenby, Wales, with their grandfather, American cousins Zoé and Ian assemble an old glass puzzle, inadvertently unleashing ancient forces that threaten the island and allowing them to travel into the past.
16) Rainbow garden
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When she is sent from her London home to live in the Welsh countryside with the large, boisterous Owen family, eleven-year-old Elaine feels miserable and resentful until she discovers an abandoned garden and determines to make it her secret sanctuary.
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