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Discworld volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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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.
2) Hogfather
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Discworld volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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Who would want to harm Discworld's most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there's something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins' Guild and certain...
3) Equal rites
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Discworld volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eight son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex.
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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.
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Discworld volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Twoflower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it on its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof....
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Discworld volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A zany bunch of futuristic actors--Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage salesman; and Gaspode, the talking dog--embark on an epic movie project.
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Discworld volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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"Pratchett's Discworld yarns . . . are comic masterpieces. This one, unfailingly amusing and sometimes hysterically funny, is recommended for anyone with the slightest trace of a sense of humor." — Kirkus Reviews
The sixteenth novel in the Discworld series from New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett — in which Death's granddaughter Susan must take over the family business.
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Science of Discworld volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. Within this universe is a planet that they name Roundworld. Roundworld is, of course, Earth, and the universe is our own. As the wizards watch their creation grow, Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen use Discworld to examine science from the outside. Interwoven with the Pratchett's original story are entertaining,...
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Discworld volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Rincewind, the world's most inept wizard, magically returns after falling off the edge of the world, this time carrying the Luggage, in a humorous fantasy of magic and mayhem. A sourcerer is born--a wizard so powerful that by comparison all other magic is just mucking about in pointy hats--and his very existence brings the Discworld to the very verge of all-out thaumaturgical war. All that stands in its way is Rincewind, the failed magician, who wants...
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Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
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Discworld volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Irresistibly cute but vicious elves infest the kingdom of Lancre, upsetting plans for a royal wedding and leaving the ordinary citizens helpless, and it is up to the witches, led by Granny Weatherwax, to handle the deadly brutes
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world....
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Discworld volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
When Captain Sam Vimes announces his retirement from the City Guard (he's leaving to marry the Richest Lady in all Ankh-Morpork - and become a Gentleman in the bargain), the job of keeping the city safe falls to Corporal Carrot. And being a cop in Discworld is no easy task, especially when there's an Assassin's plot afoot.
But before Vimes takes his leave, he and Carrot must solve a series of foul murders committed with a strange, new weapon never...
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Series
Discworld volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization. But these days, he can't always remember just where he put his teeth. So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest. He's...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In The Science of Discworld, the wizards of Unseen University unwittingly created Earth (aka Roundworld) and our universe. At the time, they were so concerned with the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants completely. Now, they have finally noticed humanity. And humanity has company: Elves, who want very much to take over human society. In this second installment in the Science of Discworld miniseries, Terry Pratchett and...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Charles Darwin writes the wrong book and reverses the progress of science, Unseen University's wizards must once again save Roundworld (Earth, that is) from an apocalyptic end. Ever since a wizardly experiment inadvertently brought about the creation of Roundworld, the wizard scholars of Unseen University have done their best to put things on the right course. In Darwin's Watch they may face their greatest challenge yet: A man called Darwin has...
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