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Long Earth volume 1
Language
English
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1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 35
Language
English
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"Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job"--
3) Nation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
"[Pratchett's] books are almost always better than they have to be, and Going Postal is no exception, full of nimble wordplay, devious plotting and outrageous situations, but always grounded in an astute understanding of human nature." — San Francisco Chronicle
The 33rd installment in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a splendid send-up of government, the postal
...6) Dodger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
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"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeney Todd"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
A seemingly routine day in the life of City Watch commander Sam Vimes is abruptly interrupted by an unsolved murder, an impending war, an unwanted new recruit, and a pesky government inspector.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 26
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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.
11) Snuff
Author
Series
Discworld volume 34
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
Author
Series
Discworld volume 29
Language
English
Description
War has come to Discworld again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks's brother marched off to battle, and Polly's willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and, aided by a well-placed pair of socks, sets out to join this man's...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 27
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Disgruntled by the complications of modern life, an aged Cohen the Barbarian calls together a group of his elderly friends to join him in a quest to climb Discworld's highest mountain to meet the gods.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 25
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Discworld volume 32
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Prisoner-turned-postal worker Moist von Lipwig tackles a new assignment in a different branch of the government through which he is directed to oversee the printing of Ankh-Morpork's first paper currency, a job with unexpected challenges.
Author
Series
Science of Discworld volume 4
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job -- and indeed the truth of words -- very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours -- Roundworld -- is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 14
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1996, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
18) Night watch
Author
Series
Discworld volume 28
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Sent back in time, Sam Vimes encounters a younger version of himself and gets mistaken for his former commander, a situation that prompts him to change the outcome of a rebellion.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 13
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
[2003], c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Series
Science of Discworld volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The wizard scholars of Unseen University wrestle with the popularity of a theory of theological design put forth by a man named Darwin.
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