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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This work is a fantasy children's novel that explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be. Doomed to -- or blessed with -- eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is...
2) The warlock
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.
Author
Series
Secret series volume 4
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cass finds herself alone and disoriented in a dream-like world, while back at home she is in the hospital in a coma with Max-Ernest desperately searching for a way to awaken her.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.
Author
Series
Pandava volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
7) Ever
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
Author
Series
Haunting of Derek Stone volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek can't claim to be a normal fourteen-year-old anymore. Not after what he discovered at the Red House. His role in the war against the dead is more pivotal--and more terrifying--than he could have imagined. And so it all comes down to this. The Rift between the worlds of the living and the dead has to be closed forever. It seems like an impossible task. And it rests squarely on the shoulders...
Author
Series
Tut (P.J. Hoover) volume 2
Publisher
Starscape, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Granted the gift of immortality by the gods, King Tut, living as an eighth-grader in Washington, D.C., has been stuck in middle school for ages and to make things worse, evil General Horemheb, in league with the Cult of Set, is seeking revenge for his 3,000-year imprisonment at Tut's hands.
10) Medusa the mean
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Medusa wants to be more like her two sisters and the other kids at Mount Olympus Academy -- immortal. Is that too much to ask? As one of the few mortals at MOA, it's hard not to get jealous when you're surrounded by beautiful, powerful goddessgirl and godboy classmates. And it isn't easy making friends either, especially when you have snakes for hair and one mean reputation!"--Amazon.
11) El brujo
Author
Series
Secretos del inmortal Nicolas Flamel volume 5
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
♭2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
Español
Description
Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the human race.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and M16 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.
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