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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
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Earthsea series volume 2
Earthsea trilogy volume 2
The Earthsea cycle volume 2
The second book of Earthsea
Earthsea trilogy volume 2
The Earthsea cycle volume 2
The second book of Earthsea
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
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Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief, wizard Ged Sparrowhawk, who seeks a special treasure.
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Earthsea series volume 3
Earthsea cycle volume Bk. 3
Earthsea trilogy volume 3
A Bantam book ; 10131-5
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Earthsea cycle volume Bk. 3
Earthsea trilogy volume 3
A Bantam book ; 10131-5
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea. The second book in LeGuin's fantasy series finds a mature Sparrowhawk sailing on a journey to find the cause of the evil disturbances in the world of Earthsea. Winner of the National Book Award.
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Earthsea series volume 1
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Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon,...
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Earthsea series volume 3
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Return to Earthsea with Ged, the brash young wizard who survived the enchanted labyrinth of The Tombs of Atuan. In the third episode of this brilliant fantasy saga, a much older Ged sets off on a harrowing quest for the source of a terrible darkness that is taking the magic out of Earthsea.
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Earthsea series volume 2
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WHEN YOUNG TENAR is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together,...
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Earthsea series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land-where the grass is withered, the stars never move, and lovers pass without knowing each other. The dead are pulling Alder to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea.
Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage....
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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The sorcerer Alder has the power of mending, but it may have become the power of destruction: every night he dreams of the wall between the land of the living and the land of the dead, and the wall is being dismantled. If the wall is breached, the dead will invade Earthsea. Ged, once Archmage of Earthsea, sends Alder to King Lebannen. Now Alder and the king must join with a burned woman, a wizard of forbidden lore, and a being who is woman and...
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Earthsea series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own.
"The Finder," a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and shows how some of its customs and institutions came to be. "The Bones of the Earth" features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and...
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place.
11) Tehanu
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2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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When Sparrowhawk, the Archmage of Earthsea, returns from the dark land stripped of his magic powers, he finds refuge with the aging widow Tenar and a crippled girl child who carries an unknown destiny.
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For fourteen years, Weed, as she is called, the daughter of Lord Garnet, has brought offerings to the standing stone. Alone in a shallow valley, she implores the stone not to forget her. To remember who he is and the life he led. To wait until the day he will be avenged. Now the day has finally arrived. After fourteen long years of waiting, he will have his revenge and she will have her father back. Or will she? Master storyteller Ursula LeGuin takes...
13) Tehanu
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Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan - she, an isolated young priestess, he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice. A lifetime ago, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now they must join forces again, to help another - the physically and emotionally...
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2018.
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"Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea ... comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations ... [and] the early short stories, Le Guin's 'Earthsea revisioned' Oxford lecture, and a new Earthsea story, never before printed. With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition will also include fifty illustrations by renowned artist Charles...