Terry Pratchett
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Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 2
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
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A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
750L
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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.
3) Wintersmith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she banished an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen . . . . But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is Winter itself--snow, gales, icicles--all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-flower 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 in its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof....
5) Nation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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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.
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Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
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Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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The wizards of Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University attempt to learn the rules of football and win a game without using magic.
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Series
Discworld volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The Discworld is moving towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, and its only possible savior is Rincewind.
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Discworld volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves--and they're...
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Discworld volume 29
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Polly Perks, fearing that the national deity's decree against female ownership of a business is going to cause her to lose the family's inn, disguises herself as a man in order to join the military and find her brother who she fears has been killed in Borogravia's latest war.
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Tiffany Aching calls upon her fellow witches as the fairy horde prepares a fateful invasion and an old enemy prepares to launch an assault that could destroy the world as Tiffany knows it in this final installment of the Discworld series. Tiffany Aching adventures series, 288pp.
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Discworld volume 32
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Former Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig finds himself working at the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork, where he makes money and enemies while finding out who is stealing from the mint.
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Discworld volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the...
15) Dodger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
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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 Sweeny Todd"--Provided by publisher.
16) Wyrd sisters
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Series
Discworld volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Trouble begins to brew in the tiny kingdom of Lancre when Granny Weatherwax and her spell sisters, disturbed during their monthly cauldron-stirring by murder, mayhem, and a royal birth, give the new prince away to a passing theatrical troupe.
17) The long earth
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Long Earth volume 1
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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...
19) Equal rites
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Series
Discworld volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A dying wizard attempts to pass his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son who is in the process of being born, not realizing until it is too late that the newborn is a girl.
20) Eric
Author
Series
Discworld volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
An inept demonologist wants three wishes granted--to be immortal, to rule the world, and to have a beautiful woman fall in love with him. But instead of a demon, he calls up Rincewind, the most incompetent wizard in the universe. Because Eric gives him no other choice, Rincewind tries to grant him his wishes--with hysterical results.