William Dufris
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's beloved classic gets a charming easy-to-read version. Simply told and beautifully illustrated, it transports kids to the banks of the Mississippi and introduces them to Twain's irrepressible, irresistible hero. Whether clever Tom is fooling his friends into painting a fence for him or making mischief in school or at a birthday party, his antics will delight young readers.
Author
Language
English
Description
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a humorous 1889 novel by American writer Mark Twain. In it, a Connecticut engineer is accidentally transported back to the time of King Arthur. He convinces the inhabitants of that time that he is a magician, and uses his knowledge of modern technology to stun them with such feats as demolitions, fireworks, and the shoring up of a holy well. Twain wrote the book as a satire of Romantic notions of chivalry...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, having learned he is a Traveler--someone who can ride "flumes" through time and space--is soon off to the alternative dimension of Denduron where he teams up with Loor, a girl his age from the warrior-territory of Zadaa, in an attempt to save the gentle Milago people from slavery.
Author
Series
Dog's purpose volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over.
Author
Series
Sam Kincaid novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sequel to the critically-acclaimed The Commission, Sam Kincaid and Kate McConnell are back. They must struggle to keep the witnesses to an armored car robbery alive.
Walter Bradshaw is being held for the botched robbery, but his followers—members of the Reformed Church of the Divine Christ—are ensuring that witnesses to the crime never make it to the stand. Are these boys hardened criminals or boys with nowhere else to
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1st Aladdin paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
With Saint Dane seemingly on the verge of toppling all of the territories, Pendragon and Courtney set out to rescue Mark and find themselves traveling--and battling--their way through different worlds as they try to save all of Halla.
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006, ©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.
11) The never war
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral--Spader--have flumed to New York City, 1937. Against a backdrop of gangsters, swing music, and the distant sound of a brewing war, the two must uncover the evil Saint Dane's newest plot.
12) The reality bug
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon enters a virtual world to defeat the evil Saint Dane and finds himself tempted to leave the real world behind.
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. Hosted by a strange pair of game masters, Veego and LaBerge, the games are a mix of sport and combat. They use the people of Quillan as pawns for their amusement as they force them to enter competitions that range from physical battles,...
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pendragon finds himself in the war-stricken territory of Cloral, he and his uncle take it upon themselves to rid the area of marauders and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival.
15) Black water
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious plague threatens to wipe out the inhabitants of Eelong, fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon must decide whether to risk getting the antidote and, thereby, endangering himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla.
16) Raven rise
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st Aladdin paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
While Pendragon is trapped on Ibara, Alder returns to Denduron and reluctantly goes into battle again, and other Travelers face obstacles of various sorts as Saint Dane gains the power he seeks on Second Earth and makes his push to destroy and rebuild Halla.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st Aladdin pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance—the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth was visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eye of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began—von Däniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of six Western stories by Louis L'Amour. No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion the good and the bad before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America's favorite Western author."