Michael Whelan
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations--The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with...
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 11
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
The greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction.
Author
Series
Space Odyssey volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
While on expedition to Halley's Comet, a spaceship crew is called to carry out a dangerous rescue mission.
5) Dragonsdawn
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Deadly spores threaten the human colony of Pern unless the colonists, with help from geneticist Kitti Ping, can develop fire-breathing dragons to combat the menace
The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to s new colonists -- until unimaginable terror turned it into hell Suddenly deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything -- and everyone -- in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth...
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
All seems well on Pern until a mysterious ailment strikes killing myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders. Pern is left in mortal danger with no one to rise to char the prarasitic Thread. The dragonriders of Pern are in danger from a mutated strain of influenza.
8) Horn crown
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Language
English
Description
Describes the first coming of mankind into the Witch World deserted by the Elder People. Elron, the Clanless, and Gathea, the Wise Woman, are drawn unwillingly into the unexplored realms.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Like Earth, the space colony of Destiny has its trading caravans, except on Destiny they don't deal in spices but speckles, an ingredient necessary for mental health. The hero is a member of a caravan and as the novel follows his adventures it describes the colony's unusual culture.
Author
Series
Incarnations of immortality volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1985.
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Niobe's only chance of revenging her lover's murder is to solve a maze of riddles devised by Satan. But since her strength is beauty, not intelligence, the question becomes whether her failure has already been woven into the Tapestry of Fate.
11) El pistolero
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 1
Publisher
Plaza Janes
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Author
Series
Incarnations of immortality volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Mym was a dutiful son, but rather than agree to his father's choice for his marriage, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of office of the Incarnation of War, in order to ameliorate some of the suffering caused by Earth's constant petty wars. But Mym discovered that Satan was waiting to trap him, and he must now take desperate measures to outwit the evil genius who aimed to destroy the world.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Before Man and insectlike Thranx had become allies, when the reptilian AAnn were just occasional raiders of Thranx colony worlds, one young Thranx agricultural expert lived a life of quiet desperation. A dreamer in a world of sensible, stable beings, Ryo buried himself in his work -- reclaiming marshland from a tenacious jungle -- until he came across a letter describing a relative's encounter with horrid, two-legged, soft-skinned space-going beasts....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 photos, color illustrations by celebrated "Dark Tower" artist Michael Whelan, and black-and-white drawings by Maine artist Glenn Chadbourne; supplemented with interviews with friends, colleagues, and mentors who knew King well; looking at King's formative years in Durham, when he began writing fiction as a young teen, his college years in the turbulent sixties, his struggles with early poverty, working full-time...