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Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.
2) Dragon rider
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
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Description
All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of a victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
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Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when...
6) Melmoth
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
* / Gahan Wilson -- The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees / E. Lily Yu -- The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank R. Stockton -- Ozioma the Wicked / Nnedi Okorafor -- Sunbird / Neil Gaiman -- The Sage of Theare / Diana Wynne Jones -- Gabriel-Ernest / Saki -- The Cockatoucan; or, Great-Aunt Willoughby / E. Nesbit -- Moveable Beast / Maria Dahvana Headley -- The Flight of the Horse / Larry Niven -- Prismatica / Samuel R. Delany -- The Manticore,...
Author
Series
Beast charmer volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell is running out of time. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts-an offense punishable by death-and now there's a price on her head. With the realm's most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at her heels, Leena makes Noc an offer he can't refuse: powerful mythical creatures in exchange for her life. Plagued by a curse that kills everyone he loves, Noc agrees to Leena's terms in hopes of finding a cure....
10) The rain heron
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A story following an old woman and a young soldier in a war-torn country as they seek a mythical creature called the Rain Heron"--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
NC 1230L
Language
English
Description
A facsimile edition of the text required for the Hogwarts' Care of Magical Creatures class offers alphabetically arranged entries detailing the characteristics of such mythical beasts as hippogrifs, blast-ended screwts, dragons, and unicorns.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Anna Kellogg has always felt different. Growing up in Hartwood, New Jersey--where frequent disappearances are attributed to an urban-legend-like beast that dwells in the walled-in swamp at the center of town--can have that effect on people. But for Anna, it's more than that. Since she was a child, she's been plagued by episodes where she sees things others can't see. Feeling different is one thing, but actually being different is another. If it weren't...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle's house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the "innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling" (Mira Grant, Nebula Award-winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After fleeing from the Covenant of St. George, Antimony Price finds herself in debt to the crossroads and running for her life. Nof family. No mice. No way out. Luckily she's always been resourceful and has been gathering allies as she travels.
17) The hexologists
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case. But when they are approached...
18) The dire king
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In this conclusion to the Jackaby series, the eccentric detective and his assistant Abigail Rook find themselves in the middle of a war between magical worlds.
Author
Series
Teeny Sweeney volume 2
Publisher
Little Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the second installment of the Teeny Sweeney series, aspiring graphic novelist Teeny Sweeney is surprised by a visit from her cousin, Winston Waddlesworth, ruining her mega-important four-day weekend before it's even begun. A vlogging sensation, Winston is Teeny's biggest fan. Too bad the feeling isn't mutual. Winston's endless barrage of useless history facts-not to mention his radioactive breath-threaten to interfere with the biggest, most exciting...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016." "I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart--and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit...