Terry Pratchett
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Series
Long Earth volume 5
Language
English
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The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life? 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: (3z(BJoin us.(3y(B The Next—the hyper-intelligent post-humans—realize that the missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown and, disguised as a human, attempts to live a "normal" life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
6) The Long war
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 2
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tiffany Aching, the witch of the Chalk, seeks her place amid a troublesome populace and tries to control the ill-behaved, six-inch-high Wee Free Men who follow her as she faces an ancient evil that agitates against witches.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A dying wizard hopes to pass his wisdom on to the eighth son of an eighth son, but when the child comes out female, the future of magic could be in jeopardy.
9) Wintersmith
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Series
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.
Author
Series
Johnny Maxwell trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.
11) Good Omens
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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The world is preparing to come to an end according to the Divine Plan recorded in the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (written in 1655). Meanwhile, a fussy angel and a fast-living demon have grown fond of living among the earth's mortals for many millennia and are not looking forward to the apocalypse. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they must find and kill the Antichrist.
12) Good omens
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?