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1) Cat's Cradle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
A hobbit named Bilbo Baggins sets out on a great adventure with Gandalf the wizard and some dwarves in order to kill a dragon and finds the One Ring of Power on the way.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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A daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg - the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after World War II. Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but...
Author
Series
Tournament of shadows volume 1
Publisher
Pyr Books/Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Before history began, the dwarves of Thrymhaiam fought against the dragons as the Longest War raged in the Deep Roads beneath the Northhold. Now the dragons have returned, allied with the dead kings of Cor and backed by the masked gods of Fate and Chaos. The dwarves are cut off from the Graith of Guardians in the south. Their defenders are taken prisoner or corrupted by dragonspells. The weight of guarding the Northhold now rests on the crooked shoulders...
Author
Series
DragonLance saga. Heroes volume 5
Publisher
TSR, Inc
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
An exiled dwarf seeks the magic helm of Grallen. According to legend, when it is found, the kingdom of Thorbardin will be reunited, but the forces of darkness will also be set loose.
Author
Series
Dwarves (Markus Heitz) volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
There has been no word from the courageous warrior Tungdil since the bitter struggle at the Black Abyss. Dragons, magicians, and the cruel lfar have advanced far into the kingdom, seizing land. The dwarves face their next battle with very little hope of survival.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Having learned the truth about his identity, Charlie is separated from his friends and finds himself working for a company of dwarves who regard him as a machine until a heroic act renders them allies in a plan to confront the Iron Cog.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Molly O'Malley is a clever, adventurous girl. She is also a Dwerg. Dwergs are strange folks who live very quietly in the Catskill mountains, have lots of gold, and are kind of like dwarves (but also not!). Molly isn't interested in cooking and weaving, as she is expected to be. So, she sets off to see the world for herself. Which means a new job, a trip to New York City, prowling gangsters, an adorable king, a city witch, and many historical ghosts....
12) Time bandits
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A young boy escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon, but the Evil Genius is watching their every move!.
A toup of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied...
13) The rise of Greg
Author
Series
Epic series of failures volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Greg and his Dwarven friends seek a powerful amulet in the hope of averting a war with the Elves for the fate of magic on earth.
Magic and mayhem collide in the final book in the monstrously funny middle-grade trilogy An Epic Series of Failures. The Dawn of Magic has arrived, and thirteen-year-old Greg Belmont and his friends have only a few weeks left to figure out how to keep the modern world from falling into utter chaos. Greg's former best friend...
15) Albrek's tomb
Author
Series
Adventurers wanted volume 3
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Newly-named wizard Alexander Taylor joins a familiar company of adventurers on a new quest to discover the fate of the legendary dwarf Albrek, find his mythical tomb, and locate the lost talisman that could be the key needed to save the entire dwarf realm.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this frank, unflinching, hilarious andat timesheartbreaking memoir, Terra Jolé, beloved star of reality televisions Little Women: LA and Terras Little Family, shares her never-before-told story of what it takes to overcome small-mindedness and make it as a little person in Hollywood. With little more than a dream in her heart, the passion in her soul, and two hundred dollars in her pocket, Terra Jolé burst onto the Hollywood scene with a fierce...
Author
Series
Epic series of failures volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After learning that the Elves, led by his former best friend, are planning an attack using mythical monsters, Greg and his Dwarven friends find themselves in danger and Greg is relying on his bloodthirsty talking axe to help prevent a war.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.
Author
Language
English
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Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice. Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan's court. But Fiammetta and Bucino's greatest challenge...
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