Terry Pratchett
Author
Series
Discworld volume 34
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
Author
Series
Discworld volume 35
Language
English
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Description
"Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job"--
23) Dodger
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horsedrawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's... Dodger. Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl -...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many thingswisdom, magic, and their love of teatimebut athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive an erstwhile tradition and once again put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staffor lose the funding that pays for their nine daily...
28) The long Utopia
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
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins, Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 28
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
33) Nation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vicious storm has ripped away everything that Mau knows, and he now stands as the lone inhabitant of a desert island. However, when her ship flounders, Daphne joins Mau on the island, and the two work towards surviving together. The lessons that follow create a deep bond of understanding between Mau and Daphne, as they synchronously form their own Nation.
Author
Series
Johnny Maxwell trilogy volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.
36) 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
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
℗2012.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing...
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.