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Author
Series
A song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Formats
Description
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity's desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon--but does silence promise the nightmare's end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness...
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
The latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which Amy emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus.
5) The son
Author
Language
English
Description
"Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches,...
Author
Series
Earth's children) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xviii, 157 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
R.K. Narayan draws on the work of eleventh-century Tamil poet Kamban and recounts it with the narrative flair of a master novelist. The Ramayan is a sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe thronged with heroes, deities, and demons thrilling readers since the fourth century B.C.
8) The Odyssey
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. Includes pronouncing glossary.
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Gilgamesh epic is one of the world's oldest and most important legends. Gilgamesh is a terrible tyrant. When he orders his subjects to build a great wall, the exhausted people are in despair. But the evil king meets the "uncivilized" Enkidu, and learns lessons of friendship and true humanity that will change him forever.