Gerard Doyle
1) Eragon
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In Alagaësia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
3) Eldest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
4) Charmed life
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches.
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Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping from the Sea of Trolls, the apprentice bard Jack plunges into a new series of adventures, traveling underground to Elfland and uncovering the truth about his little sister Lucy.
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Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
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Series
Odyssey of a slave volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The second volume in the "Odyssey of a Slave" trilogy continues the retelling of Homer's epic, The Odyssey. Alexi, a young Trojan boy captured by Odysseus after the fall of Troy, is forced to accompany the hated Greeks on their sea journey home to Ithaca. Cursed by the Sea God retells many of The Odyssey's most iconic adventures, including the encounter with the keeper of the winds, the descent into Hades, the fateful visit to the cannibal Laestrygonians,...
Author
Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.
Author
Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
10) The time thief
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.
12) The Pinhoe egg
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
Language
English
Description
No one's sure what's inside the big mauve-speckled egg that Cat Chant found in the attic but when it eventually hatches in Chrestomanci Castle chaos breaks out in the surrounding village.
13) Murtagh
Author
Series
Inheritance volume 5
Language
English
Description
The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air-and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alagaesia....