Nancy Farmer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Orchard Classics is a collectible hardcover line of Newbery award-winning titles from the Orchard backlist that have fresh, beautiful new designs and include author prefaces and discussion guides.A GIRL NAMED DISASTER is the humorous and heartwrenching story of young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in...
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Baby Ruva lives with her giraffe family in a beautiful jungle. One sad day she is kidnapped and taken across the ocean to a horrible zoo. Thanks to four wise and magical friends she has met along the way, the baby giraffe is managing to survive, but time is running out. The zookeepers are going to kill her so they can use her cage for a new shipment of hyenas. Now she and her friends must outwit their evil captors and find their way back to "the warm...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Author
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.
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patrón, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.