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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism...
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Series
Alchemical journeys volume 2
Description
Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame. The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins! Melanie has a destiny, though it isn't the one everyone assumes it to be. She's delicate; she's fragile; she's dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn't want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer...
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Series
Song of ice and fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 49
Description
"Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war....Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel--and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles"--P. [4] of cover.
4) Ashlords
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Series
Ashlords volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Every year since the Ashlords were gifted phoenix horses by their gods, they've raced them. First into battle, then on great hunts, and finally for the pure sport of seeing who rode the fastest. Centuries of blood and fire carved their competition into a more modern spectacle: The Races. Over the course of a multi-day event, elite riders from clashing cultures vie to be crowned champion. But the modern version of the sport requires more than good...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to find someone who can teach them Water Magic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists Nicholas Flamel and John Dee over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Having consumed Gluttony's powers, Pride may now be too much to handle for Ed and his allies. Their only chance could be the help of Al and Hohenheim, but will Ed trust his estranged father long enough for their plan to work? And back at Central City, Mustang and his team have started their attack. But does the army have a dangerous trick up its sleeve?" -- from publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Fullmetal alchemist light novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A group of outcasts is determined to discover the alchemical secrets of Alphonse Elric's creation. Now, Ed must go into the Devil's Nest to rescue his brother and face an artificial human being called a homunculus.
9) The Magician
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Series
Infinity alchemist volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic--so when Ash is rejected by Lancaster College of Alchemic Science, he takes a job as the school's groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he's discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested--but instead of calling the reds, Ramsay surprises Ash by making him an offer: Ramsay will keep Ash's secret...
13) The Apothecary
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Series
Apothecary series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
Author
Series
Fullmetal alchemist light novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Turning the tables, the Elric brothers and Prince Lin set a trap for the homunculus with the insatiable appetite--Gluttony. Meanwhile, state politics are shaken up when a horrifying truth about Führer President King Bradley comes out.
Author
Series
Fullmetal alchemist light novels volume 1
Description
The raid on the Devil's Nest becomes a slaughter, leaving Ed and Al forever affected by the battle. Foreign travelers, Mei and Ling, arrive from the country of Xing, searching for the Philosopher's Stone and a secret even the Elric brothers never imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical "auto-mail" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his brother and himself--the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Vowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Henry "Monty" Montague and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen.--
18) A golden fury
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In 1792, after leaving her violently mad mother behind in revolutionary France, seventeen-year-old Thea Hope travels to England, where she risks losing her own sanity when she creates the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
Author
Series
Fullmetal alchemist light novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
After Edward Elric and his brother Alphonse attempt to raise their mother from the dead, Edward is left without and arm and leg and Alphonse's soul has been attached to a suit of armor and they must roam the earth looking for a way to restore their bodies.