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Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As a young dragoneer moves through the ranks of a prestigious dragonriding academy, her challenges grow greater and her time grows short to draw out a series of deadly threats, in the second installment of this thrilling coming-of-age fantasy series. Fifteen-year-old Ileth is now an Apprentice Dragoneer, with all of the benefits and pitfalls that her elevation in rank entails. She has survived many challenges to achieve the next step in her training,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It may have been a ghost that led Eleanor Wilde to set up shop in a quaint English village. But now that she's established herself as the town witch, Ellie's contentedly casting spells on anyone desperate enough--or gullible enough--to request her mysterious potions... Selling mystical elixirs and tantalizing tonics is a pretty good way for a fake medium to earn a living. Or at least it's Ellie's main source of income--until a villager turns up dead....
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The 18th century. In a monastery in the North of Spain hides the sacred temple of the Knights of Heliopolis: an assembly of immortal alchemists cut off from the world. As disciple Seventeen prepares to complete his training and integrate order, his master Fulcanelli reveals to the other knights the terrible secret of his origins - Seventeen is actually the hidden son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette! Will the young heir claim the throne or...
Series
Clock striker volume 1
Publisher
Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quatro Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Clock Striker follows Shonen manga's first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers. Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Besides, these legendary warrior engineers haven't been seen in years and were never known for having female members. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving member named...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When inept, but well-intentioned Mort gets only one offer for an apprenticeship--with Death--he can't exactly turn it down. But Mort finds that being Death's right-hand man isn't as bad as it seems--until he falls back to his old, bumbling ways.
Author
Series
Odditorium volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With evil Prince Nightshade hot on their trail, Alastair Grim and his apprentice Grubb and the rest of the crew of the unique mechanical/magical apparatus known as the Odditorium embark on a perilous underwater adventure to the otherworldly realm of Avalon, to find the legendary sword Excalibur, the only weapon capable of penetrating the prince's magical suit of armor.
Author
Series
Ashtown burials volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered in skeleton tattoos, Cyrus, Antigone, and their brother Daniel are introduced to an ancient secret society, and discover that they have an important role in keeping it alive.
68) The Stern chase
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Follow the Brotherband in a battle against an Iberian pirate raiding ship in the latest exciting tale in the Brotherband Chronicles from John Flanagan, author of the internationally bestselling Ranger's Apprentice series! The Herons are home in Skandia--preparing to celebrate two of their own and working on sea trials in the newly constructed Heron. But during a short excursion, they encounter an Iberian pirate ship raiding the coast of Sonderland,...
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