Nancy Farmer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Zimbabwe, 2194 : General Matsika's three children steal out of the house on a forbidden adventure - and disappear. Their parents call in Africa's most unusual detectives: the Ear, the Eye and the Arm. Their mission takes them from the underbelly of the city to the swaying top of the Mile-High Macllwaie Hotel. Yet the children stay just out of their reach. The evils of the past, the technology of the future, criminals with plans far beyond what...
Author
Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El PatrÃçn, 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.
Author
Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chamelion, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to "the warm place" that is home.
Author
Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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.
9) Clever Ali
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When seven-year-old Ali's greedy pet steals cherries from the wicked Sultan for whom his father keeps carrier pigeons, Ali is given three days to find 600 new cherries or his father will be thrown into the deep, dark oubliette. Includes facts about carrier pigeons and the sultan on whom this story is based, as well as an excerpt from "In Praise of Books" by al-Jahiz.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Presents award-winning science fiction and fantasy stories, including a comic-book-style adaptation of a traditional ballad, all by authors connected with Firebird Books including Lloyd Alexander, Meredith Ann Pierce, Emma Bull, and thirteen others.
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