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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
Author
Series
Strange the dreamer volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
War orphan and junior librarian Lazlo Strange gets an unexpected opportunity to follow his dream of seeking the mythic lost city of Weep with the Godslayer and his band of legendary warriors.
Author
Series
Something Dark and Holy volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
385 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some stories are so beautiful, so brutal, that they claw at your heart and refuse to let go. Welcome to the world of Wicked Saints--an epic, passionate novel that you won't soon forget. Prepare to meet: A girl named Nadya, who hears the whispers of the gods inside her head, a Prince surrounded by desperate suitors and deadly assassins, and a monster hidden behind pale, tortured eyes--and a smile that cuts like a knife. The paths of these three characters...
4) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts.
5) Lore
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
466 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Every seven years there is a hunt offering mortal descendents of gods the opportunity to claim their divinity by killing any of nine immortals made mortal for one night. Lore Perseous has no desire to participate in the Agon, embittered because her family was killed by a rival who then ascended to godhood. When a childhood friend asks her to help, and a wounded god offers an alliance, Lore overlooks the steep cost of this decision in exchange for...
Author
Series
Strange the Dreamer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected"--
Author
Series
Little Thieves volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
The core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return...
Author
Series
Letters of Enchantment volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again... All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris's best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. But when Iris's letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands - that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her...
10) Lovely war
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...