Taran Matharu
1) The Novice
Author
Series
Summoner volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy where must decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of an empire is in his hands.
Author
Series
Summoner volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
While Fletcher and his friends undertake a mortally dangerous quest in the ether, albino orc Khan is on a mission to destroy Hominum and all that Fletcher loves.
Author
Series
Summoner volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Fletcher is put on trial by the Inquisition where he discovers his tragic origins, then is sent by the king into the Orc jungles where he and loyal friends Othello and Sylva must battle their way to the heart of Orcdom and save Hominum from destruction.
4) The chosen
Author
Series
Contender volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Cade is settling into a new boarding school, contemplating his future, when he finds himself transported to another realm. He soon discovers their new world is populated with lost remnants from the past: prehistoric creatures, ancient relics, and -- stranger still -- people. Overwhelmed by his new surroundings, Cade has little time to adjust, for soon he and his fellow classmates are forced to become contenders in a brutal game, controlled by mysterious...
5) The outcast
Author
Series
Summoner volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Stable boy Arcturus accidentally becomes Hominum's first common summoner and is whisked away to Vocans Academy, but before he can settle in he must choose a side or watch the Empire crumble.
Author
Series
Contender volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Cade Carter and his friends have survived the qualifying round of the mysterious overlords' twisted games, decimated by the loss of so many of their comrades during the fight. But they have no time to mourn, for the next round of trials is about to begin. When the group discovers that their next foe will be even more ferocious than the last, Cade leads them on a quest out into their strange new world to find anything that might give them an edge....
7) The champion
Author
Series
Contender volume 3
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In Taran Matharu's The Champion, the explosive final book in the Contender trilogy, Cade and his friends wage the ultimate battle for their lives—and the fate of Earth itself—in the Game set by the cruel and mysterious Pantheon… Cade has managed to survive the duel with the Hydra Alpha—barely. But the Games are far from over. By order of their cruel and mysterious overlord, Abaddon, Cade and his friends are sent off to war against the Greys,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A collection of writings partially or primarily authored or compiled by common summoner James Baker, including his journal of his time at Vocans and at the front, his Treatise on the Basics of Summoning, The Demonology Codex, The Essential List of Spells, and A History of Hominum.
9) Dragon rider
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Jai lives as a royal hostage in the Sabine Court - ever since his father Rohan, leader of the Steppefolk, led a failed rebellion and was executed by the very emperor Jai now serves. When the emperor's son and heir is betrothed to Princess Erica of the neighboring Dansk Kingdom, she brings with her a dowry: dragons. Endemic to the northern nation, these powerful beasts come in several forms, but mystery surrounds them. Only Dansk royalty know the...