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Legends of the First Empire volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Age of Swords continues the epic story of the war between humankind and the elves--and of ordinary people becoming legendary heroes. It introduces a set of new characters: the dwarves, whose magical weaponcraft could decide the war. It's up to our heroes to win over the dwarves to the side of humankind...or else lose the war forever"--
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Series
Five hundred kingdoms volume 5
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Rosa believes that for every princess there's a prince, stepmothers should never be trusted, and bad things come to those who break with Tradition. When she is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Sometimes a princess has to create her own happy ending...
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Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old-sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the...
7) Going bovine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
8) The Legacy
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Having found a measure of peace among the dwarves in the reclaimed Mithral Hall, Drizzt begins to know contentment for perhaps the first time in his tumultuous life. But for the dark elf renegade from a city ruled by priestesses of a demon goddess, no peace can long last. It is Lolth herself, the dreaded Queen of the Demonweb Pits, who musters her followers to pour up from the black depths of the Underdark to reclaim for their goddess the one soul...
Author
Series
Legend of Drizzt; Book IV volume 11-13, The silent blade, the spine of the world, Sea of swords
Pub. Date
2013
Description
When Crenshinibon threatens the world again, Drizzt and company seek the help of the legendary cleric Cadderly to destroy the Crystal Shard once and for all.
Though they've managed to save Wulfgar's body from captivity in the Abyss, Drizzt and his companions come to realize that a part of the barbarian's soul may have been left behind--but all they can do is let Wulfgar take his own path. And that path will take him to the bottom of a bottle, into...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.
Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his...
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Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
Description
As Matron Baenre prepares an assault on Drizzt Do'Urden and Mithril Hall, the ruling houses begin to fall. One family unleashes potent nonmagical forces and rises to power. Only an ancient dwarven king and allies from the depths can save the people from complete domination.
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A wily dwarf Bucino Teodoldo recounts fantastic escapades with his mistress, celebrated courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini. Escaping the 1527 sacking of Rome with just the clothes on their backs (and a few swallowed jewels in their bellies), Fiammetta and Bucino seek refuge in Venice. Starved, stinking, her beauty destroyed, Fiammetta despairs but through cunning, will, Bucino's indefatigable loyalty and the magic of a mysterious blind healer called La...
14) Neverwinter
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"With the last of his trusted companions having fallen, Drizzt is alone--and free--for the first time in almost a hundred years. Guilt mingles with relief, leaving Drizzt uniquely vulnerable to the persuasions of his newest companion--Dahlia, a darkly alluring elf and the only other member of their party to survive the cataclysm at Mount Hotenow. But traveling with Dahlia is challenging in more ways than one. As the two companions seek revenge on...
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American...
17) Truckers
Author
Series
Bromeliad trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Reluctant to believe that there is a world outside the department store in which they live, Torrit, Dorcas, and the other nomes look to Masklin, a newly arrived "outsider," to lead them to a safe haven when the store goes out of business.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2004
Description
After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.
Author
Series
Sovereign stone trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"Two centuries have passed since a piece of the Sovereign Stone - the portion belonging to the humans of Loerem - was lost. Now few on this world shared by many antagonistic races remember it ever existed. But there is one who can never forget: Gustav, a human Dominion Lord, who has made it his life's work to find the missing sacred artifact." "Success, however, costs Gustav dearly. Having at long last recovered the magical relic, he is set upon by...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.