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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Paid piper is a retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Red as blood is a retelling of Snow White; Thorns is a retelling of Sleeping beauty; When the clock strikes is a retelling of Cinderella; The golden rope is a retelling of Rapunzel; The princess and her future is a retelling of The frog prince; Wolfland is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood; Black as ink is a retelling of Swan lake; Beauty is a retelling of Beauty and the beast.
Author
Series
History of Middle-earth volume 8
Pub. Date
2000, c1990
Description
From the publisher. In The War of the Ring Christopher Tolkien takes up the story of the writing of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helm's Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents. This is followed by an account of how Frodo, Sam and Gollum were finally brought to the Pass of Kirith Ungol, at which point J.R.R. Tolkien wrote at the time: "I have got the hero into such a fix that not even an author will be able to extricate him without...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
Over 200 illustrations accompany entries concerning the lands, inhabitants, languages, geography, and history of Middle Earth. An appendix examines the legends Tolkien drew on in his writings: the Volsunga saga, the Nibelungenlied, and Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Author
Series
Xanth volume 9
Pub. Date
1986.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Grundy Golem goes on a quest to find the long-lost dragon, Stanley Steamer. Along the way he rescues Rapunzel from the evil Sea Hag and a chase ensues.
Author
Series
First law volume 2
Description
Superior Glokta has a problem. How can he defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when his allies can by no means be trusted? Ancient secrets will be uncovered and bitter enemies will be forgiven--but not before they are hanged--in this sequel to "The Blade Itself."
Author
Series
Lord of the Rings volume 3
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Part one: The Fellowship of the Ring; Part two: The Two Towers; Part three: The Return of the King.
Author
Series
History of Middle-earth volume 6
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
From the publisher. In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would...
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Series
Description
When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit, she finds herself in Wonderland. And there begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the very maddest of tea parties. For Wonderland is no ordinary place and the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met before....
Author
Series
Discworld volume 1
Formats
Description
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course the edge of the planet...
Author
Pub. Date
2021, c1954.
Description
See how J.R.R. Tolkien envisioned Middle-earth in this new edition of his masterwork, now illustrated with his own artwork. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him,...
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Description
The New York Times bestseller, now fully updated to include Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Who was the real Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer's Stone get its power? Did J.K. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or the vicious grindylow? And if she didn't, who did? Millions of readers around the world have been enchanted by the magical world of wizardry, spells, and mythical beasts inhabited by Harry Potter...
53) Miss subways
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Emer lives in New York City; she takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly aspirations, and lives with her boyfriend, Con. But she is also on a mystical journey down parallel tracks of time and love. On the way, Emer will battle natural and supernatural forces to find her true voice, power, and destiny. -- adapted from jacket.
Author
Series
History of Middle-earth volume 7
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
From the publisher. The Treason of Isengard is the seventh volume in Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle-earth and the second in his account of the evolution of The Lord of the Rings. In this book, following the long halt in the darkness of the Mines of Moria with which The Return of the Shadow ended, is traced the great expansion of the tale into new lands and new peoples south and east of the Misty Mountains; the emergence of Lothlorien, of...
Author
Series
the Chronicles of Narnia volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A wild gallop for freedom. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh lives, they soon find themselves at the Centre of a terrible battle. It is a battle that will decide their fate and the fate of Narnia itself.