Terry Pratchett
1) Nation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
2) Dodger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
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"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"--
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Discworld volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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A dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...
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Long Earth volume 1
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1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone?2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive-some say mad, others allege dangerous-scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the...
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Discworld volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
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Running the family inn despite dwindling resources while her brother is away at war, Polly cuts off her hair to join the army and notices that her fellow recruits seem to be hiding secrets of their own.
6) Thud!
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Discworld volume 31
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[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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"Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer - he might not even be a spoon. But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always-tentative peace - and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirring up big trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events."...
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Discworld volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop...
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Discworld volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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Sam Vimes can't tell what kind of day he's having. One moment he's fighting a ruthless murderer on top of the library of the Unseen University. The next, he's thrown back in time. But, the city's on the brink of revolt, and that killer he was after in the future is with him here in the past, which is now the present. Now all Vimes has to do is figure out how to get back home--but first he has to change the outcome of a bloody rebellion.
9) Truckers
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Bromeliad trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
10) Diggers
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Bromeliad trilogy volume 2
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The nomes, whose families have lived for generations in a department store, are forced to flee to a country quarry, where they struggle against harsh weather, destructive humans, and dissension among themselves, and where they realize that their destiny may lie elsewhere.
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Discworld volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Discworld's ancient rival cities Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali go to war over an island that rises out of the sea and is claimed by both cities.
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Pub. Date
2015
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Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching. A SHIVERING OF WORLDS Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad....
13) The truth
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Discworld volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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William de Worde is the accidental editor of the "Discworld's" first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people, who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately,...
14) The Wee Free Men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
15) Wings
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Three four-inch-high nomes, led by Masklin and aided by the tiny computer called Thing, set out on a dangerous journey, determined to contact the ship that brought them to Earth and to find a way home for all the nomes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
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Discworld volume 32
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Reprieved confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004's Going Postal, turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this splendid Discworld adventure. It seems that the aristocratic families who run the mint are running it into the ground, and benevolent despot Lord Vetinari thinks Moist can do better. Despite his fondness for money, Moist doesn't want the job, but since he has recently become the guardian...
18) Wintersmith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.
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Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
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Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.