Terry Brooks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 42
Description
Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revaled that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destory the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara--Shea being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
Panterra Qu, a newly anointed Knight of the Word who has been entrusted with the last black staff and its powers, must protect thousands of lives that are put in danger when centuries of protective magic disappears.
Author
Series
Star Wars volume 1 Phantom Menace
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The start of the Star Wars legend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Five hundred years have passed since Hawk led a tattered band of survivors into a valley protected by a magical barrier. Now the wall has been breached by demons. The last known Knight of the Word, Sider Ament, wields a powerful black staff that he hopes to pass to a new leader. After rescuing talented teen Trackers Panterra Qu and Prue Liss, Sider asks them to warn the Children of Hawk. Unfortunately, their council leaders don't share Sider's certainty...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
Description
Horror stalked the Four Lands as the Ildatch, ancient source of evil, sent its ghastly Mord Wraiths to destroy Mankind. Only Druid Allanon held the magic power of wishsong that could make plants bloom instantly or turn trees from green to autumn gold. But she, too, was in mortal danger, and Ildatch waited for Brin to fall into his trap.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Formats
Description
"Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family's slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization's downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 30
Description
Banished from Paranor because of his study of forbidden arcane arts, the Druid Bremen discovers that Brona, the evil Warlock Lord, and his dark forces are once again on the move, destroying everything in their path, and only a powerful weapon wielded by a united Four Lands can stop them.
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Series
Magic Kingdom of Landover volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Description
After Ben Holiday purchased Landover, he discovered the magic kingdom has some problems. The Barons refused to recognize a king and the peasants were without hope. To make matters worse, Ben learned he had to duel to the death with the Iron Mask, the terrible lord of the demons, a duel which no human could hope to win.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
Description
First book in the second Shannara series. Three hundred years have passed since Wishsong of Shannara, and magic is forbidden. Then the shade of Allanon summons the descendants of Shea Ohmsford to bring back the magic and restore the Druids.
11) Tanequil
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Description
While the evil druid Shadea a'Ru and Prime Minister Sen Dunsidan hold power, Penderrin sets out on a journey to find his aunt, the true Ard Rhys, and release her from her prison, a task for which he needs a talisman from the tree called the Tanequil.
12) Straken
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Description
"The High Druid of Shannara trilogy draws to a close as a young hero nears completion of his trial by fire, a banished ruler fights for her life in a wilderness of dread, and forces of darkness and light square off in a battle unto death for the right to absolute rule." "For reasons known only to himself, the King of the Silver River has charged young Penderrin Ohmsford, barely more than a boy, with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt, Grianne,...
Author
Series
Magic Kingdom of Landover volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Ben is trapped into returning to the Magic Kingdom by the wizard Meeks. There the wizard casts a spell on Ben to switch appearances with him. Ben becomes an outcast no longer recognized by any friend though all his enemies can still recognize him.
14) Wizard at large
Author
Series
Magic Kingdom of Landover volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
High Lord Ben Holiday and his beautiful love, Willow, are long in returning from Earth, and without the soil of Landover in which to root as a tree at times, Willow cannot survive. It is up to Questor Thews to save them.
Author
Series
Shannara novels. Fall of Shannara volume 1
Description
"The first book of the triumphant and epic four-part conclusion to the Shannara series, from one of the all-time masters of fantasy. The Four Lands has been at peace for generations, but now a mysterious army of invaders is cutting a bloody swathe across a remote region of the land. No one knows who they are, where they come from, or what they are after--and most seem content to ignore these disturbing events. The only people who sense a greater,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
John Ross, a modern-day Knight of the Word, becomes disillusioned with his quest and turns his back on magic to build a new life with the beautiful Stefanie Winslow, but he does not realize that a fallen Knight makes an irresistable target for the Void, and soon Ross and those he loves are being stalked by evil.
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Formats
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For centuries the Four Lands enjoyed freedom from its demon-haunted past, protected by magic-enhanced borders from the dark dimension known as the Forbidding and the profound evil imprisoned there. But now the unthinkable is happening: The ancient wards securing the barrier between order and mayhem have begun to erode-and generations of bloodthirsty, monstrous creatures are poised to spill forth, seeking revenge. Young Elf Arling Elessedil possesses...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man's-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. In fortified compounds, survivors hold the line against wandering predators, rogue militias, and hideous mutations spawned from the toxic environment, while against them all stands an enemy neither mortal nor merciful: demons and their...