Mercedes Lackey
1) Jolene
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 16
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Learning elemental magic from her witch aunt after her Tennessee coal miner father's black-lung death, Anna May falls in love with a stonemason who abandons his work as a gravestone cutter to pursue true art.
Author
Series
Five hundred kingdoms volume 6
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
The eldest daughter is often doomed in fairy tales. But Bella vows to escape the usual pitfalls. She dons a red cloak and ventures into the forbidden forest to consult with "Granny," the local wisewoman. On the way home she's attacked by a wolf-- who turns out to be a cursed nobleman! Secluded in his castle, Bella is torn between her family and this strange man who creates marvelous inventions and makes her laugh-- when he isn't howling at the moon...
Author
Series
Five hundred kingdoms volume 4
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, Aleksia, the ice fairy and Queen of the Northern Lights, realizing that a heartless imposter is ruining her reputation, sets out to face down a formidable foe.
Author
Series
Five hundred kingdoms volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Description
In the mystical realm of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, the newest Fairy Godmother tries to help three impossible princes find the women of their dreams, while fending off an evil sorcerer who is determined to destroy her kingdom.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
PI Jennie Talldeer investigates an explosion on a construction site which was an Indian burial ground. Indian activists are suspected, but in fact the culprits are evil spirits. Talldeer, an Osage Indian, has to resort to her training as a shaman.
Author
Series
Founding of Valdemar volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as "empty"...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Talia, a runaway Holdgirl, is chosen to become a trainee herald in the queen's elite guard and to care for young Princess Elspeth, heir to the throne. The sequels are Arrow's Flight (1987) and Arrow's Fall (1988). The author's Last Herald Mage series (Magic's Pawn, 1989; Magic's Price, 1990; and Magic's Promise, 1990), and her Mage Winds trilogy (Winds of Fate, 1991; Winds of Change, 1992; and Winds of Fury, 1993) are set in the same world. The Black...
Author
Series
Bardic universe. Bardic voices volume 2
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
While traveling the open road together, Robin, a gypsy bard, and Kestrel, heir to a throne he does not want, try to tame a killer ghost and also foil a plot to drive all music from the land.
Author
Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 44
Description
"Three writers (the others are Eric Flint and Dave Freer) collaborate on this massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world in which Catholicism is factionalized, the Hohenstauffens instead of the Habsburgs rule the Holy Roman Empire, magic works, and the grand duke of Lithuania is trying to use that magic against his enemy, the emperor."--Booklist
Author
Series
Description
Good and evil fairy factions continue to battle over the fate of Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, in this lighthearted, historically detailed third installment in the Scepter'd Isle series. To prevent the 14-year-old red-haired princess from ascending the throne, the Dark Sidhe, or Unseleighe, plan to destroy her benevolent Seleighe guardians, Lord Denoriel and his twin sister, Aleneil. Without them to guide her, Elizabeth might slip up, misbehave...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Description
Eric Banyon, a student at Juilliard, has his hands full dealing with a visiting Healer, a banjo-playing Bard, his daughter, a dragon, and school, but now he has to save the world from Aerune mac Audelaine, an evil elf lord who blames humans for the death of his beloved.
13) Hunter
Author
Series
Hunter (Mercedes Lackey) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"A teenage girl leaves home to join the legendary Hunters, who protect the people from the terrifying monsters that have overrun their world"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 43
Description
Kellen Tawadon, son the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for women were unfit to practice magic-memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic-or did they find him? The three slim...
15) The fire rose
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 1
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Destitute, medieval scholar Rosiland Hawkins accepts a strange job offer as a governess in San Francisco. There are no children however, only the man who wrote her, a man she never sees. Jason is an Adept and an Alchemist who is stuck in wolf form after a bungled transformation.
16) Foundation
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world, a thirteen-year-old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald. Thrust into the center of a legend in the making, Magpie discovers talents he never knew he had--and witnesses the founding of the great Heralds' Collegium.
17) One good knight
Author
Series
Five hundred kingdoms volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Description
When George, the Good Knight, arrives to save Princess Andromeda from the dragon for whom she is to be a virgin sacrifice, he does not exactly defeat the dragon, and he and the princess must join forces to find the dragon's lair and destroy it. Traditionally, marauding dragons are soothed only by a virgin sacrifice. And so practical-minded Princess Andromeda reluctantly volunteers to do her duty, only asking for a sword to defend herself. Well, her...
18) Elite
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Joy wants nothing more than to live and Hunt in Apex City without a target on her back. But a dangerous new mission assigned by her uncle, the city's Prefect, may make that impossible. In addition to her new duties as one of the Elite, Joy is covertly running patrols in the abandoned tunnels and storm sewers under Apex Central. With her large pack of magical hounds, she can fight the monsters breaking through the barriers with the strength of three...
Author
Series
Five hundred kingdoms volume 5
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
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...
20) Winds of change
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Description
The remarkable land of Valdemar, the kingdom protected by its Heralds--men and women gifted with extraordinary mind powers--aided and served by their mysterious Companions--horselike beings who know the many secrets of Valdemar's magical heritage.