Tamora Pierce
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Aly fails to foresee the dangers that await as she uses her magic to safeguard Dova and her younger siblings, despite knowing that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are defeated.
2) First test
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Series
Protector of the small volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.
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Song of the lioness volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
On her first tour as a knight errant, Alanna assumes a position of influence with a fierce desert tribe, makes some changes in the role of women in the society, and continues her own emotional development.
Author
Series
Circle reforged volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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Description
On a visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old Sandry must rely on her childhood friends and fellow mages, Daja, Tris, and Briar, despite the distance that has grown between them.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure. "From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight." And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn...
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Series
Song of the lioness volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Alanna continues to create her own life as a female warrior when she and new companions journey to the Roof of the World seeking the powerful Dominion Jewel, perhaps the last hope of saving her country from dissension and hostile magic.
8) Magic steps
Author
Series
Circle opens volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When drawn into the investigation of murders perpetrated on a powerful family in Summersea, Sandry and her student Pasco undertake the dangerous mission of entrapping the invisible killers.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal. "I don't want to fall in love. I just want to be a warrior maiden." Still disguised as a boy, Alanna becomes a squire to none other than the prince of the realm. Prince Jonathan is not only Alanna's liege lord, he is also her best friend -- and one of...
10) Terrier
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.
11) Melting Stones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Residents of the island of Starns send for help from Winding Circle temple, and when prickly green mage Rosethorn and young stone mage trainee Evvy respond, Evvy finds that the problem is with a long-dormant volcano and tries to use her talents to avert the looming destruction.
12) The Emperor Mage
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
When she is sent as part of the delegation from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak, fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's dying birds.
13) Bloodhound
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
While in the mystical realms of the gods along with Nunair, Daine learns the secrets of her past and the implications for her future as she and Nunair are compelled to return to the mortal world of Tortall to help fight against the immortals.
15) Briar's Book
Author
Series
Circle of magic (Tamora Pierce) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Briar, a young mage-in-training, and his teacher Rosethorn must use their magic to fight a deadly plague that is ravaging Summersea.
16) Sandry's book
Author
Series
Circle of magic (Tamora Pierce) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic.
17) Page
Author
Series
Protector of the small volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Keladry of Mindelan continues her training to become a squire with the aid of a new maid, the support of her friends, interference from some other pages, and some serious, even dangerous opposition.
18) Daja's Book
Author
Series
Circle of magic (Tamora Pierce) volume 3
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
While at Gold Ridge castle to the north of Winding Circle, Daja and the three other mages-in-training who have become her friends develop their unique magical talents as they try to prevent a devastating forest fire from consuming everything in its path.
19) Tris's Book
Author
Series
Circle of magic (Tamora Pierce) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
With the defenses of Winding Circle Temple seriously weakened by an earthquake, Tris and her fellow mages-in-training try to join their different magic powers to protect the Winding Circle community from a pirate attack.
Author
Series
Immortals (Tamora Pierce) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall.