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Author
Series
Discworld volume 35
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job"--
Author
Series
Discworld volume 34
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
Author
Series
Discworld volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A zany bunch of futuristic actors--Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage salesman; and Gaspode, the talking dog--embarks on an epic movie project.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Mort
Author
Series
Discworld volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: Death comes to everyone eventually on Discworld. And now he's come to Mort with an offer the young man can't refuse. (No, literally, can't refuse since being dead isn't exactly compulsory.) Actually, it's a pretty good deal. As Death's apprentice, Mort will have free board and lodging. He'll get use of the company horse. And he won't have to take any time off for family funerals. But despite the obvious perks, young Mort is about...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
You've heard of Faust... This is Eric. There's a difference. Eric is fourteen, lives on the famed and magical Discworld, and is the first ever demonology hacker. Fortunately, he doesn't succeed in raising any devils, but he does raise Rincewind (the most incompetent wizard in the universe) and the Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory). When Eric turns them loose on an unprotected world, the idea is that Rincewind will grant him his...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 12
Language
English
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Description
Be careful what you wish for...
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant
...9) Going postal
Author
Series
Discworld volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into . . . a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered...
10) Equal rites
Author
Series
Discworld volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: Every world has its rules-even a flat one carried by four elephants riding on a giant turtle. That's why a dying wizard is searching for an eighth son of an eighth son to bestow his wizardly powers upon before meeting Death in six minutes. Unfortunately it is quickly discovered-though not quite quickly enough-that the newborn babe the wizard anoints just before bidding the Discworld adieu is, in reality, a girl! What's done cannot be undone-despite...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A slapstick comedy on a battle between witches and vampires in the fantasy land of Discworld. The action serves as a vehicle for satirizing various aspects of our life.
12) The long utopia
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. And new challenges emerge. Now an elderly and catankerous AI, Lobsang is living with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's determined to lead a normal life in New Springfield--they even adopt a child. But there are rumors, strange sightings in the sky....
13) Pyramids
Author
Series
Discworld volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magic and humor are combined in the whimsical story of the hard life of a teenage pharaoh who does not have a clue about what he is supposed to do as the new ruler of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld--especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire's current...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pratchett cheerfully takes readers on an exuberant tale of mystery and invention. Along the way, he skewers everything from monarchy to fascism, as well as communism and capitalism, oil wealth and ethnic identities, Russian plays, immigration, condoms, and evangelical Christianity—in short, everything worth talking about." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Elephants, werewolves, and ruby tights (oh
...16) Maskerade
Author
Series
Discworld volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The phantom in the bone-white mask who has haunted the Ankh-Morpork Opera House for years, is thought to be a benign presence until he starts killing performers backstage. Country girl Perdita X. hides in a chorus and has someone mime her aria solos so she may dodge the killing craze. She also uses this tactic to hide from her witchy relatives Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax who would rather she join their ranks. It all makes for a crazy and humorous...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof....
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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
19) Feet of clay
Author
Series
Discworld volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is fantasy served with a twist of Monty Python, parody that works by never taking itself too seriously." —Publishers Weekly
Murder! Mahem! Bacon sandwiches! People are dying suspiciously in Ankh-Morpork, and Sam Vimes of the City Watch will find the truth. Another brilliant and hilarious Discworld adventure from beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett
For Commander Sam
...20) Wintersmith
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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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