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Discworld volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Affirmative action in fantasy land, starring Captain Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork city police. He investigates a series of murders, while having to put up with a new hiring policy. Police can no longer discriminate against trolls, dwarfs, or female werewolves.
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Discworld volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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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. By the author of Interesting Times.
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Discworld volume 4
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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory.
As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company...
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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.
5) Reaper man
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Discworld volume 11
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They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.
But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH's...
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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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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...
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Discworld volume 12
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Discworld's own version of the three witches--Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg--grab their broomsticks and journey to Genua to save Princess Emberella from an overzealous fairy godmother.
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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.
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Discworld volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Brutha is a novice who is content with growing melons for the temple monks until the great god, Om, manifests himself in the form of a tortoise and announces that Brutha is to become the chosen one.
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Discworld volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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"Something is seriously amiss at Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning."--BOOK JACKET. "A professor is missing - and not just any professor. The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography. Also the University Librarian, who transmuted (you know how things change!) into an ape (a handy configuration for a librarian, don't you think?) so long ago that no one exactly remembers his name,...
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Discworld volume 18
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When Discworld's opera house is found to be haunted, a trio of witches is summoned to flush out the unwanted ghost but the results only seem to complicate matters.
13) Lords and ladies
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Discworld volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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A comic tale about people blinded by the superficial. The citizens of a fantasy world let themselves be seduced by the chic and glamour of elves, only to learn that elves are very nasty beings. By the author of Small Gods.
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Discworld volume 16
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A satirical comedy on the subject of death. It begins when Death decides to take a holiday and turns over the shop to his granddaughter, Susan, with the assistance of Death of Rats, a rat skeleton. Unfortunately, Susan does not have the stomach for such a heartless trade and this threatens the success of the establishment. By the author of The Light Fantastic.
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Discworld volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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The Discworld is moving towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, and its only possible saviour is Rincewind.
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Discworld volume 1
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A slightly disorganized and somewhat naive interplanetary tourist named Twosome joins up with a bumbling wizard and embarks on a chaotic voyage through a world filled with monsters, dragons, heroes, and knaves.
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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.
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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.
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Discworld volume 8
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Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all ....
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