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21) Sky in the deep
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan, but when faced with her brother's betrayal, and driven by a growing love for her brother's friend Fiske, she attempts to unite the two clans.
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Series
Saga of the unfated volume 1
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series. Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. Freya’s dreams abruptly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When young Halli Sveinsson plays a trick on Ragnor of the House of Hakonsson, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever alter his destiny, forcing him to leave home and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may finally be his match.
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How to train your dragon volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A dragon rebellion is coming-filled with the meanest, nastiest dragons in the Archipelago. Razor-wings, Tonguetwisters, and Vampire Ghouldeaths are attaching Vikings and seem to be seeking one soul in particular: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third! Only a King can save them...and only a champion with all of the King's Lost Things can be King. In his adventures, Hiccup has collected quite a few "things" himself. But can a scrawny Viking save the...
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How to train your dragon volume 6
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To save his dragon from being banished, Hiccup must sneak into the library and steal the Vikings' most sacred book.
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How to train your dragon volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero.
It is the Doomsday of Yule. At the end of this day, either the humans or the dragons will face extinction. Alvin the Treacherous is about to be crowned the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America.
Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers-including the...
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Shane Scully novels volume 2
Description
LAPD Sergeant Shane Scully discovers that his friend and colleague Jody Dean--who supposedly committed suicide two years previously--has joined a destructive group of rogue cops called the Vikings, who are determined to wreak havoc on the LAPD.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago, and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
34) Dubliners
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In this collection of masterful stories, steeped in realism, James Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization.
35) Viking Bay
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Description
"Kay Hamilton, the beautiful, fearless, and audacious DEA agent who went rogue in Rosarito Beach, has paid the price for her subversive behavior. As Viking Bay begins, Kay has been fired by the DEA and needs a job to support herself and her teenage daughter. Kay moves to Washington D.C. and connects with the Callahan Group, a shadowy quasi-governmental agency with an enigmatic agenda. For her first mission, Kay is told only a few facts: that the U.S....
37) Of mice and men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
Description
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Appears on list
Description
This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Description
Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history--explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What...
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Books 9–16 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series!
These eight titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the chapter-book series as a tool to promote reading, as even the most reluctant readers want to know where the Magic Tree House will take the brother-and-sister team next.
In books 9–12,...
These eight titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the chapter-book series as a tool to promote reading, as even the most reluctant readers want to know where the Magic Tree House will take the brother-and-sister team next.
In books 9–12,...