Paul Stewart
1) Ya Wanna Go?
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United States Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee Paul Stewart is a tough-as-rawhide sports legend with a heart of gold and tireless will to survive.
The heir apparent to a legacy in sports, Stewy was raised in a family that tracked the seasons by which sport was being played. The grandson of Stanley Cup-winning coach Bill Stewart, Sr., Stewy's road to professional hockey should have been smoother. In his long-anticipated autobiography, Stewy recounts the...
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'Let's play remembering,' says Hedgehog. But Rabbit isn't very keen - 'You know what always happens,' he says. And sure enough the friends remember events entirely differently, whether it be an acorn rolling competition or crossing a stream ('You fell in!' says Hedgehog. 'I was picking up a water snail,' says Rabbit. 'I dropped it when you grabbed me.')
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From the creators of the Edge Chronicles comes the thrilling conclusion to the epic saga of Wyrmeweald! The bone trail litters the barren lands of the wyrmeweald with the remains of dragon-like wyrmes, fortune-hunting kith bandits, and wyrme-protecting kin assassins alike-all viciously slaughtered in the gruesome quest for gold and power. Micah and his friends have battled tirelessly against the kith bandits to protect the winged wyrmes. But the kith...
5) Bloodhoney
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English
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From the creators of the Edge Chronicles comes the second installment in the fantastic tale of Wyrmeweald! Winter is a dangerous time in the wyrmeweald. Once a magnificent wilderness, the home of the dragon-like wyrmes has become an icy wasteland. Brutal battles rage between the evil kith, intent on ravaging all that they can, and the wyrme-friendly kin. Young Micah is safe in a winter den, sheltered from the intense cold, with kin Eli and the...
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From the creators of the internationally bestselling Edge Chronicles comes an epic story of dragons! The wyrmeweald is a hostile place, an arid wasteland where man is both hunter and hunted, and where the dragon-like wyrmes reign supreme. Seventeen-year-old Micah enters the wyrmeweald intent on stealing a wyrme egg to sell for a bounty. With the riches such an egg will bring-returner's wealth-Micah can go home to a life of luxury, and win the hand...
7) The State of Northern Ireland and the Democratic Deficit: Between Sectarianism and Neo-Liberalism
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English
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Written to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the GFA, this book argues that the seeds of recent problems were sown in the 1998 agreement. The fiasco of a Renewable Heating Incentive that overpaid participants, the lingering whiff of corruption, communities in crisis and growing poverty are all symptoms of the inherent failings of the supposed settlement.
Current difficulties are more than teething problems arising from the transition from...
8) Stormchaser
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.
11) Fergus Crane
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Far-flung adventures volume 1
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David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.
12) Freeglader
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Edge chronicles volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 9
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.
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David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.
15) Corby Flood
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Far-flung adventures volume 2
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.
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Knight's story volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
In his continuing adventures, the unbonded knight Free Lance--with the help of his new squire, Wormrick--tries to save a lady of the court from a disastrous marriage by defying a treacherous lord who wants him to intentionally lose a jousting tournament.
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Barnaby Grimes volume 2
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
Weird and evil events at a London boarding school provide messenger Barnaby Grimes an opportunity to test his budding knowledge of the ancient Chinese art of yinchido, in which one focuses on silences and empty spaces.
19) The immortals
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 10
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
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English
Description
Nate Quarter, a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, must flee for his life when the mine sargeant wants him killed, while elsewhere, a storm unlike any ever seen is building.