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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"This story ... is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
3) The magician
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled-a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault's Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the...
6) Quicksilver
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Series
Language
English
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"Historical romance novel featuring the Arcane Society, second in The Looking Glass Trilogy"-- $c Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the U.S. sends in the SIGMA force. The tragedy is more than a case of arson; someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedral's golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Magi, the legendary Three Kings.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in Chicago. Unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. Desolate with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a job as a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco. A boom town in the 1850s, in 1905 San Francisco is the center of culture in the new West, and perhaps...
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
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