Simon Jones
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Series
Unwanteds volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.