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Author
Publisher
Dorchester
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Young Tizra and her twin brother Tracell find their world abruptly changed when their father is unexpectedly called to fight in a war which promises to last much longer than the usual three-day skirmish. Their mother - the village healer - enlists her children to assist her in caring for the many refugees left wounded and homeless by the conflict. Inspired by her mother, Tizra learns never to surrender hope even in a time of fear and uncertainty.
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 3
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Filled with adventure and wonder, Acorna's Peoplecontinues the enthralling saga of Acorna, the beautiful, brave, and kindhearted creature known as the Unicorn Girl."Welcome Home, Linyaari Child!"
With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new home. The legendary resting place of the...
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 4
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Acorna, the "unicorn girl" has made peace with her Linyaari past, and aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor she is finally free. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons Acorna and her companions to a nearby planet. For among the myraid wonders of this world of sentient plants and intoxicating perfumes are unmistakable signs that everythng Acorna holds dear is in peril. A promise of world-shattering devastation is in the celestial...
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 5
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The homeworld Acorna has never known was horribly scarred in the brutal attack by the cold-blooded Khleevi, but the Linyaari -- the unicorn girl's gentle, spiritual race -- live on. Now is the time for healing and rebuilding, for restoring the natural beauty corrupted by the savage insectile oppressors. But Acorna's Linyaari friends and colleagues begin mysteriously disappearing soon after work gets under way, among them her beloved Aari. And her...
Author
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
After the death of wise old Mangan, the Regent of Esphania, many of the regent's skills and qualities seem to have been transferred to his beautiful and intelligent cat, Niffy, who at once attaches herself to the new ruler, Prince Jamas. When the king of a neighboring kingdom seems keen to forge an alliance with Jamas by allowing the prince to marry his niece, the real danger is Yasmin, the wicked queen wife, who poisons everyone she dislikes or suspects...
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 2
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
'I must find my own kind!' Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn, and her 'funny' feet and hands. And, she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness. But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her 'Uncle' Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected,...
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 1
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Something's Alive In There!"
She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the...
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 6
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari -- one that has led Aari, Acorna's beloved lifemate, on a dangerous journey from which he may never return.
Setting off on a quest to find Aari, Acorna and her friends -- Captain Becker, Mac, Nadhari, and RK -- are forced to crash land on the beautiful...
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 7
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Aari has returned! Now he and his lifemate, the brave and beautiful Acorna, can finish rebuilding their once-decimated homeworld. Yet Aari's travels through time have left him oddly changed, and he barely remembers Acorna or their love. And as Aari's actions turn more sinister, Acorna must shift her attention to stopping the destruction of innocents by a vicious criminal. It is precisely the sort of weakness and confusion the dreaded Khleevi have...
Author
Series
Acorna's children volume 1
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl.
Now the exciting saga of the next generation begins.
First WarningKhorii, daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her...
11) Dragon's kin
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 22
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
12) Sky dragons
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 30
Publisher
Del Rey Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Xhinna, the first female Weyrleader, and her group of young dragonriders struggle to rebuild the decimated dragon population and protect the world from a deadly alien spore by collecting dragon eggs and protecting baby dragons from predators and saboteurs.
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 18
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A tale of dragons in the fantasy land of Pern and the boy who communicates with them by telepathy. He is Rob, a musical genius, and when he grows up he leads the dragons and their riders in battle against an evil man who denies people education.
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 21
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
15) Freedom's choice
Author
Series
Freedom series (Anne McCaffrey) volume 2
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Abandoned in space as a baby and rescured by gruff human asteriod miners, Acorna thinks she is the last of her own kind until she finds her true people at last,and she sets out to right an unspeakable wrong against them.\Known as the Unicorn Girl, Acorna must strive to right an unspeakable wrong and defeat an enemy even crueler than the Khleevi. Along the way, she will at last uncover the ancient link between her people, the Linyaari, and the spacefaring...
Author
Series
Freedom series (Anne McCaffrey) volume 3
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Acorna's children volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
19) Third watch
Author
Series
Acorna's children volume 3
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Acorna's rebellious daughter risks everything in order to protect the universe from a mysterious plague-spreading enemy, an effort that is compromised by threats closer to home.
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