• Above The Veil

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:41 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.05 Fraction:2.05★ Rating:41 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.05 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.0541%
    Above the Veil (Book 4 – The Seventh Tower)
    Garth Nix
    LucasFilm & Scholastic, 2001
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0439176859
    246 pages

    Synopsis

    Back from Aenir, Tal must team up with the Freefolk, restless Underfolk who want to overthrow the Chosen’s rule in order to seek the truth about their world. He is joined by a dangerous ally, Crow, and again climbs the Red Tower to free the Keeper of the Red Keystone. Meanwhile, Milla has made her decision to go back to the Icecarls and be judged or give herself to the ice.

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    Aenir

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    Aenir (Book 3 – The Seventh Tower)
    Garth Nix
    LucasFilm & Scholastic, 2001
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0439176840
    233 pages

    Synopsis

    Tal must save Gref, his mother, and try to find his father. That information is only held in one place, the Codex, a machine invented by the Chosen to collect and relay information. In order to retrieve the Codex Tal and Milla must go to Aenir, the dangerous world of spirits. In this world completely alien to Milla, and vastly dangerous even to Tal, their journey is fraught with perils narrowly escaping death many times over with the help of some odd allies.

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    Castle

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    Castle (Book 2 – The Seventh Tower)
    Garth Nix
    LucasFilm & Scholastic, 2000
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0439176832
    215 pages

    Synopsis

    Tal and Milla are taken to the Ruin Ship, a giant metal ship, which looks exactly like the bone ships the Icecarls steer around their ice world. Here the Shield Maidens have their base. Learning more about the world of the Icecarls and their ways, Tal starts to see that there’s more to his world than he originally thought. Once Milla’s wounds have healed, the two must take a dangerous path up the mountain to get back to the Castle.

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    Airborn

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:58 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.9 Fraction:2.9★ Rating:58 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.9 Fraction:2.9½ Rating:58 Star Piece:0.9 Fraction:2.9☆ Rating:58 Fraction:2.9☆ Rating:58 Fraction:2.958%
    Airborn (Book 1 – Airborn Series)
    Kenneth Oppel
    Eos, 2004
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0060531800
    355 pages
    Honor Book – Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature (ALA)

    Synopsis

    On a routine flight aboard the cruise airship the Aurora, Matt Cruse, its cabin boy, spots a fledgling hot air balloon heading toward them. Rescuing the pilot just before his inevitable death, Matt thinks nothing of the old man’s ramblings about some beautiful and unknown flying creatures.

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    Sabriel

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:68 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4★ Rating:68 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4★ Rating:68 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4½ Rating:68 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4☆ Rating:68 Fraction:3.468%
    Sabriel (Book 1 – The Abhorsen Trilogy)
    Garth Nix
    EOS, 1995
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0064471837
    491 pages

    Synopsis

    Sabriel is a 17-year-old girl who is finishing her last year at Wyverly College, a private school in a place known as Ancelstierre, a world based on science. However, she is the daughter of the Abhorsen, a powerful man in the magical world of the Old Kingdom who works as a necromancer to fight the dead who seek to return to Life.

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    The Fall

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:41 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.05 Fraction:2.05★ Rating:41 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.05 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.0541%
    The Fall (Book 1 – The Seventh Tower)
    Garth Nix
    LucasFilm & Scholastic, 2000
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0439176824
    195 pages

    Synopsis

    Tal’s father is missing and presumed dead, and now he must find a way to get a Sunstone in order to save his family. However, little does he know that this quest is not as easy as it seems as there are forces at work against him.

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