Posts Tagged ‘dragons’
Across the Great Divide
Scholastic Press, 2011
Fantasy
ISBN: 0545033438
352 pages
Synopsis
Eff is an unlucky thirteenth child – her twin brother, Lan, is a powerful seventh son of a seventh son. And yet, Eff is the one who saved the day for the settlements west of the Great Barrier. Her unique ways of doing magic and seeing the world, and her fascination with the magical creatures and land in the Great Plains push Eff to work toward joining an expedition heading west. But things are changing on the frontier. There are new professors of magic for Eff and Lan to learn to work with. There’s tension between William and his father. And there are new threats on the frontier and at home. To help, Eff must travel beyond the Barrier, and come to terms with her magical abilities—and those of her brother, to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers
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The Hobbit – Reviewing Classics
George Allen & Unwin, 1937
Fantasy
ISBN: 0618968636
320 pages
Synopsis
Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort of cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon and rather unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he’s not entirely thrilled. Encountering ruthless trolls, beastly orcs, gigantic spiders, and hungry wolves, Bilbo discovers within himself astonishing strength and courage. And at the ultimate confrontation with the fearsome dragon Smaug, the hobbit will brave the dangers of dark and dragon fire alone and unaided. …
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The Farthest Shore – Reviewing Classics
Atheneum Books, 1972
Fantasy
ISBN: 141650964X
272 Pages
Synopsis
Magic is disappearing from the outer edges of the world of Earth Sea, and it’s soon apparent that a great darkness is overtaking the land. People are hurtled into hopeless and despair, and many are losing their lives in consecutive drug trips where they seek to find the master who can grant eternal life, only to soon die from brain damage and starvation. …
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Thirteenth Child
Scholastic Press, 2009
Fantasy
ISBN: 054503342X
320 pages
Synopsis
Eff was born the thirteenth child in a magical family, her brother Lan, born fourteenth and the seventh son of a seventh son. This means that Lan will have natural amazing magical powers, and Eff will be doomed to bring only bad things to the people around her. However, her parents believe that it will be better for the twins not to grow up hearing such things, so they move their family out to the frontier where their father will work to be a professor of magic. Although things have gotten better, Eff can’t help but believe that there’s something wrong with her. She must learn to be herself and like who she is despite the fears that she keeps hidden in order to uncover a deadly adversary and save the people of the frontier. …
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The Tombs of Atuan – Reviewing Classics
Atheneum Books, 1971
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 1416509623
192 pages
Newbery Honor Book
Synopsis
Tenar, the priestess to the ancient and long held worship of the Nameless Ones, is taken as a child and raised as the one who will guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan for her entire life. Thought to be the reincarnation of the one priestess who lives and is reincarnated in every generation, Tenar is raised as someone who is both feared and revered by her peers and authority figures, even at a young age. …
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Brisingr
Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN:0375826726
668 pages
Synopsis
Eragon and Roran slay the Ra’zac, rescuing Roran’s betrothed in the process. Afterward they split up and Eragon heads to the kingdom of the dwarves in order to assist in securing a new king that favors the Varden and will help in the war against the Empire. …
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Eragon – Film
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 2006
Fantasy
ASIN: B000NA28I4
Synopsis
The tales of the Dragon Riders is a story of myth long gone now that the Riders have been decimated for nearly a century, and Galbatorix has been ruling the Empire and oppressing the people. However, the most unexpected turn takes place when a mysterious glowing rock is discovered by Eragon, a fifteen-year-old teen who lives on a poor farm in the north of the Empire. Soon, the rock hatches into a dragon making him a Rider, and Eragon finds himself in a world of magic and evil, the only free Rider alive and the new hope for the oppressed peoples of the Empire. …
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