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Author
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse, unknown dangers. Finally, it was Bilbo--alone and unaided--who had to confront the great dragon Smaug, the terror of an entire countryside...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Weaves together a ... behind-the-scenes look at life during the Civil War and a ... tale of one misfit's odyssey to find his place in the world. Discovered at age four by P.T. Barnum, Tom Thumb soon finds himself traveling internationally, sitting on the laps of the queens of Europe, and entertaining the masses ... After marrying Lavinia Warren, Tom and wife are hosted at the White House by President Lincoln. With the country at war, Tom and Lavinia...
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in this unusual love story Little Little La Belle isn't redundant. She's a dwarf-a beautiful blond heiress who lives a pampered existence in the New York town named after her family. With her eighteenth birthday approaching, her parents want to marry Little Little off to the perfect man. Enter Sydney Cinnamon. Orphaned young, he went on to become one of America's most famous dwarfs. The pint-size TV performer could...
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
Description
"Continues the epic story of the war between humankind and the elves--and of ordinary people becoming legendary heroes. It introduces a set of new characters: the dwarves, whose magical weaponcraft could decide the war. It's up to our heroes to win over the dwarves to the side of humankind or else lose the war forever" -- Provided by publisher.
5) Gauntlgrym
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Drizzt joins Bruenor on his quest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym, but before they even get close, another drow and dwarf pair -- Jarlaxle and Athrogate -- stumbles across it first -- and set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting people of the city of Neverwinter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st North American ed.
Physical Desc
769 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tungdil and the dwarves' victory over the Nod'onn is interrupted by an invading army of Orcs that has been reinforced by near-supernatural powers, a situation that is further compounded by the dark lord Tion's plotting descendants.
7) Going bovine
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
10) Fools errant
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Warner books ed.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
12) The orc king
Author
Series
Transitions volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) Neverwinter
Author
Series
Neverwinter volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Free for the first time in almost one hundred years, Drizzt feels not only relief, but guilt, and this makes him vulnerable to the wiles of the elf Dahlia, his newest companion.
14) Rise of the king
Author
Series
Companions codex volume II
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows dwarf king Bruenor Battlehammer and his violent feud with the orc kingdom of Many Arrows, as they seek to take advantage of the Sundering chaos.
15) Watersmeet
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Abisina escapes the escalating violence, prejudice, and religious fervor of her home town, Vranille, and sets out with a dwarf, Haret, to seek the father she has never met in a place called Watersmeet.
16) Snow White
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the enchanting tale of Snow White, the princess who is cast out of her castle and who takes a bite of a ruby-red apple. But set in Japan"--Back cover.