Central Skagit Library District

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. "Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon...

Separated when the Fangs of Drang invade Ban Rona, the three Igiby siblings face sea dragons, Stranders, Ridgerunners, Cloven, and more in their final, epic battle.

Captured and enslaved by the corsair stoat Badrang, young mouse warrior Martin vows to end the evil beast's plundering and killing.

When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when...

"On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person....

As Serafina uncovers more clues about the talismans, Neela ventures into a sea dragon's nest, and Ling learns the identity of their foe.

Continues the adventures of Call and his friends in the Magisterium.

Ellie is a rebellious princess who is no longer hiding her real identity. Lottie is her Portman, wishing that she could shield Ellie from the threat of Leviathan. Jamie is Ellie's Partizan, a lifelong bodyguard sworn to protect the princess at any cost- but has mysteriously disappeared. Not all of the trio have made it back to Rosewood Hall. Can they be reunited? And at what cost? With the crown at risk, the stakes have never been higher ...

Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, along with their friend Calvin O'Keefe, set off on a series of adventures in which they try to rescue Meg and Charles Wallace's father from the Dark Thing, travel inside Charles Wallace's body, and stop a nuclear war.

"Real life and fairy tales collide in Never After The Thirteenth Fairy book one in the Chronicles of Never After. Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little California town. But one day, when Filomena is walking home from her favorite bookstore, something finally happens... Filomena is being followed by none other than Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in Never After, a series of fairy tale books she loves. Jack delivers the shocking...