Kristin Cashore
1) Graceling
Author
Series
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
3) Bitterblue
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
563 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.
4) Fire
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
5) Winterkeep
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
517 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Queen Bitterblue of Monsea has been doing the hard work of rebuilding her kingdom for nearly five years when she first learns about the magical land to east where people and animals perform feats greater than even the most impressive Grace. When her envoy's ships drown, Bitterblue takes off on a diplomatic mission with her most trusted advisors, while politicians in Monsea consider what could happen if the Queen were to disappear as well.
6) Seasparrow
Author
Series
Graceling Realm book volume 5
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
607 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with the world's only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon, she makes an unexpected discovery about one of the ship's crew, but before she can unravel the mystery, storms drive their ship off course, wrecking them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent.
Author
Publisher
Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
257 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal banquet. Now she acts as her uncles enforcer, traveling the kingdom and threatening those who dare oppose him. But everything changes when she meets Po, a foreign prince Graced with combat skills who is searching for the truth about his...