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1) Uprooted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The...
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 1
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
An adventure story of two brothers & two sisters who enter into the magical world of Narnia when they cross through an enchanted wardrobe closet, finding themselves in a land filled with talking animals & mythical creatures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
On seeing her portrait, a servant girl modelling for an artist in 17th century Holland realizes she is ugly. But the portrait opens her eyes to the world of art, she becomes a painter and is transformed by her work so that when a prince charming appears she is no longer ugly.
5) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
An adult retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an absurd reflection of modern life.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This is a collection of free translations from the ancient Greek poet Callimachus, whose surviving work includes the Aitia, a narrative elegy; the Iambi, short poems on occasional themes; and the Hecale, a small-scale epic. The poet and critic Stephanie Burt has written contemporary adaptations of what she calls "Callimachus's lyric, epigrammatic, and narrative genius for our times." These are not literal translations for students of Greek, but instead...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple, brief retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
10) Aesop's fables
Publisher
Barrons
Pub. Date
©1989.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of twenty traditional fables including "The Hares And The Frogs," "The Cat And The Mouse," and "The Wolf And The Heron.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ancient Aesop swings into the twenty-first century in this bright new collection of twenty-one favorite fables. Here are all the classic tales: the greedy dog who loses his bone to his own reflection in the water; the little mouse who pays back the grand lion in a big, big way; and the shepherd's son who thinks it's a good joke to cry "Wolf!" just to see the villagers come running. And, of course, there's that arrogant hare and his racing partner,...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 unleashed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. Experience the bestselling first adventure of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea...
Author
Series
The Princess tales volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's "Puddocky," a young maiden who has been transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy relies on her newly honed magical abilities to charm a prince into marriage.
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden It's Zinnia Gray's...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie desperately wants to get away from her stepmother's jealousy, and believes escape is her only chance to be happy. Then a young man named Gabe arrives from Hagenheim Castle, claiming she is betrothed to his older brother, and everything twists upside down. This could be Sophie's one chance at freedom -- but can she trust another person to keep her safe? Gabe defied his parents Rose and Wilhelm by going to find Sophie, and now he believes they...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter's daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the aging bachelor her mother has chosen for her -- a bloated, disgusting merchant who makes Rose feel ill. When Lord Hamlin, the future duke, is injured, it is Rose who must tend to him....
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