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Author
Series
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The Masked Man possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can twins Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Folklore: Adapted Fairy Tales and Rhymes
Children's Folklore: Adapted Fairy Tales and Rhymes
Description
The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.
5) Inkspell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Now thirteen, Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.
Author
Series
How to catch-- volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
During story time the Gingerbread man comes alive, so the children make haste and quickly give chase but he runs too fast and is helped from a storybook cast.
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Goddess Girls
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Girls
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Girls
Description
After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
The four princes erroneously dubbed Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales form an unlikely team when a witch threatens the whole kingdom. Includes "Extras" at the end of the book.
Author
Series
Ever After High (Shannon Hale) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of Legacy Day, Raven Queen, reluctant leader of the Rebels, and Apple White, head of the Royals, work together when an Ever After High student, Maddie, gets in trouble, threatening all of their Happily Ever Afters.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A successful writer, Madeleine, creates a character, Edward, and begins to imagine his life. He, too, is an author. Edward is in love with a woman, Willow, who's married to a man Edward loathes, and who loathes him, but he and Willow stay close friends. She's an artist. As Madeleine develops the plot, Edward attends a gallery show where a scummy critic is flung down a flight of fire stairs ... murdered. Madeleine, still stressed from her miscarriages...
Author
Series
Half upon a time series volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jack, of the village of Giant's Hand, is now accompanied by a prince as he continues trying to help a reluctant princess find her family, while also attempting to save a city full of fairies from a nameless curse.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At Ever After High, a boarding school for the sons and daughters of fairytale characters, Darling Charming is expected to excel in Damsel-In-Distressing class, but she yearns for adventure and envies her brothers, Daring and Dexter, who are learning to joust in Hero Training class"--
Author
Series
Half upon a time series volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Knights, fairy godmothers, giants and beanstalks--all of these and more fill the pages of the conclusion to the Half Upon a Time trilogy"--
16) Half upon a time
Author
Series
Half upon a time series volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Read Alikes: Ever After High
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Children's Read Alikes: Ever After High
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Description
In the village of Giant's Hand Jack's grandfather has been pushing him to find a princess and get married, so when a young lady falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says "Punk Princess," and she tells Jack that her grandmother, who looks suspiciously like the long-missing Snow White, has been kidnapped, Jack decides to help her.
17) Into the woods
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Pursued by the sinister Dr. DeWilde and his ravenous wolves, three sisters--Storm, the inheritor of a special musical pipe, the elder Aurora, and the baby Any--flee into the woods and begin a treacherous journey filled with many dangers as they try to find a way to defeat their pursuer and keep him from taking the pipe and control of the entire land.
18) Flunked
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School, where all of the teachers are former villains, including the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.
19) Dearest
Author
Series
Woodcutter sisters volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Friday Woodcutter, a kind and loving seamstress, stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday's palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he's her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day. Can Friday's unique magic somehow break the spell?"--
20) Cinderella's rat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One of the rats that was turned into a coachman by Cinderella's fairy godmother tells his story.
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