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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Description
"Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering...
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Mother Ducks eggs hatch, one little duckling is clumsy and noisyand very ugly! And no matter how hard he tries to fit in, the other animals just laugh at him. Will the ugly duckling ever find a friend?
Author
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a gorgeous, full-color fairy-tale treasury.
Dear Reader, you hold in your hands a very special book that contains more than thirty-five classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, plus your very own survival guide to the Land of Stories. If you notice the pages glowing, followed by an inviting humming noise, don't be afraid! That is just the book's magic. But whatever you...
Dear Reader, you hold in your hands a very special book that contains more than thirty-five classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, plus your very own survival guide to the Land of Stories. If you notice the pages glowing, followed by an inviting humming noise, don't be afraid! That is just the book's magic. But whatever you...
5) Catkin
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
When a tiny, magical cat carelessly allows a young girl to be captured by the Little People, he must confront her captors and solve three cunning riddles in order to rescue her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"I will give you three days," the little man said. "If by the end of that time you find out my name, then you shall keep your child." An impossible task, a terrible bargain, something most precious at stake. Paul Galdone's retelling of the curious story of the devious little man who can spin straw into gold and the miller's daughter who outsmarts him is as thrilling as ever! --
12) The magic purse
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
After facing danger to help a young woman, a poor farmer receives a magic purse that always refills itself with gold.
13) Into the woods
Publisher
Brandman Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
The fairy tale characters of Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella, and Jack (and the Beanstalk) are linked together with the characters of a baker and his wife. Their stories intertwine as they all search for something different in the woods. After they have all found happiness, they must band together to fight a giant.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Folklore: Adapted Fairy Tales and Rhymes
Children's Folklore: Adapted Fairy Tales and Rhymes
Description
Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
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