Geraldine McCaughrean
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Left penniless in eighteenth-century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousey sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.
4) Smile!
Author
Language
English
Description
After surviving a plane crash in the jungle, Flash, a photographer, is taken to a remote village where his instant camera works magic for those who have never seen a photo.
7) Roman myths
Author
Publisher
Margaret McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Retellings of fifteen Roman myths chronicling the exploits and adventures of Venus, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, Diana, and others.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, all is not well. Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland. Fearing for Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys go back to Neverland -- with the help of the fairy Fireflyer -- only to discover their worst nightmares coming true! Peter Pan and his friends eventually restore Neverland to rights.
9) Greek myths
Author
Publisher
M. K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A collection of sixteen favorite Greek myths including the adventures of Jason, Theseus, Odysseus, Icarus, King Midas, and other lesser-known stories.
10) The Odyssey
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
11) Perseus
Author
Series
Publisher
Carus Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Readers follow Perseus as he lives the fate the oracles have declared--an impossible quest to kill the hideous, snake-haired Medusa to save his mother from marriage to an evil king.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child, wondering why Grandma doesn't have the grandfather clock in her house repaired, learns that there are many ways to measure time, from the moment it takes to blink an eye to the years shown in gray hairs.
13) Odysseus
Author
Series
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tutmose, an apprentice sculptor, and his nearly-blind brother, Ibrim, an apprentice musician, are content at the court of Pharoah Akhenaten, but their father rages against Pharoah's rejection of traditional Egyptian gods and plots a deadly revenge.
17) The Jesse tree
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The stories that tell of Christ's lineage unfold as an old carpenter begrudgingly tells a young boy about the Jesse tree he is carving.
18) Gilgamesh
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.