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21) Spindle's end
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
25) Briar Rose
Author
Series
Fairy tales volume no. 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Rewrites the old German folktale, Sleeping Beauty, into a story about the ramifications of the Holocaust.
27) Cinderella
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1060L
Language
English
Description
Cinderella hopes to escape her life of drudgery as a virtual slave to her cold-hearted stepmother and stepsisters. With the help of some friends and a fairy godmother, she succeeds.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Language
English
Description
Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal.
34) Ghost camp
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 45
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Description
Harry and his brother, Alex, go from creeped out to downright frightened when the strange goings-on at Camp Spirit Moon take a supernaturally dangerous turn.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"The Little Prince" is French aviator Antonine de Saint-Exupery's most famous novella. The story, first published in 1943, is about a pilot who must make an emergency landing in the desert becaouse of engine problems. This is ironic, since the author himself took off in a plane over the Mediterranean just a year later and was never seen or heard from again. This timeless story has been adapted to various media over the decades, including stage, screen...
37) Call it courage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea, which killed his mother when he was a baby, and proves his courage to himself and his people.
38) Nightmare hour
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Enter the most terrifying place of all...the mind of R.L. Stine!
The Nightmare Hour...the time when the lights fade, the real world slips into shadow, and the cold, moonlit world of evil dreams takes over your mind.
What horror awaits a boy who has to spend Halloween in a darkened hospital? How do you outwit a ghost who wants your skin? What makes Nightmare Inn the most frightening place to visit?
In this spine-tingling
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as ""The Gingerbread Girl"" and "N."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.