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22) 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.
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.
26) 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: 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.
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...
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.
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.
"Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in...
38) The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
39) Pinocchio
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
170L
Language
English
Description
In Geppetto's hand a piece of wood that talks becomes a living mischievous marionette and eventually, after many trials and errors, a real boy.