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41) Spinning silver
Author
Language
English
Description
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father's inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty -- until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk -- grim fey creatures who seem more ice than...
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
Series
Ever After High volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Ever After High, a boarding school for the sons and daughters of famous fairy-tale characters, students Apple White and Raven Queen face the moment when they must choose whether to follow their destinies, or change them.
Author
Series
Tales of the frog princess volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again.
46) The three goats
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
150L
Language
English
Description
Simple retelling of the traditional tale about three billy goats who trick a troll that lives under the bridge. Includes related activities.
49) Cinder Edna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other.
51) Kingdom of color
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
280L
Language
English
Description
Rapunzel leaves her tower in order to see more colors.
Author
Series
Great illustrated classics volume G224-49
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An illustrated edition of more than 200 traditional tales collected from German folklore by the Brothers Grimm.
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
"They are the stories we've known since we were children. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the versions we heard before bedtime. They're darker and often don't end very happily--but they're often far more interesting."
59) The magic beans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
170L
Language
English
Description
An easy-to-read version of Jack and the beanstalk, in which the boy's mother chops down the beanstalk so he can escape from the giant.