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1) Fables
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Deep in the mountains of North Carolina, there once lived a young boy with such a poor memory that he sometimes forgot his own name. Now, Plug Honeycut's mother loved him. So she was the only one who had enough faith in her son to send him on an errand. Leaving their hilltop cabin, he started toward the distant country store to buy some soap. As Plug trudges along the path, over the hills and streams, he also follows the erratic trail of his elusive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by folktales about fools from around the world, brothers Mac and Mac Noodlehead exasperate Uncle Ziti, are fooled by their friend Meatball, and make a garden for their mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
8) Golem
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The saintly Rabbi Loew miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.
9) John Henry
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Author
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Real heroines know that "happily ever after" is something worth fighting for, Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls is a celebration of fifteen women from folktales who seize control of their own fates, and carve out their own destines. Meet brave Bradamante, who rides into battle on a flying horse, Unanana, who rescues her children from the belly of an elephant, Little Molly Whuppie, who's clever enough to trick a giant, and many more daring heroines in...
11) Puss in boots
Author
Publisher
Western
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.