Donna Jo Napoli
1) Beast
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
4) Bound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
5) The wager
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.
6) The smile
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.
7) Hidden
Author
Pub. Date
c[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.