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Author
Series
2:52 mysteries of Eckert House volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year old Dan helps discover the whereabouts of a long-lost golden room, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and devises a plan to keep it safe until a decision about its true ownership can be made.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of Blightsend. Outside, the Masters - all boys and men - play music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently, silently make that music into gold. Making shimmer, Mother Nine calls it. But Delphernia can't make shimmer. She would rather sing than stay silent. When a Master who doesn't act like a Master comes to the skydoor,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
Author
Series
(Fairly) true tales volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.
Shurtliff does more than spin words into gold--she gets us rooting for Rumpelstiltskin, a most magical feat.
5) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Marcada por el dios de las mentiras, Serilda ha desarrollado un talento para contar historias atrapantes, asombrosas y... completamente falsas. O eso es lo que todos creen. Cuando llama la atención del siniestro Erlking y sus cazadores no muertos, se ve arrastrada a un mundo sombrío en el que su Oscura Majestas le ordena convertir paja en oro o pagará con su vida la mentira. Y, desesperada, acepta la ayuda de un misterioso joven que invoca por...
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters narrate two interwining stories - one of a nineteenth-century teenage girl in the goldfields of Australia; the other of a present-day teenager who, in a nugget of gold, discovers a link with the past and the explanation to a mystery surrounding the earlier girl's marriage.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Lexile measure
320L
Language
English
Description
Tom and Elena are poor but happy until the day Tom finds that their little white goose has laid a golden egg. Every morning they find another egg, every day they grow richer - but what happens when one golden egg a day just isn't enough?
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