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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
2) Wondrous Rex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Grace's aunt is a writer. She works with words every day and teaches Grace interesting words like 'melancholy' and 'delirious.' But Lily is often 'flummoxed' by her writing. Her stories don't go anywhere, her desk is a mess, and her writer's group can't help. So Lily posts an ad for an assistant: A writer of books needs an assistant, a coach, a helper, for inspiration and some magic! The next day, Grace opens the door, and there is Rex: a Labrador...
4) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. "Michael," said Karl. "There's a really big bear in the backyard." This is how three children meet Stillwater, a giant panda who moves into the neighborhood and tells amazing tales. To Addie he tells a story about the value of material goods. To Michael he pushes the boundaries of good and bad. And to Karl he demonstrates...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all--for the king of the land seeks just such a girl, and Brother Edik, who penned the prophecy himself, knows why. So it is that a girl...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
The moon is missing in the remote village of Clear Sky, but only a young boy named Rendi seems to have noticed! Rendi has run away from home and is now working as a chore boy at the village inn. he can't help but notice the village's peculiar inhabitants and their problems-where has the innkeeper's son gone? Why are Master Chao and Widow Yan always arguing? What is the crying sound Rendi keeps hearing? And how can crazy, old Mr. Shan not know whether...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourth-grader Brian Higman worries about how his teacher Miss Fromme--nicknamed The General--will react when he fails to hand in a writing assignment, but he ends up being able to tell his story after all.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Esha and her best friends, Avery, Bree, and Jaelyn, are set for a great summer at Storm Cliff Stables improving their riding skills--until Esha tells a ghost story around the campfire that has everybody jumping at shadows, and blaming the imaginary ghost for anything that goes wrong.
9) The octopus.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Description
Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
11) Nightbooks
Author
Series
Nightbooks volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Alex's original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he'll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He's loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don't have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he's desperate for a different ending--and a way out of this twisted place. This modern spin on the Scheherazade story is perfect for fans of Coraline...
13) Thirteen chairs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jack enters the deserted house in his neighborhood, he finds a group of people who invite him to take the thirteenth chair in the room and share a story--in the house where the ghosts meet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
It's after school for the little red chicken, and she has just learned something new: every story has an elephant of surprise. Or is it, as her papa explains, an element of surprise? As they dive into story after story, looking for the part that you go, "Whoa! I didn't know that was going to happen," Papa is sure he can convince Chicken he's right. After all, there are definitely no elephants in The Ugly Duckling, Rapunzel, or The Little Mermaid...Or...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse to stay bottled up. When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one...
16) Poison
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.
Author
Series
Pig in a wig volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming, easy-to-read text introduce an increasing, then decreasing, cast of characters sharing a boat in a moat with a pig in an enormous wig.
19) It's a tiger!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
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