Geraldine McCaughrean
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them. Includes afterword about the history of St. Kilda, list of the birds of St. Kilda, and glossary.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, all is not well. Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland. Fearing for Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys go back to Neverland -- with the help of the fairy Fireflyer -- only to discover their worst nightmares coming true! Peter Pan and his friends eventually restore Neverland to rights.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
6) Hercules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, discovers her husband's mortal son Hercules, she vows to destroy him. Thus begins Hercules's legendary and epic journey in which he is forced to take on a series of seemingly impossible tasks. He battles an array of both amazing and terrifying beasts, including the mighty Cretan Bull, the many-headed Hydra, the ferocious Nemean Lion, and the three-headed guardian of hell, Cerberus. With the help of the gods Athena...
8) Odysseus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Trojan War is over, and Odysseus longs to return to wife and son on his island kingdom of Ithaca. But between hero and home stands an array of dangers unlike any ever faced by mortal man. On his epic voyage-an adventure so grand and glorious it has become the very symbol for all great journeys-Odysseus must face the monstrous cyclops, escape the enchanting nymph Circe, defy the terrors of Scylla and Charybdis, and descend to the land of the dead....
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Geraldine McCaughrean's breathtakingly evocative prose brings new life to the familiar stories. This beautiful book with enduring prose and stylish illustrations is a wonderful family keepsake and a delight to read alone or aloud in homes, schools and churches. Sophy Williams is celebrated for her sensitive illustrations, which perfectly match Geraldine's sophisticated prose.
3 yrs+
Author
Lexile measure
AD 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two neighboring kingdoms and a thorn hedge between them. If only both could share the produce they each grow, life would be so much better. The children have a solution. But the rival kings would rather settle matters with a battle.They send for dragons. But will the dragons choose to come? And if they do, will they fight? And will it solve anything?"--Jacket flap.
11) Perseus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of the Perseus myth.
12) The kite rider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
14) Theseus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retells the story of Theseus, from his beginning as a humble country boy to when he killed the Minotaur and was punished by Poseidon.
15) Cyrano
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.
19) The Jesse tree
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The stories that tell of Christ's lineage unfold as an old carpenter begrudgingly tells a young boy about the Jesse tree he is carving.