Rebecca K. Reynolds
Author
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This beautiful edition will introduce young readers to the Bard in an easy and accessible way! Featured within are some of Shakespeare's most famous and compelling works that have been abridged and adapted to be more easily read and digestible for children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Rediscover Jack London’s beloved classic in this unique set. First published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post in 1903, The Call of the Wild has never been out of print and has spawned many movie adaptations. Follow a dog named Buck through violence and hardship, loyalty and loss, finally finding himself and his home in the Yukon wilderness. Truly a must-have for London fans, book lovers, and adventurers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. -- back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Cedric is quite happy living with his widowed mother in New York and visiting with his best friend. The Cedric learns that he is Lord Fauntleroy and will one day become an Earl. But in order to claim his title, he will have to leave behind everything he knows to live with his hard-hearted grandfather in England. Can Cedric win over his grandfather? And is he the real Lord Fauntleroy?
Author
Publisher
Rabbit Room Press
Pub. Date
20170404
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the town of Squashbuckle, just about anything can happen, and when Henry Penwhistle draws a mighty Chalk Dragon on his door, the dragon does what Henry least expectsit runs away.
Now Henry's art is out in the world for everyone to see, and it's causing trouble for him and his schoolmates Oscar and Jade. If they don't stop it, the entire town could be doomed!
To vanquish the threat of a rampaging Chalk Dragon, Sir Henry Penwhistle, Knight of La...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos plot to remove the inept king and place the king's twin brother on the throne of France. Meanwhile, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner known only as "Phillippe" wastes away deep inside...
11) Arabian nights
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Scheherazade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, who tells her husband, the king, a different story every night to keep him from fulfilling his plan to kill her in the morning.
12) Greek myths
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
From Icarus's legendary flight to Orpheus's trip to the underworld,this edition introduces young readers to classic Greek myths.
13) Animal stories
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of a dozen stories about animals from well-known authors.
14) Dracula
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass Sea Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all."--Cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mysterious gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune that he can travel around the world in just eighty days. Accompanied by his hapless servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out on a journey through jungles, deserts and mountains, across oceans and into great dangers"--
17) The odyssey
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son scheme to protect his throne.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the voyages of the eighteenth-century Englishman Lemuel Gulliver, that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
19) White Fang
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...