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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This classic story by Hans Christian Andersen follows two young children, Kai and Gerda, who are best friends and neighbors. When a troll's mirror that reflects the ugliness in all things shatters, Kai gets flecks of the glass in his eyes and heart, which hardens him. He leaves his friend Gerda and his family, and goes off with the Snow Queen, whose two kisses make Kai forget about Gerda and numbs him to the cold. Gerda searches for Kai, but when...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Group, Inc
Pub. Date
c.2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A princess has eleven brothers. The twelve siblings live happily and well, until their father decides to remarry. Their new stepmother is a wicked woman, and she turns all the brothers into swans and banishes the princess from the palace. And so it is left to Elisa to endure countless hardships alone in order to save her beloved brothers from the spell. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally...