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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Featuring commentary by "Albus Dumbledore," this collection of tales from the world of Harry Potter includes "The wizard and the hopping pot," "The fountain of fair fortune," "The warlock's hairy heart," "Babbitty Rabbitty and her cackling stump," and "The tale of the three brothers."
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means -- and the self-confidence-- to become human agian.
5) Heckedy peg
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White's (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty's (almost) stories. The book is a beautiful work of art.
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having recovered their human shape, Emeralda and Eadric try to help Aunt Grassina find the special objects needed to break the spell that turned Grassina's true love, Haywood, into an otter.
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Princess Emma is determined, with the help of her favorite bat, Li'l, and some long-lost ancestors, to reverse the curse put upon her lineage by an angry fairy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A humorous retelling of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, told from the witch's point of view--who rescues the children from their wicked stepmother, and teaches them food art.
10) Hansel & Gretel
Author
Language
English
Description
A simplified version of the traditional tale in which Hansel and Gretel become lost in the woods and find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this modern version of Snow White, Eira Blanc escapes when her stepmother tries to have her killed, and find herself taken in by seven thieves who agree to help her in her plan to take down the Wicked Witch of the West Side.
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In this trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they have to deal with the witch and hope the portal will open so they can get home.
Author
Series
Disney villains volume 5
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Mother Gothel, Rapunzel's adoptive mother, to find out her motivations behind abducting the princess and locking her in a tower to shield her from a cruel world.
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Kendra, a witch, and the first three-hundred years of her life, including takes on a classic fairy tale, the 1666 plague in Britain, the Titanic disaster, and the story of a modern-day, plain stepsister.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus embark on a dwarf-watching outing, not knowing that the dwarves are working frantically making crowns for a royal wedding and that they have enlisted some unreliable trolls to help them, thus putting the humans' expedition in peril.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this humorous adaptation of a lesser-known Grimm fairy tale, Forest Ranger Dan finds a strange baby in a bird's nest and raises him along with his own baby daughter, Cassie; Birdy proves to have magic powers, and the cook at the Dark Woods Station (who is a witch, and makes really horrible food) wants to use him as an ingredient in her latest magic brew--so it is up to Birdy and Cassie to find a way to defeat her, save themselves, and enable the...
Author
Series
Tales of the frog princess volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Grassina vies with her older sister, Chartreuse, to see who will inherit the family's talent for magic and become the Green Witch, while each ponders which prince will be at her side during her "happily ever after."
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Grassina vies with her older sister, Chartreuse, to see who will inherit the family's talent for magic and become the Green Witch, while each ponders which prince will be at her side during her "happily ever after."
20) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An improverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga.