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2) Animal farm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In his story of downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality, George Orwell gave us one of the most scathing satiric fables every written. As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, Animal Farm is a parable about would-be liberators everywhere. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals through the lens of our own history, we...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Illustrated
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this modern-day re-telling of Aesop's fable 'The City Mouse and the Country Mouse,' Liz turns up her nose at farm cooking while Abby learns she prefers the peace of the farm to the excitement of the city"--
9) Fable comics
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Amazing cartoonists take on classic fables from Aesop and beyond!"--Cover.
10) Bat's big game
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic Aesop's fable about a ball game between the birds and the animals, and Bat, who wants to play on the winning team.
11) The alchemist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"This story ... is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey...
12) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Grand Battle begins with the search for allies in the Northern Kindoms and ends in The Burning that will change all Owldom forever.Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic battle against the sinister Pure Ones. Meanwhile, in the Southern Kingdoms, St. Aggies has fallen to the Pure Ones and they are using its resources to plan a final invasion...
13) The outcast
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
To prove his goodness, young Nyroc will renounce his name, his mother, and his inheritance to seek the holiest of relics from The Beyond the Beyond.
Nyroc has exiled himself from the Pure Ones. He flies alone, feared and despised by those who know him as Kludd's son, hunted by those whose despotism he has rejected, and haunted by ghostly creatures conjured by Nyra to lure him back to the Pure Ones. He yearns for a place he only half believes in -...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with...
15) The hatchling
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ga'Hoole is victorious, but far from the great tree, in the bitter ashes of defeat under a full moon, Nyroc is born. And he will be bred to monstrous evil.Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and strange news of a place where goodness...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.
18) The journey
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The second book in the GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series continues this classic hero mythology about the battle between good and evil. This book chronicles Soren's quest for nobility.In the second book in the GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger travel to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds. Soren and his group are seeking help to fight the evil they discovered...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.
20) The shattering
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Soren's sister, Eglantine, si falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger"--P. [4] of cover.
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