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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
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In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even a small creature is capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.
43) Tops and bottoms
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
Language
English
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Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
Author
Language
English
Description
James George Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic...
50) The siren
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Kahlen was rescued from drowning by the Ocean. To repay her debt, she has served as a Siren ever since, using her voice to lure countless strangers to their deaths. Though a single word from Kahlen can kill, she can't resist spending her days on land, watching ordinary people and longing for the day when she will be able to speak and laugh and live freely among them again. Kahlen is resigned to finishing her sentence in solitude...until...
51) Serpent & dove
Author
Series
Serpent and Dove volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
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Two years ago Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Then a wicked stunt forces the two into holy matrimony. Lou is unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is. A choice must be made... and love makes fools of us all. -- Adapted from dust jacket.
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and...
54) Scarlet
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 2
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
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Description
Peter's mischievous cousin, Benjamin Bunny, persuades him to go back to Mr. McGregor's garden to retrieve the clothes he lost there. To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design...
57) Ogre enchanted
Author
Series
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Healer Evora is turned into a hideous ogre by the fairy Lucinda after rejecting a proposal and has only a few months to find a love to reverse the curse" -- Provided by publisher.
58) Gods & monsters
Author
Series
Serpent and dove volume 3
Language
English
Description
Lou has spent her whole life running. Now, after a crushing blow from Morgane, the time has come to go home--and claim what is rightfully hers. But this is no longer the Lou her friends knew. No longer the Lou who captured a chasseur's heart. A darkness has settled over her, and this time it will take more than love to drive it out.
59) The yearling
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. Relive the wonder of a childhood favorite that has been capturing the hearts of readers for more than half a century. An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and loved by school-age children across the nation for more than fifty years. In this classic story of the Baxter family and...
60) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.