Jane Yolen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In these twelve modern myths and tales for the young and the young at heart, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear-but dead-mother's homecoming, a bridge that longs for a goat-eating troll, and a mutiny among Peter Pan's troops.
63) Stone angel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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James, an earl's son and bothersome child, may hold the key to saving Cranford Abbey, a dilapidated school where he is sent to be educated, that newly-appointed Abbot Aelian thinks can be saved if he can make cider from the golden apples now being eaten by ravenous unicorns.
67) Interrupting cow
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Reveals the true, humorous story about an interrupting cow, based on the popular knock-knock joke.
68) The dragon's boy
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English
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Young Arthur meets a dragon and comes to accept him as a friend and mentor.
72) Encounter
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
Author
Series
Young heroes (Jane Yolen) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Jason, who will grow up to become the head of the Argonauts, leads five other boys on a dangerous quest to save the kingdom of Iolcus, learning along the way what it means to be in command.
75) White Jenna
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Series
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English
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Nebula Award Finalist: A long-awaited savior joins forces with her dark twin to confront the evil threatening their land in the second book of the acclaimed epic fantasy the Great Alta Saga Grown to young womanhood in the mountain region of the Dales and trained for combat by the all-female followers of the goddess Great Alta, Jenna reluctantly accepts the fact that she might well be the Anna, the warrior queen who has long been prophesied. Orphaned...
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English
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The first book of a thought-provoking fantasy trilogy about a warrior woman who, together with her dark twin, is destined to remake the world Legend foretold the child named Jenna, who was three-times orphaned before she could crawl, a fate that would leave her in the hands of women who worshipped the benevolent goddess Great Alta. In this world without men, Jenna comes of age, learning quickly the skills of close combat. But her most powerful gift...
Author
Series
Tartan magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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While visiting relatives in Scotland, three children come to the aid of a refugee from the distant past, a young Pict girl escaping a massacre of her people.
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Series
Stuart quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In 1746, a year after the Scottish clans have rallied to the call of their exiled prince, Charles Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny, fourteen-year-old, epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh reality of war.