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Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The giant statue that has always stood in front of the Church of San Sepolcro in Barletta is called upon to save the town from an army of a thousand men that is destroying all the towns and cities along the lower Adriatic coast.
Author
Series
Whatever after ; 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Abby and Jonah take a trip through the magic mirror and finally end up in Jack and the beanstalk (which happens to be Jonah's favorite story ever)--but things soon start to go wrong, and the children have to try and set the tale right, even if it means trading their dog, Prince, for the magic beans, climbing the beanstalk (three times!), and reaching an amicable settlement with the giants (Magnus and Philippa, who are really quite nice), and the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fitting in can be hard, especially when you're as small as Ember, a tiny boy living alone in a city of giants. But Ember's luck changes when he meets Lua, a kindly sea turtle, who escorts him across the ocean to a school for little creatures on a wondrous island...As he struggles to adapt to this new world, Ember finds himself at the heart of an otherworldly mystery, facing a strange monster from the deep that threatens everything he holds dear"--...
14) Abiyoyo returns
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irish giant Finn McCool is told that in order to become wise he must catch and eat the salmon that possesses knowledge, but Finn finds that he cannot bring himself to kill the miraculous fish.