Kelly Regan Barnhill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family. "Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"The once-lovely town of Stone-in-the-Glen has fallen on hard times. After relentless fires, floods, and other calamities, they've lost their library, their school, their park, their prosperity. Even their neighborliness is lost. Only the wise and clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress who lives quietly at the edge of town see clearly how dire things are. The people of Stone-in-the-Glen have put their faith in their Mayor, a dazzling...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Jack is practically invisible at home, but when his parents send him to Hazelwood, Iowa, to spend a summer with his odd aunt and uncle, he suddenly makes friends, is beaten up by the town bully, and is plotted against by the richest man in town.
Author
Publisher
Loqueleo
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español
Description
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being--called the Nybbas--imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin summons the strength to protect his family and community, while in the woods, thebandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Even if it looks clean, untreated water can have deadly bacteria in it. Discover the nasty effects of unclean water, and learn about the process by which clean, clear water gets to your tap.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Playing outside on a hot summer day, you?re completely soaked with sweat. What is that stinky, watery stuff that oozes out of your skin? Jump in and discover how sweat helps you keep your cool.
15) Terrifying tales
Series
Guys read volume 6
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Presents an anthology of spooky and scary tales for children that features such supernatural elements as mysteriously appearing tattoos and ghostly encounters in dark hallways.