Robin McKinley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
4) Pegasus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal–winning author.
The last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it; and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie—or at any rate recognized one—it...
The last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it; and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie—or at any rate recognized one—it...
7) Shadows
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Magic is illegal in Newworld, so Maggie struggles to explain the strange shadows--that only she can see--that seem to accompany her new stepfather everywhere"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire.
In McKinley?s ?First Flight,? a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her ?Hellhound? stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson introduces a young man who must defeat the creature
...11) Dragonhaven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.
12) Sunshine
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Language
English
Description
They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion-within easy reach of a figure in the moonlight. She knows he is a vampire.
13) Black Beauty
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Here is the compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published in 1877. This masterfully illustrated classic is skillfully adapted by Newbery Award-winning author Robin McKinley and remains faithful to the original. With simple text to read aloud to young children,...
14) Chalice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the most important adviser to the new Master, a former priest of Fire.
Author
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories--both imaginative retellings of classic tales as well as McKinley's own original works--includes "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and "The Princess and the Frog.".