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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Lexile measure
AD 770L
Language
English
Description
Here are 16 of Aesop's wise, witty and timeless fables, portrayed for the first time in an African setting. This is an exciting new interpretation of one of the world's great classics. This unique story collection is vividly illustrated by Beverley Naidoo's fellow South African Piet Grobler, an internationally acclaimed illustrator.
4) Macbeth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The travels and travails of Homer's resourceful hero have thrilled countless generations of listeners and readers, who for almost three millennia have breathlessly followed his voyage home from Troy to Ithaca. Edith Hall explains our enduring fascination with this epic in terms of its extraordinary openness to adaptation and reinterpretation. Not only has the narrative been read to reflect a wide range of intellectual and aesthetic agendas, but it...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 620L
Language
English
Description
An eight-volume, graphic novel adaptation of L. Frank Baum's tales of Dorothy, a little girl from Kansas who is blown by a storm to the magical land of Oz, where she has amazing adventures while trying to get home.
Language
English
Description
One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop. Here are 126 of the best loved classic fables, including such favorites a'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.' 'The Hare and the Tortoise, ' and 'The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.' Each of these animal tales will delight and entertain readers today as they have done for centuries.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
She is only fourteen, he only a few years older. Their families are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet Romeo and Juliet meet and fall passionately in love. Defying their parents' wishes, they are secretly married, but their brief happiness, is shattered by fate.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In this retelling of the classic tale, Mary McBlicken, a small prairie chicken, and her animal friends are on their way to tell Cowboy Stan and Red Dog Dan that a stampede is coming when they meet a hungry coyote.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For film buffs and literature lovers alike, this is an essential guide to 52 great reads, and the cinema classics they inspired"--
You loved the movie-- but have you read the book? Lopez looks at beloved screen adaptations, and the great reads that inspired them. Some diverge wildly from the original source materials, while others shift the point of view to create an entirely different experience within the same story. In exploring what makes these...
14) As you like it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France, this story is full of kindliness, good fellowship, goodwill, and tales about all kinds of love--physical and intellectual, sentimental and cynical, enduring love between friends, and romantic love at first sight.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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Description
A prose retelling of William Shakespeare's play about the strange events that take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically transform the romantic fate of two young couples.
Author
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From Romeo and Juliet's star-crossed love, to the dark ambitions of Macbeth, the characters from Shakespeare's plays are famous throughout the world. This collection of stories from all the plays, with beautiful illustrations and quotations, is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What do panther chameleons, polar bears, and Gaboon vipers all have in common? They are masters at disguising themselves in their environments. Featuring twelve different animals found around the globe, from African leopards to mimic octopuses, these pages reveal how each creature manages to blend into its habitat and the advantages its camouflaging abilities provide. Put your newly acquired knowledge to the test as you try to find the masters themselves...
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