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2) Roman myths
Author
Publisher
Margaret McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Retellings of fifteen Roman myths chronicling the exploits and adventures of Venus, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, Diana, and others.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, all is not well. Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland. Fearing for Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys go back to Neverland -- with the help of the fairy Fireflyer -- only to discover their worst nightmares coming true! Peter Pan and his friends eventually restore Neverland to rights.
5) The Odyssey
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
7) Perseus
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Readers follow Perseus as he lives the fate the oracles have declared--an impossible quest to kill the hideous, snake-haired Medusa to save his mother from marriage to an evil king.
8) Cyrano
Author
Publisher
Full Cast Audio
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A stunning adaptation of the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Geraldine McCaughrean. The adventure, the humor, and the pathos are all here and brought to vivid life in this recording.
9) Odysseus
Author
Series
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
10) Gilgamesh
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Every time a lad came fowling on the stacs, he went home less of a boy and more of a man. (If he went home at all, that is.) Every summer, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned - cold, starving, and clinging to life in the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive such a forsaken...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child, wondering why Grandma doesn't have the grandfather clock in her house repaired, learns that there are many ways to measure time, from the moment it takes to blink an eye to the years shown in gray hairs.
14) The kite rider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
15) Greek myths
Author
Publisher
M. K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A collection of sixteen favorite Greek myths including the adventures of Jason, Theseus, Odysseus, Icarus, King Midas, and other lesser-known stories.
16) The pirate's son
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Left penniless in eighteenth-century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousey sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tutmose, an apprentice sculptor, and his nearly-blind brother, Ibrim, an apprentice musician, are content at the court of Pharoah Akhenaten, but their father rages against Pharoah's rejection of traditional Egyptian gods and plots a deadly revenge.
19) Smile!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After surviving a plane crash in the jungle, Flash, a photographer, is taken to a remote village where his instant camera works magic for those who have never seen a photo.
20) The Jesse tree
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The stories that tell of Christ's lineage unfold as an old carpenter begrudgingly tells a young boy about the Jesse tree he is carving.
