Roald Dahl
2) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers...
3) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Adult - Books Made Into Movies
Kids - Fantasy
Kids - Suggestions for Second Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Third Graders
Kids - Fantasy
Kids - Suggestions for Second Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Third Graders
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
5) The witches
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
9) The Twits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
11) The magic finger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
12) Esio Trot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
13) Boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Find out where bestselling author Raold Dahl got all his wonderful ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood.
14) The Minpins
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Little Billy enters the Forest of Sin and meets the Minpins, matchstick-sized people who live in tree cities besieged by the Smoke-Belching Gruncher whom Billy vows to destroy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
The enormous crocodile devises secret plans and a few clever tricks to secure his lunch only to have them foiled by his neighbors. The other jungle animals thwart the ferocious crocodile's plans to eat some "nice juicy children" for lunch. The Enormous Crocodile decides that he wants a nice juicy child for lunch, horrifying the other animals in the jungle--his friend, the Notsobig One; Humpy-Rumpy, the hippopotamus; Trunky, the elephant; Muggle-Wump,...
Author
Series
Juvenil Alfaguara volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara Infantil
Pub. Date
©2020.
Physical Desc
299 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"¡La obra maestra oscuramente divertida de Roald Dahl, Las brujas, ahora disponible como una novela gráfica de la artista ganadora del premio Eisner, Penelope Bagieu! Las brujas son reales y son muy, muy peligrosas. Llevan ropa corriente y tienen trabajos corrientes, viven en ciudades corrientes de todo el mundo, y no hay nada que desprecien más que los niños. Cuando un niño de ocho años y su abuela se encuentran cara a cara con la Gran Bruja,...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
El sęor Wonka, duęo de la mag̕nfica ̀fbrica de chocolate, ha escondido cinco billetes de oro en sus chocolatinas. Quienes los encuentren sèrn los elegidos para visitar la ̀fbrica. Charlie tiene la fortuna de encontrar uno de esos billetes y, a partir de ese momento, su vida cambiàr para siempre.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.