Roald Dahl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
James es un niño huérfano que vive con dos tías muy severas que le hacen la vida imposible. Pero un día, un extraño personaje le regala un cucurucho de bolitas mágicas que hacen crecer sorprendentemente al viejo melocotonero del patio. Montado en un melocotón gigante, James inicia un viaje fascinante por el mundo entero.
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a...
2) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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...
4) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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 is placed in the custody of his eccentric witch-expert grandmother before being transformed into a mouse by an evil coven that is plotting against local kids.
6) The Witches
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches, now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning artist Pénélope Bagieu!
Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world -- and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may...
7) The twits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
10) Wonka
Author
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Based on the major motion picture—an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor—Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time . . . proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything...
Based on the major motion picture—an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor—Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time . . . proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This collectable hardcover edition will feature a beautiful cover and deluxe packaging, including color interior text and illustrations! From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda comes the story of a not-so-lovely grandma, a boy, and a magical medicine.George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A splendiferousnew hardback of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, part of a collection of truly delumptiousclassic Roald Dahl titles with stylish jackets over surprise printed colour cases, and exquisite endpaper designs. 'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' - David Walliams Bold and exciting and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the meanest three farmers you could meet. They are determined...
15) Esio Trot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
16) The Minpins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ignoring warnings against it, little Billy enters the Forest of Sins, only to be pursued by the fearsome Grinder, a creature who chases him high up an ancient tree, where he encounters a city of tree-dwelling, matchstick-sized people.
18) Vile verses
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.