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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by any of the other giants, she would have soon become breakfast. Sophie and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Jack's magic beanstalk produces so many beans that soon everyone in the village is sick of eating them, and mad at Jack, and when he climbs the beanstalk he finds that Mr. Giant is equally fed up with beans--but fortunately Mrs. Giant suggests a solution to their diet problem.
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 8
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Princess in Black is ready for her snowy playdate with the Goat Avenger and the Princess in Blankets. It's a perfect day to build snow monsters and battle them for practice. But just when they're about to wage battle, a huge foot smashes their snow monster. "SQUASHY!" It's a giant, and it's smashing everything in its path! The giant is too strong for the three friends, so the Princess in Blankets has an idea: it's time to light the Sparkle Signal...
10) The nixie's song
Author
Series
Beyond the spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
162 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas' dad remarries and moves his sons, new wife and daughter to Mangrove Hollow housing development in Florida, it's soon up the kids to figure out the best way to stop rampaging giants they discover living nearby.
11) A giant problem
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
154 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
12) The Iron Man
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber Limited
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
63 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. And so the story begins.
13) The Iron Giant
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
79 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everyone feared the Iron Giant, but he became the world's hero when he challenged the space-monster larger than Australia.
14) The mightiest
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Lion, the Bear, and the Elephant compete to see who can do the best job scaring a tiny old woman, but she has a surprise for them.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his and his mother's fortune.
16) Giants beware!
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
202 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Claudette wants nothing more than to slay a giant but her little village is too safe and quiet.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune. Includes historical notes on versions of this tale, other heroic stories, and alternate "ascension" tales.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Climb the beanstalk with Jack in this quirky take on the traditional tale. When there is no food in the cupboard, Jack goes to market to sell Daisy the cow. But rather than money, Jack procures magic beans and the promise of adventure.
19) BFG, The
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
207 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the tale of Jack who, after trading his mother's milk cow for magic beans, climbs a beanstalk to seek his missing father in the land of giants.