Roald Dahl
21) The Minpins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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.
22) Revolting rhymes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
El dueno de la fabrica de chocolate Wonka ha escondido 5 billetes de oro en sus chocolatinas, billetes que son el acceso a la misteriosa fabrica que oculta multiples e increibles sorpresa. Charlie tiene la suerte de encontrar unos de ellos.
24) Dirty beasts
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A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions, and anteaters who delight in devouring people.
25) The twits
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching unsuspecting birds to put in their bird pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. With the help of Roly-Poly Bird, they set out to get some well-deserved revenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!
Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief—it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they...
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!
Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief—it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they...
28) The magic finger
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Boy, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days. With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography". (Roald Dahl). This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
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 her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life—and so is George, when he sees the results of his mixture!
32) Wonka
Author
Pub. Date
2023
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...
34) El superzorro
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Un valle, tres granjas, tres malvados granjeros y un bosque... en el que vive don Zorro. Benito, BuÃأuelo, BufÃçn, los granjeros, odian a don Zorro y quieren capturarle por todos medios. Le esperan a la salida de su madriguera, escondidos detrás de los árboles, con la escopeta cargada. Pero no se imaginan que don Zorro tiene su propio plan... ¡un fantástico plan!--proporcionada por el editor.
Three farmers, each one meaner than the...
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Presents thirteen stories, selected for teenagers, from Dahl's adult writings, including "The Great Automatic Grammatizator," "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat," and "Vengeance is Mine Inc." Tales of horror and hilarity packed with imaginative characters, quirky plots, and surprise endings.
37) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Follows the story of an exceptional little girl whose lazy parents dismiss her as a nuisance and who discovers in the wake of a cruel headmistress's bullying that she has a remarkable power with which to avenge herself.
39) The witches
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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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.