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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange 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.
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas's life is turned upside-down when his father remarries and moves him and his new family to Florida; but when an expedition to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie, Nick, his brother Julian, and step-sister Laurie have to figure out a way to stop a horde of rampaging giants.
4) Big friends
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Big Hasuni is scared off, after he accidentally destroys a campsite while investigating the plume of smoke rising above an island; only to find a disaster waiting for him at his mountain camp upon his return.
5) Wilfred
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Wilfred, a big, hairy, and lonesome giant, enters a town full of tiny bald people, he finds only one friend but that proves to be enough when the other townspeople trick him out of his warm hair.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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 magic beans
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of the Jack and the Beanstalk story in simple language.
13) The BFG
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death"--Provided by publisher.
19) Giant trouble
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Princess Harriet climbs an enormous beantalk, she finds an even bigger surprise--a giant rabbit is keeping a goose and a girl who is half-harp-half-hamster are prisoner, and it's up to Harriet to save the day"--
20) Calamity Jack
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.
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