Roald Dahl
4) Matilda
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Matilda applies her previously 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.
6) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"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 could never catch him; but now fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don't know is that they're not dealing with just any fox--Mr. Fox would rather die than surrender. Only the most fantastic plan can save him now."--Back...
8) The twits
Author
Publisher
distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1981, c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
13) Esio Trot
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1992, 1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
16) The Minpins
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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.
17) The Witches
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Loqueleo, Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
El señor Wonka escondió cinco billetes de oro en sus chocolates. Quienes los encuentren serán los afortunados que visiten su magnífica fábrica de chocolate. Charlie tiene la suerte de encontrar uno de ellos y, a partir de ese momento, su vida cambiará para siempre.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Containing excerpts from earlier tributes to Dahl's work and wit, this is an eclectic and funny collection of tidbits by and about the late author. It also features a missing chapter from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."