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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an english country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 46
Language
English
Description
Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social register.
10) Seven blind mice
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.
12) Fables
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
All summer long, Ant carries out the very serious business of gathering food for the winter, while carefree Grasshopper sings the days away, but Grasshopper ends up in trouble when a dreadful winter storm arrives.
17) Aesop's fables
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A collection of eight fables, each introduced by Aesop, the freed slave turned master storyteller, who shares the real-life events that inspired each tale.
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