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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an Ogre comes to town demanding a bride, the mayor sacrifices the homeless girl with no name that everyone thinks is a pest and a bother, but she finds a way to outwit them all.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Billy goat brothers Gruff, Ruff, and Tuff are bullies who rule their meadow, but when they cross Little Ogre's bridge and are mean to the baby animals on the other side, they are in for a surprise.
8) I'm ogre it
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Izzie and her a new friend, an Ogre named Tim, plan an obstacle course to lure her brother Ollie away from his video game. Ollie is so absorbed in the video game Smash Tower that he doesn't notice that his sister and an ogre named Tim have emptied his room and constructed an obstacle course that mirrors the levels of the game in the yard. But a tell-tale red string leads him to the challenges. This comic is perfect for reintroducing kids to the fun...
9) Ogres
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world. It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call. Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It's always been that way. It's the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes. But when the headman's son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord's son, he sets himself...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Milo Speck enters Ogregon, a land populated with hungry ogres, enormous turkeys, children needing rescue, and his own, ordinary, salesman-father, his top priority is to escape--but only after thwarting a plot to turn children everywhere into ogre snack food.
Author
Series
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Pru's life was practically perfect. She had two loving dads, an ostrich named Orville, and three royal tarantulas. And then one day, a ghastly ogre with crusty toenails and goopy ears moves into the house on the hill. At first, Pru sees the ogre as a nuisance: he disrupts her royal rock band practices, weekly tickle tag games, and even the hide-and-seek tournament. The townspeople are also suspicious--everyone knows ogres hate seeing people...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who...
13) These bones
Author
Publisher
Lanternfish Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest.As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what's left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"School dances are tricky. Everybody wants to go, but nobody wants to dance. The music is too loud for anyone to talk. Teachers are there watching kids, but telling them to go out and have a good time. Oh, and at Kersville Elementary... be careful because you'll have to watch out for ghouls on the dance floor!"--Amazon.com.
Series
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In each new adventure, Putuguq and Kublu learn about an element of Inuit mythology from their Elders, sometimes using what they learn to get the best of each other! Putuguq and Kublu are at their grandparents' house for lunch--caribou stew, Putuguq's favourite! Putuguq's worn out (and stinky!) kamiik remind his grandparents of the story of the amautalik and the orphan, a traditional Inuit story about a little orphan who outsmarts a child-stealing...
16) Tokyo ghoul: 9
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 9
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every wayexcept their craving for human flesh.
17) Ogres awake!
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a knight spots sleeping ogres just beyond the castle walls, he alerts the king of the danger and the kingdom prepares for the monsters in an odd way.
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Grey lives in the legend-haunted New England town of Ander's Landing, and he can't help but feel like a pair of eyes is watching his every move. He discovers odd, gruesome bits and pieces from the graveyard that are left for him as gifts like art carved from bones or jewelry made from (hopefully not human) remains. Soon Grey is caught up in something bigger than he could ever have imagined. He finds himself drawn into a strange mystery...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"¡Una damisela al rescate! Criada por un ogro de padre que se come a sus rivales para cenar, Blancaflor tiene prohibido presumir de sus considerables poderes, por miedo a espantar a posibles pretendientes. Cuando un príncipe cae del cielo y se despierta en su regazo, queda hechizada, y moverá cielo y tierra para ayudar al adorable--aunque no muy listo--joven, intentando que no se entere."--
"In this updated adaptation of a classic Latin American...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A damsel to the rescue! Raised by a mean ogre of a father who eats his opponents for dinner, Blancaflor is often told not to show off her own considerable powers for fear of scaring off suitors. When a prince falls from the sky and wakes up in her lap, she is spellbound and moves heaven and earth to help the endearing, yet not so clever, young man, all while trying not to let him know. With their trademark magnificent brio, Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio...
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