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1) Fable
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Fable joins the young, motley crew of the Marigold to escape the island where her father abandoned her, but she quickly realizes life off the island is more dangerous than she imaged.
Author
Series
Fabled Stables volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One day eight-year-old Auggie Pound, the caretaker of the rare animals in the Fabled Stables, ventures into the swamp to save a new rare creature, the wisp.
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"'A Mirror Mended' is the next installment in USA today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series. Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a...
5) Namesake
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug's scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems. As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception, she learns that the secrets her mother took to her grave are now putting...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Throughout their fifth-grade year, a group of rambunctious students learns fable-like lessons from extraordinary activities, singing guinea pigs, and eccentric teachers, led by the inimitable Mr. Jupiter.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, join a group of nineteenth-century explorers aboard the H.M.S. Challenger, they learn about the ocean, solve the mystery of its fabled sea monster, and gain compassion for their fellow creatures.
12) The dark fable
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old orphan Evie Wilder catches the attention of the Dark Fable, a legendary group of thieves impressed by her unique ability to turn invisible, which leads her into a newfound family, but as she delves deeper she uncovers dark secrets that may hold the key to her own mysterious past.
Author
Series
Fabled Stables volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Auggie loves his job at the Fabled Stables and when he and Fen enter a portal on a quest to rescue a beast called the Shibboleth they must work together to find a way to calm the very hungry monster.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson,...
16) Saving Fable
Author
Series
Talespinners volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Indira Story grew up in Origin, yearning to be the hero of her own story, but after finally being chosen to attend Protagonist Preparatory, she learns that side characters can be heroes, too.
17) Saint: a novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of escaping deadly storms and gaining the reputation of being the luckiest to sail the Narrows, Elias's luck may have run out when he crosses paths with a young dredger from the Unnamed Sea, who tests his faith like never before.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After her first two weeks observing the problems at Decision Tech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how...
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