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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Princess in Black volume 8
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Princess in Black is ready for her snowy playdate with the Goat Avenger and the Princess in Blankets. It's a perfect day to build snow monsters and battle them for practice. But just when they're about to wage battle, a huge foot smashes their snow monster. "SQUASHY!" It's a giant, and it's smashing everything in its path! The giant is too strong for the three friends, so the Princess in Blankets has an idea: it's time to light the Sparkle Signal...
Author
Series
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wiglaf and his friends are on a mission to rescue Worm, the dragon they have raised from an egg, and are surprised to learn that the captor is not a gang of dragon slayers, but rather a young giantess who wants to keep Worm as her house pet.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
[English, Spanish or French dialogue version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth, the giants strive to reclaim the land they one lost, forcing Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jack, a poor boy, trades some of his homemade bean pies for magic beans, they lead him to a strange new world above the clouds where he must must rely on his wits and cooking skills to avoid being eaten by giants. Includes puzzles and notes for adults.
10) Calamity Jack
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The giant statue that always stood in front of the Church of San Sepolcro in Barletta is called upon to save the town from an army of a thousand men that is destroying all the towns and cities along the lower Adriatic coast.
Author
Series
Jack Blank adventure volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[46] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated retelling of the classic tale about a boy named Jack who uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make a fortune for himself and his widowed mother.
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The Greek and Roman demigods must simultaneously prevent the earth mother, Gaea, from waking and stop war from breaking out at Camp HalfBlood"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In this modern version of Jack and the beanstalk, Jack trades his bike for some magic beans, and climbs the beanstalk to the apartment of Mr. Briareus, a large man with a magic chicken and a singing harp.
17) The BFG
Language
English
Formats
Description
It tells the imaginative 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.
20) The stinky giant
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pepper and Jake, sister and brother shepherds, match wits with the giant, Urk, who regularly floods their valley with his dirty washwater.
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