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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by any of the other giants, she would have soon become breakfast. Sophie and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
2) Wilfred
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Wilfred, a big, hairy, and lonesome giant, enters a town full of tiny bald people, he finds only one friend but that proves to be enough when the other townspeople trick him out of his warm hair.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Jack's magic beanstalk produces so many beans that soon everyone in the village is sick of eating them, and mad at Jack, and when he climbs the beanstalk he finds that Mr. Giant is equally fed up with beans--but fortunately Mrs. Giant suggests a solution to their diet problem.
Author
Series
Beyond the spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
162 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas' dad remarries and moves his sons, new wife and daughter to Mangrove Hollow housing development in Florida, it's soon up the kids to figure out the best way to stop rampaging giants they discover living nearby.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Lion, the Bear, and the Elephant compete to see who can do the best job scaring a tiny old woman, but she has a surprise for them.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his and his mother's fortune.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune. Includes historical notes on versions of this tale, other heroic stories, and alternate "ascension" tales.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After summer, Charlie Lawson expects to go back to the boredom of middle school, but he stumbles on an abandoned warehouse, where he befriends a twenty-foot-tall teenage giant.
10) A giant problem
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
154 p. : ill. ;
Language
English
Description
As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
11) The BFG
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD [edition].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 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.
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 11
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eren's arrival helps the 104th claim victory at Wall Rose, and the identity of the two Titans destroying the walls is revealed.
Author
Series
Dragon masters volume 9
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.
15) Giant trouble
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When Princess Harriet climbs an enormous beantalk, she finds an even bigger surprise--a giant rabbit is keeping a goose and a girl who is half-harp-half-hamster are prisoner, and it's up to Harriet to save the day"--
Author
Series
Once Upon Another Time volume 3 (CD)
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Who doesn't love a good happily ever after?
The Cursed City is now the Blessed City, as it's residents' curses have been removed. Lena is now fully human, as are the rest of the giants, and together they live in peace with all the other humans in the city, all of their differences now gone. And sure, Jin might have disappeared, but really, genie magic only caused trouble.
At least, that's what the magic spell Lena's head is telling her. But somewhere...
Author
Series
Once upon another time volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seeking revenge from his loss in the Cursed City, the Golden King starts spreading shadow magic over the kingdoms, and according the fairy queens sacred book, only Lena can defeat him and his dark spells, but first she must prove she is worthy but completing three challenges.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gemma has always lived in a very nice little house, always slept in the same room and always worn the same clothes. A doll in an old forgotten dollhouse, Gemma wonders if she will ever grow up, but her parents tell her she will always be their little girl. Until, one day, the dollhouse is opened by a GIANT, and Gemma's whole life changes. New things are introduced into the little house -- and Gemma finally has an opportunity to leave what's familiar...
19) Giant island
Author
Publisher
Flashlight Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Under Grandpa's watchful eye, the kids are thrilled to discover that the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and windswept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem. Are the children the first to fathom this huge secret, or does Grandpa have a secret of his own?"--