Roald Dahl
5) 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.
9) Vile verses
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A collection of unique verses, songs, and fairy tales, featuring full-color illustrations from such renowned artists as William Joyce, Quentin Blake, and Lane Smith.
11) The witches
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
14) Esio Trot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
15) The Twits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Twits are a devilishly disgusting pair who hate everything except vicious practical jokes, but the Muggle-Wump monkeys have had enough.
16) Going solo
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
17) Revolting rhymes
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2003, c1982
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 300
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This Everyman's Library edition is the only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl's stories for adults.
20) My Uncle Oswald
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©1980
Language
English
Description
Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instlalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of this early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying...