Quentin Blake
1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The BFG--Big Friendly Giant--kidnaps Sophie from her bed in the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities of nine evil giants.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
166 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Find out where the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG got all his wonderful story ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood!
From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald...
From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald...
10) Esio Trot
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!
Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else—Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn’t even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. And Mr. Hoppy is too shy to even ask Mrs. Silver over for tea. Then one day Mr. Hoppy comes...
Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else—Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn’t even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. And Mr. Hoppy is too shy to even ask Mrs. Silver over for tea. Then one day Mr. Hoppy comes...
11) The Witches
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches, now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning artist Pénélope Bagieu!
Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world -- and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may...
12) Arabel's Raven
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street. This wacky raven eats everything in sight, answers the telephone by squawking "Nevermore!" and causes chaos wherever he goes—but Arabel loves her new feathered friend, whom she names Mortimer.
This is the first volume of Arabel and Mortimer's adventures, brightened with hilarious illustrations by Quentin Blake.
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