Lewis Carroll
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
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Description
Instead of the usual fairy tale, Abby finds herself in the middle of a book, Alice in Wonderland, with two of her friends, plus bossy Penny (who is definitely not a friend), and in order to get back to reality she must solve a curious riddle, find one of her friends who is missing, and somehow avoid getting her head cut off by the Red Queen--and figure out what she is going to tell the other girls if they ever get out of Wonderland.
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Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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With fantastic characters and enchanting, rhythmic, and sometimes nonsense language, Lewis Carroll created magical wonderlands. In his worlds, many things appear upside down and inside out, the rules of logic just don't apply, and everything pompous gets cut down to size. No surprise, then, that children love to visit there, sliding down the rabbit hole with Alice, battling the dreaded Jabberwock, or hunting for that mythical Snark. Carroll's classic...
Author
Series
Queen of Hearts volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
As Princess of Wonderland Palace and the future Queen of Hearts, Dinah's days are an endless monotony of tea, tarts, and a stream of vicious humiliations at the hands of her father, the King of Hearts. The only highlight of her days is visiting Wardley, her childhood best friend, the future Knave of Hearts -- and the love of her life. When an enchanting stranger arrives at the Palace, Dinah watches as everything she's ever wanted threatens to crumble....
10) After Alice
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Language
English
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"When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? In this brilliant work of fiction, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings|and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll|s enduring...
11) Jabberwocky
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Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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This poem describes a battle with a fearsome beast called "The Jabberwock" and is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is included in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In an early scene in that novel, Alice discovers a book that is written backwards. Realizing that she's in the inverted "looking-glass...
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
16) A blade so black
Author
Series
Nightmare-verse volume 1
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Blade So Black delivers an irresistible urban fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland ... but it's not the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated version of the classic nonsense poem from "Through the Looking Glass"where an African American basketball player triumphs over the Jabberwocky.
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Series
Language
English
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"Jenny Weston moves home to Bear Falls, Michigan, to nurse her bruised ego back to health after a bitter divorce. But the idyllic vision of her charming hometown crumbles when her mother's Little Library is destroyed. The next-door neighbor, Zoe Zola, a little person and Lewis Carroll enthusiast, suspects local curmudgeon Adam Cane, but when he's found dead in Zoe's fairy garden, all roads lead back to her. Jenny, however, believes Zoe is innocent,...
20) Unbirthday
Author
Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice, now eighteen, tries to stop the Queen of Hearts' tyrannical rule before the End of Time, and save her own world as well as Wonderland.