Gareth Hinds
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
2) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A retelling in graphic format of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga.
This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history.
When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery....
This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history.
When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family—and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery....