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1) The BFG
Author
Language
English
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nick, Julies, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003.
Fountas & Pinnell
I
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
George the giant, known for wearing his old patched clothes, finally buys new ones, but then gives them away to some needy animals.
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 2
Publisher
Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hilda finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis. Her mother, an architect, has been offered a prestigious position in the bustling metropolis that she would find hard to reject. Besides, the tiny elven creatures making a daily habit of bombarding them with threats isn't making Hilda's case any better. As she seeks ways to stall her mother's decision, Hilda rushes...
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nick and Laurie have a giant problem, and it's a lot bigger than they originally thought. When Taloa sent them off to find her sisters, they discovered a single fire breathing giant, but as it turns out, that one giant is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. According to NoSeeum Jack, the blind giant killer who helped Nick, Laurie, and Jared dispatch the original giant, there are hundreds, possibly even thousands of giants underneath the surface...
Author
Series
Themis files volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity."--
9) Bone chase
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There were giants on the earth in those days - at least that's what the Bible says. But, where are they? Did they ever really exist at all? When out-of-work math teacher Ethan McCloud is sent a mysterious box, he and his ex-girlfriend begin to unravel a mystery 10,000 years in the making-and he is the last hope to discovering the world's greatest conspiracy. Chased by both the Six-Fingered Man and the Council of David, Ethan must survive the chase...
10) The girl giant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Brennan is a giant, "a rare, organic blunder pressed into a dollhouse world," as she calls herself. Growing up in a small town, where even an ordinary person can’t simply fade into the background, there is no hiding the fact that Ruth is different: she can see it in the eyes of everyone around her, even her own parents.
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 8
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Fountas & Pinnell
L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Snow covers the kingdom, making it a perfect day for the Princess in Black and her friends to build snow monsters--until a huge foot smashes the monsters and everything else in its path. SQUASHY! Could a stomping giant be the biggest problem yet for the Princess in Black?"--Back cover.
13) Calamity Jack
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
144 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A platonic romance between a librarian and a teenage boy. The boy is James, who suffers from giantism--never stops growing--while she is Peggy, a spinster 14 years his senior. During their 10-year relationship she redoes a house and a car to fit him. Only when he dies is there sex--with his father.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume, unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Phoebe, fifteen, the daughter of a famous mother and unearthly father, suddenly begins experiencing radical changes as she enters one scene after another from 1950s and 60s science fiction movies.
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