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When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
Lexile Level: 480
Guided Reading Level: L

Detective Doggedly, a pair of cows, and a sheep who looks very familiar are all nearby each time three pigs get in trouble, but the big bad wolf is conspicuously absent.
Lexile Level: 370
Guided Reading Level: L

In this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the sixth century B.C., Rhodopis, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen.
Lexile Level: 620
Guided Reading Level: O

A fairy grants a small, skinny prince a change in appearance and the chance to go to the Palace Disco.
Lexile Level: 630
Guided Reading Level: N

Retells the Zapotec legend of Lucia Zenteno, a beautiful woman with magical powers who is exiled from a mountain village and takes its water away in punishment.
Lexile Level: 860
Guided Reading Level: O

An illustrated selection of the traditional rhymes.
Lexile Level: NP
Guided Reading Level: O

A southwestern adaptation of “The Three Little Pigs.”
Lexile Level: 740
Guided Reading Level: L

The efforts of a kind-hearted beggar boy bring an end to the drought that has plagued the kingdom of a haughty princess.
Lexile Level: 550
Guided Reading Level: O

In an effort to cure her own baby of his incessant crying, a mother inadvertently starts an epidemic of crying babies in her village.

Stuck up high in her tower, Rapunzel is having a difficult time hearing her handsome prince’s requests and so, instead of her long locks, throws down everything else until she finally understands clearly what needs to be done to have him successfully complete his rescue mission.
Guided Reading Level: N

One of an old man’s turnips grows to such an enormous size that he needs the help of his wife, a little girl, a dog, a cat, and a mouse to pull it up.
Lexile Level: 180
Guided Reading Level: H