TY - BOOK AU - Dahl, Roald, AU - Burkert,Nancy Ekholm TI - James and the Giant Peach: a children's story SN - 0394912829 U1 - F DAH PY - 1961/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Insects KW - Fiction KW - Boys KW - Voyages and travels KW - Aunts KW - FICTION / Fantasy / General KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Humorous / General N1 - Grades 3 - 5 RL: 6.7 Lexile MeasureĀ®: 870L DRA: 40 Guided Reading: Q N2 - Young James Henry Trotter loses his parents and is forced to live with his evil aunts. Luckily, he is given magic crystals, which he accidentally spills on his aunts' decrepit peach tree. One of the peaches begins to grow, and grow, and grow. Finally, James climbs into the peach and it rolls away from his aunts' yard and his miserably lonely life. With the giant peach, he begins a new life, making friends along the way with hilarious characters like the Grasshopper and the Earthworm ER -