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Publisher
August House Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-five traditional stories explaining why an animal or plant or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Following each story are storytelling tips and short modern, scientific explanations for the subject of the story.
4) Nightbooks
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Alex?s original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he?ll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He?s loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don?t have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he?s desperate for a different ending?and a way out of this twisted place. This modern spin on the Scheherazade story is perfect...
5) Wolf story
Author
Language
English
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Description
A young father tells his five-year-old son humorous variations on the theme of a hen escaping the clutches of a wily wolf.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
9) Battlesong
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
While Gwin, a Fetcher, and her family defy the Devouts by sharing song and story, the Oyster's crew and the Sunkers continue fighting to bring light back to the dark world.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A girl made of stone, forever twelve years old, has outlasted the father who carved her and gave her life, but now the magical marks that animate her are fading and she must leave her mountain home and find help in the valley below if she wants her story--and those of her family--to continue.
11) Icefall
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst.
12) The giant-slayer
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.
Author
Series
Scary stories for young foxes volume 2
Language
English
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2024-2025 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
All Hallows Read - Children's Books
Caves (Kids) Summer 2022
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All Hallows Read - Children's Books
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"A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness"--
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 2
Language
English
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Description
An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
16) Fishbone's song
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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2023-2024 OBOB 3rd-5th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
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When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Butternut is a young, anxious rabbit and master storyteller who makes friends outside her burrow - even though she was cautioned not to - and now must decide whether she will remain loyal to her family or help other animals in need"--Provided by publisher.
Butternut, a young rabbit who loves stories, makes friends among the other animals and birds of Milkweed Meadow, and convinces them to help her rescue a litter of orphaned coyote pups.
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A machine capable of writing and illustrating entire books gives Andy and Terry plenty of time to pet dinosaurs, toast marshmallows over the leaping fires of an active volcano, and enjoy the other wonders of their newly-expanded tree house.
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