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Author
Series
Graveyard Girls volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five twelve-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they will never forget.
Author
Series
Henry books (Davide Cali) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's a race to do homework-in space! But first, there's a spaceship jam. Then there's the moon detour, the Mars alien exploration, and a stop on the gravity-defying International Space Station. And that's just the beginning! Henry and Ali want to get their homework done-they really do! But how are they supposed to study the solar system when they seem to be swept up in an endless series of interstellar surprises?"--publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
Author
Series
Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Empress of Salt and Fortune Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
46) A squiggly story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...
Author
Series
Scary stories for young foxes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness.
The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her little brother Tyler is nervous about his first day of school, Pinky Dinky Doo tells him a story about the time she and her friends had really bad hair days when school pictures were scheduled.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 14
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
57 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Grandpa's fanciful tall tales of ticklish worms, cows, and toes help three rambunctious children get ready for bed.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the first annual meeting of WOOF--Words of Our Friends--assorted dogs preserve their heritage by sharing tales of canines throughout history, including Abu, who ruled all of Egypt except for one pesky cat, and Zippy, who simply must find the squeaky toy.
53) Drawn together
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 310L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
54) Three by the sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story.
55) Toys in space
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space travel, and a strange alien.
Author
Series
Eoin Colfer's Legend of -- volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
101 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every Saturday, while helping polish the lens of the lighthouse his grandfather tends, nine-year-old Will tells a tale he hopes will top Grandad's, but Grandad always wins until Dad reminds Will of a long-forgotten escapade with his brother.
57) The snail house
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 18 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grandma tells Michael, Hannah, and their baby brother the story of three children who shrink to such a small size that they decide to live in a snail's shell.
58) Kamishibai man
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.
59) The SOS file
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
71, [3] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The students in Mr. Magro's class submit stories for the SOS file about their biggest emergencies, and then they read them aloud for extra credit.
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman recalls childhood visits to her grandparents' ranch in Mexico, where she and her brother played with her cousins and listened to the stories of an old Indian ranch hand.
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