Méndez, Alexandra V.
Summary: Jade is starting eighth grade in a new city--Atlanta. She just wants to go back to Chicago, where her friends are. Where her Abuela lives. There, Jade meets Itztli, an elderly storyteller who exists between dreams and reality. In the golden afternoons when Itztli appears, he steps out of the forest as a lithe, agile jaguar. But when he speaks to Jade, he is a wise old man who makes intricate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MENWhite, J. A.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHIOh, Axie
Summary: Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God's bride, in the hopes that one day the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHBlack, Holly
Summary: Cardan Greenbriar, High King of Elfhame, visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLADiCamillo, Kate
Summary: In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all, for the king of the land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DICOh, Axie
Summary: This enthralling feminist retelling of the classic Korean folktale "The Tale of Shim Cheong" is perfect for fans of Wintersong, Uprooted, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OHCalonita, Jen
Summary: Anna, Queen of Arendelle, has been tirelessly preparing for the Polar Night's Celebration that is held every year to welcome the time when the sun doesn't rise in the Polar Circle. She has been working so hard, her fiancé Kristoff suggests she take a night off to visit her sister Elsa, the Snow Queen. Anna loves the idea. Accompanied by Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf, Anna reunites with Elsa in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG DICMeyer, Marissa
Summary: When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MEYDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "There is one creature that the monks of the Chronicles of Sorrowing fear above all others: Answelica the goat. The monks fear her sharp teeth and her hard head and her wily ways. And so imagine Brother Edik's terror when he goes to feed Answelica one morning and finds a child in the pen with the demon goat. The child does not know where she came from. She does not know who her people are. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC DICDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DICCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DICMiller, Ben
Summary: When she discovers a portal to a fairy tale world hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, she discovers these aren't the happy-ever-after tales she knows and loves, but are darker and more dangerous and the characters need her help in defeating an evil witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILKaufman, Karin
Summary: "As a new mouse, Geraldine still struggles to be brave and good. And at night, when the Woolkins family gathers to listen to Papa read stories from the Book of Tales, she still tries to understand Very Very Big Hands, the creator of all - including the dreaded wolves of the Barren Land. But will she she ever stop longing to fly like a bird or to stride above the grasses like a fox? Will she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Winter Tree Books] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAUAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECervantes, Angela
Summary: "Rafael Fuentes isn't easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. Rafa's incarcerated mom is being released from jail soon, and will be coming to live with him, his sister, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023