Rodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODCrowther, Kitty
Summary: First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when it's bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhara who seeks the forest's most delicious blackberries. In the third we meet Bo, the little man with the big overcoat, who finds it hard to sleep. Finally, Little Bear falls asleep,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2018
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Summary: "Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGFarber, Erica
Summary: "Huckle and his friends are going camping. They have tents, fishing poles, sleeping bags, and snacks. They roast marshmallows and someone tells a kooky, spooky ghost story. Will they sleep in their tents all night long?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARMéndez, 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 MENReef, Cora
Summary: While exploring Coral Jungle, Simon Seahorse and his best friend Olive Octopus encounter a shark named Zelda who invites them to her mother's birthday party at Shark Point--and Simon not only has a unique school report, but the makings of an exciting story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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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 OHGriffiths, Andy
Summary: Andy and Terry live in a 26-storey treehouse. It has a bumper car rink, a skate ramp, an antigravity chamber, an ice cream parlor with 78 flavors, and the Maze of Doom. This time, the two friends have a whole week to finish their next book, and Andy even knows what it should be about; the story of how he and Terry first met. But, life is never boring in the treehouse, and emergency shark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: As a group of refugees huddles together in a rubber dinghy in the middle of the sea at night, one of them uses his violin to tell a story of how the instrument was invented and of a white stallion that ran like the wind, weaving their stories together and giving them hope for freedom in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LEWStauffacher, Sue
Summary: "When 10-year-old Thomas's mother, who suffers from depression, disappears, he creates a fantasy narrative in which his mother is safe and sets in motion a path of healing, not just for himself, but for his father and aunt as well"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STATurk, Evan
Summary: In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TURWhite, 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: JFIC WHIDimopoulos, Elaine
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DIMFraillon, Zana
Summary: Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, Subhi has only ever known life behind the fences. But his world is far bigger than that -- every night, the magical Night Sea from his mother's stories brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories. And as he grows, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFunk, Josh
Summary: Jack is not fond of the bossy narrator of his fairy tale! When Jack is told to trade his beloved cow Bessie for some magic beans, throw the beans out the window, climb the ENORMOUS beanstalk that sprouts overnight, and steal from a GIANT, he decides this fairy tale is getting out of control. In fact, he doesn't want to follow the story line at all. Who says Jack needs to enter a life of daring,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Little Simon Seahorse likes to tell stories, and if some of them are embellished, it just makes for a better story; but when his lucky pearl disappears after Sea and Tell at Coral Grove Elementary he and his friends have a real-life treasure to find -- and of course it will become a super story to tell, one that hardly needs embellishment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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Summary: To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WEI (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Bonilla, Lindsay
Summary: Griffin's grandmother showers him with love, encouragement, and a world of stories, all of which stand him in good stead when it is time for her to depart and he is left to tell his own stories--and hers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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Summary: "A young girl hears stories from her aunties and then begins to imagine all the possibilities for her future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHAKeller, Tae
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARLehrhaupt, Adam
Summary: What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEHPennypacker, Sara
Summary: What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the towns librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever. From an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PENYolen, Jane
Summary: A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992