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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
NOW ON BROADWAY
The international bestseller and modern classic of adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling is now an award-winning play.
After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
Soon
...4) Zen ghosts
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan, includes an author's note with a history of the story and facts about Zen koans.
6) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Zen books (Jon J Muth) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
7) Banished
Author
Series
Storymakers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a Kansas hospital, Princess Dorthea of Emerald struggles to regain her memory of what propelled her out of the land of Story, and how to get home, while Rexi, aided by Excalibur, continues to protect Story from the Wicked Witch.
8) The octopus
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.
Author
Series
Storyteller trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
In the icy land of prehistoric Alaska, two heroic storytellers bring to life the final chapter of their ancestors: the star-crossed lovers Chakliux and Aqamdax
A handsome young tribal warrior and sage, Yikaas has traveled across the sea to hear stories of the Whale Hunter and the Sea Hunter peoples. Around the fire, Qumalix, a beguiling and beautiful storyteller, barely old enough to be a wife, catches the eye of Yikaas, and so begins their...
A handsome young tribal warrior and sage, Yikaas has traveled across the sea to hear stories of the Whale Hunter and the Sea Hunter peoples. Around the fire, Qumalix, a beguiling and beautiful storyteller, barely old enough to be a wife, catches the eye of Yikaas, and so begins their...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, Brother Edik nurses her back to health, but when he uncovers her dangerous secret, she is sent away into the world with a goat and a boy.
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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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
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
{32} p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl tells Bitty Baby a story about dragons and princesses while they wait for Daddy to finish talking on the phone so he can read them a bedtime story.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
121 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After hearing a fictional tale about Hitler's daughter, Mark, an Australian boy, wonders what it would be like if someone he loved and trusted turned out to be evil.
14) Hour of the bees
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
16) Icefall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. Pew-blind, as old...
19) The winter room
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
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