Blair Lent
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
A tall tale of seafaring adventure, based on an old New England legend in several different versions. When John Tabor is shipwrecked on a desert isle, he is rescued by a queer old man who takes him for a real "Nantucket sleigh-ride" on the back of a whale.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1968.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
[1992], c1968
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
12) The angry moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
An Indian girl insults the moon and is held prisoner by him until her friend reaches the sky country to rescue her.