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Author
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
c2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Myths and legends from Central and South America. Features include information about the history and culture behind the myths, pronunciations, lists of deities, word glossary, further information, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award-winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in supernatural settings provide remarkable insights into regional values and culture. The first of the stories, "A Tale of Three Tails," tells of an age when the rat had a tail like a horse, the rabbit had a...