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11) After midnight
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c1989
Language
English
Description
According to Professor Edward Derek, the only way to truly understand the psychology of fear is to be afraid...very afraid! So he invites his class home for a night of three spine-chilling stories: First, a married couple loses their heads in a haunted house; next, ravenous guard dogs prowl for cute coeds; and, finally, a psychopathic killer stalks a terrified telephone operator. But as the frightened freshman get a hands-on lesson in real fear, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
The Pied Piper is brought in to save the village of Hamelin from being overrun by rats, but when the town refuses to pay him, he extracts a terrible revenge.
Sumario en español: Un flautista aparece para librar al pueblo de Hamelín el cual está infestado de ratas. Cumplida su misión, cuando los habitantes del pueblo se niegan a pagarle su recompensa, el flautista desata una terrible venganza contra ellos.
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Includes traditional Spanish folktales from New Mexico which were collected from the oral tradition of the 1930s, mostly from the common people living in the towns, villages, farms, and ranches of the upper Rio Grande Valley in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
Incluye tradicional español folktales nuevo Méjico que ser recoger oral tradición año 30, sobre todo common pueblo vivir en ciudad, aldea, granja, y rancho superior Río Grande...
18) The honey jar
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this book - the companion volume to The Girl From Chimel - Nobel Peace Prize winner and Maya activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum returns to the world of her childhood.
The Honey Jar brings us the ancient stories her grandparents told her when she was a little girl, and we can imagine her listening to them by the fire at night. These Maya tales include creation myths, a classic story about the magic twins (which can also be found in the Popol Vuh), explanations...
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.