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Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Drawn from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,000 copies have...
Author
Language
English
Description
More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups gives us a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent comes tales of creation and love; heroes and war; animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. In addition to mining the best folkloric sources of the nineteenth century, the editors have also included a broad selection of contemporary Native American voices. With black-and-white illustrations throughoutSelected...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Mexican folktales invite us into a magical world of enchantment and transformation, populated by cats and kings, priests and tricksters, ordinary people and supernatural beings. A witch turns seven brothers into seven little blue oxen; the Virgin Mary rewards a good girl with a gold star on her forehead but adorns her wicked stepsister with a pair of horns; a young man, thrown overboard to drown, is rescued by a mysterious shadow. Drawing from authentic...
15) The seven ravens
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A little girl walks to the end of the world to find her seven brothers and free them from enchantment.
19) Cloaked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.