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Series
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Super Fly Guy: Fly Guy loves the school lunchroom. But when the lunch ladies discover there's a fly in the cafeteria, chaos ensues! Though Fly Guy makes a mess of things, he also shows his powers as a Super Fly Guy!
Clifford's birthday party: Everyone wants to give their special friend Clifford a special birthday present. Finally, Clifford gets the best present of all--his family there to celebrate with him.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The story wars are all around us. They are the struggle to be heard in a world of media noise and clamor. Today, most brand messages and mass appeals for causes are drowned out before they even reach us. But a few consistently break through the din, using the only tool that has ever moved minds and changed behavior -- great stories. With insights from mythology, advertising history, evolutionary biology, and psychology, viral storyteller and advertising...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with...
487) Campfire stories
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Martha, Helen, T.D., Alice, Truman, and Skits pitch a tent in Helen's back yard for the night, they expect to have a super-fun sleepover. But it doesn't take long for the s'mores (hold the chocolate, extra marshmallow) and the hand shadow puppet ideas to run out. What's this bored group of kids to do on a dark, quiet, summer night? Tell creepy campfire stories, of course!"--
488) The book thief
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story itself is simple. Boy gets up, boy goes to school, boy comes home from school, boy goes to bed. Boy seems a bit grumpy, until the end of the day when he comes home to his cat, who he clearly loves. The boys story is told in a traditional picture book style--in the meantime, the cat's story is told in graphic panels. Throughout the entire book, the boy tells the reader how much he dislikes stories, all kinds of stories inspired by his surroundings...
Author
Publisher
Neal-Schuman Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Working with children on a daily basis in the Youth Services Dept. of the Greenville Co. (SC) Library System inspired Bane to develop "Let's Pretend" programs using books, songs, fingerplays, flannel board stories, and props to guide children through play focusing on the imagination and fostering the development of thinking, language, social, and physical skills. In this text, she assembles 50 fun and exciting "Let's Pretend" programs, each consisting...
Series
Publisher
Casablanca Kids
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Overachieving "Jimbo the Frog" participates in every contest he can, just to prove he's a special frog, and he encounters some funny adventures along the way! In "Weaving a Web" a young spider turns to other creatures to learn creative ways to weave, and Stegasaurus Doris and Iguanodon Donna give each other quite a fright in "The Meanest, Nastiest Creature in the World." Only Triceratops Pops can clear up the misunderstanding.
494) American tall tales
Author
Publisher
Greathall Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Renowned storyteller Jim Weiss brings you lively versions of classic American tall tales, from stories of giant lumberjacks to legends of fearless cowboys. You will laugh out loud as you meet Paul Bunyan, taller than the trees and mightier than the rivers; Johnny Appleseed, whose gentle generosity makes him a beloved legend; Pecos Bill, whose outrageous Texas-sized exploits make him the greatest of all cowboys; and Jim's original tale of the Wild...