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Author
Publisher
TUTTLE
Pub. Date
1958
Language
English
Description
This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories-providing insight into a rich literary culture. Playful goblins with long noses, magic tea kettles and a delightfully brave hero who just happens to be one inch tall-these are some of the wonderful characters you'll meet in this collection of the 20 best-loved Japanese children's stories. Drawn from folklore and passed down for generations,...
Author
Series
Publisher
August House LittleFolk
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this British variant of a traditional tale, a great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog rescues a rich man from bandits and demands that the man bring his beautiful daughter to live in his castle.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the classic story, Little Red lives in a village near the Great Wall, trains in kung fu, and must save her grandmother and village from a mighty dragon. Inclues an author's note discusses how this reimagining is influenced by Chinese mythology, symbolism, traditional medicine, and other elements of Compestine's heritage.
4) Sitka Rose
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A rhyming tale about a gal named Rose who sets out to find adventure in Alaska, where she rides a whale to Nome, digs out the Yukon River, and builds mountains out of the gold nuggets she mines.
5) The jumbies
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
6) Cinnamon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The parents of pearl-eyed princess Cinnamon offer a reward to anyone who can help their daughter speak, a plea answered by an exotic tiger who arrives at the palace, armed with knowledge of the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
August House LittleFolk
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the folktale of the gecko who complains to the village chief that the fireflies keep him awake at night but then learns that in nature all things are connected.
Author
Publisher
WestWinds Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this Southwestern version of Rumplestiltskin, Rosalinda is in debt to the strange little snake man Rattlestiltskin after he teaches her how to make tortillas so light they float in the air, but can she outsmart the trickster and keep her freedom?
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Chinese people often told stories that taught the listener about their culture. In this zodiac myth, the emperor names the years of the zodiac after the animals who win a race. The Chinese zodiac myth is retold in this brilliantly illustrated Chinese Myth. Short Tales is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades 3-6.
13) Bruja born
Author
Series
Brooklyn brujas volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Next in the Brooklyn Brujas series of fantasy novels that follow three witch born sisters as they develop their powers and battle magic in their hometown and the worlds beyond, from the author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina.
Lula must let go of the ghosts of her past to face the actual living dead of her present.
Lula Mortiz feels like an outsider. Her sister's newfound Encantrix powers have wounded her in ways
...14) 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...
15) The shady tree
Author
Series
Ping (Demi) volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ping returns and deals with the selfish Tan Tan, who owns a beautiful house and a beautiful shady tree, but who does not share, so Ping turns Tan Tan's greed into his own gain, but remains true to his generous nature.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Chapters, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Malia, Dante, and Ivan are ready to take on the evil forces controlling 13th Street. But then Ivan is kidnapped by giant--and stinky!--spiders. Can Malia and Dante save him from their sticky webs?
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this companion to Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, Paul Fleischman and Julie Paschkis turn to the universal story of creation"--
The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together the story of creation, including elements from many cultures.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a girl who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within"--
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