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241) Maya
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The electricity in Maya's house has gone out again. Worse, she is afraid of the dark -- and her fear has been even worse since her father died. Now it feels as if the darkness will never go away. Maya's mother distracts her with a legend about the banyan tree, which saved the world from the first monsoon by drinking up the floodwaters, and growing tall and strong. Later that night, unsettled by the noises around her, Maya revisits the story in her...
Author
Series
Graveyard girls volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's been a month since the Graveyard Girls--Gemma, Whisper, Sophie, Frannie, and Zuzu--discovered Silas Hoke's empty grave. A month, and no answers. That changes when messages from the other side start to creep up on the Graveyard Girls. Who is trying to reach them . . . and why? There might be one person with some answers but she's a mortician... with a deadly secret. Meanwhile, straight-A student Sophie is spending way more time hanging out with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición en español.
Language
Español
Description
"Gerald es cuidadoso. Piggie no lo es. Piggie no puede dejar de sonreír. Gerald puede. A Gerald le preocupa que Piggie no tenga que hacerlo. Gerald y Piggie son los mejores amigos. ¡En me rompí el trompa! Gerald le cuenta a Piggie la larga y loca historia de romper su baúl. ¿Terminará Piggie con una larga y loca historia propia?"--Libreriainternacional.com
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Jamie quiere que le lean un cuento antes de ir a dormir. Pero no uno cualquiera. Quiere que aparezcan un príncipe, un oso y una bruja. ¡O mejor, muchos osos! ¡Y una princesa! ¡Y que en lugar de ser el príncipe el que rescate a la princesa, que sea al revés! Bueno. Quizá no. Escrito por Alastair Chisholm e ilustrado por Jez Tuya, este cuento sacará una carcajada a grandes y pequeños. El príncipe y la bruja y la ladrona y los osos es...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
In the ancient Indian kingdom of Kasmira, stories don’t begin with “once upon a time.” Instead, Kasmiris start a woman’s story with those who came before her: her parents, grandparents, ancestors. For fourteen-year-old Reya Kandhari, her story always starts the same: with the fabled line of Bookweavers, tracing centuries back to the lost Yogis—the mythical guardians of Kasmiri culture who created the world itself. As a result, Reya’s...
Author
Series
Crabby book volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It is late and Crabby just wants to sleep, but Plankton keeps Crabby awake with questions and chatter--until a request for a bedtime story takes an unexpected turn.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"This feast of Middle Eastern folklore from an award-winning Iraqi storyteller is paired with vibrant cut-paper art. The twenty fables and folktales in this illustrated storybook have taken a long journey. Many have roots that stretch across Europe, Asia, and Africa, but when award-winning writer and gatherer of tales Rodaan Al Galidi learned them in his homeland of Iraq, it was as Arabic folktales and as part of the Arabic storytelling tradition....
251) Telephone tales
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Every night, at nine o'clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who often travels for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story. Set in the 20th century era of pay phones, each story has to be told in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's the story of a carousel so...
253) Max's words
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Heir to the wise Daniel, Hâsib is a young woodcutter promised to a great future. When his greedy companions abandon him in the middle of the forest, he meets the Queen of Serpents. She then tells her story, a fabulous adventure filled with gods and demons, princes and prophets. From Kabul to Cairo, journeys intertwine with intrigues and spiritual quests while the fabulous nights follow one another. An enchanting and intricately designed interpretation...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni?s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal?return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni?s health?Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they...
Author
Series
Treehouse volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry live in a 26-storey treehouse. It has a bumper car rink, a skate ramp, an antigravity chamber, an ice cream parlor with 78 flavors, and the Maze of Doom. This time, the two friends have a whole week to finish their next book, and Andy even knows what it should be about; the story of how he and Terry first met. But, life is never boring in the treehouse, and emergency shark operations, giant storms, and wooden pirate heads are just the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has thirteen new levels including a chocolate waterfall, a nonerupting active volcano, an opera house, a baby dinosaur petting zoo, Andy and Terry's Believe it or Else! museum, a not very merry merry-go-round, a boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, an X-Ray room, a disco with light up dance floor, the world's scariest roller coaster, and a top secret 39th level that hasn't even been finished yet!
260) Akane-banashi: 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Language
English
Description
Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
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