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"A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness"--
The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers...
64) Wrong Way summer
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Twelve-year-old Claire, already fed up with her father's fantastical stories, is outraged when he sells their house and moves her and her little brother into a converted van for an adventure.
66) Eat, Leo! Eat!
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On Sunday, Leo and and family gather at Nonna's house for a big lunch. Everyone is hungry--except for Leo. Then Nonna starts telling a story that includes the star-shaped pasta in her soup. The following week, she continues the story with a different kind of pasta, and Leo's appetite for the story--and Nonna's food--grows and grows.
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2024.
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"According to the narrator of this book, a unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark were riding a bicycle. But they say that's not true, and they just want to take a load off for once. They're tired of being told what to do by the bossy storyteller! And who is a reader supposed to believe, anyway--a book's narrator or its characters?" --book jacket
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Not-so-tiny tales of Simon Seahorse volume 2
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[2021]
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First Little Simon paperback edition.
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English
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While exploring Coral Jungle, Simon Seahorse and his best friend Olive Octopus encounter a shark named Zelda who invites them to her mother's birthday party at Shark Point--and Simon not only has a unique school report, but the makings of an exciting story.
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[2010]
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A little white owl earns the friendship of the more colorful owls he has discovered by entertaining them with beautiful stories.
"One day, a little white owl sets off to see the world. When he meets some beautiful, colorful owls, he can't wait to share his toast and all of his happy stories. But these pretty owls do not want to be friends with a plain white owl like him..."--Cover.
71) Banished
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Storymakers volume 3
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In a Kansas hospital, Princess Dorthea of Emerald struggles to regain her memory of what propelled her out of the land of Story, and how to get home, while Rexi, aided by Excalibur, continues to protect Story from the Wicked Witch.
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"Homer is about to fail out of school unless he can come up with a story. An epic story. Oh, and it needs to be written in Dactylic Hexameter. No big deal ... except Homer has no idea what that is. But the Greek god Hermes has a story that needs a storyteller, and with a trick of immortal magic, he sends Homer and his best friend Dory back ten years to the end of the Trojan War. They meet up with the Greek hero Odysseus along with an entire crew of...
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Each year, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple, Hassan hopes to light upon the details that will explain what happened to them, and to absolve his own brother, who is in prison for their disappearance. But is this storytelling ritual a attempt to uncover the truth or is it intended instead...
75) Hour of the bees
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2016.
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This powerful debut novel delicately blurs the line between truth and fiction as Carol unravels the fantastical stories of her mentally ill grandfather. When she and her family move to his deserted ranch in order to transfer him to a care home, Carol struggles to cope with the suffocating heat and the effects of her grandfather's Alzheimer's. Bees seem to be following her around, but the drought means this is impossible. She must be imagining things....
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"This Is the Path the Wolf Took is a funny, endearing story about a boy named Gabe who doesn't like the scary parts of stories, so when he "reads" books to his little sister, he leaves those parts out. He tells her the story of the Little Red Riding Hood, and as soon as the wolf shows up, a knight in shining armor (Sir Gabriel) swoops in to the rescue. He tells the story of the Three Little Pigs, but just as the wolf is about to blow the first house...
77) Simon says
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2021.
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First Little Simon paperback edition.
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English
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Little Simon Seahorse likes to tell stories, and if some of them are embellished, it just makes for a better story; but when his lucky pearl disappears after Sea and Tell at Coral Grove Elementary he and his friends have a real-life treasure to find -- and of course it will become a super story to tell, one that hardly needs embellishment.
78) Mouse tales
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1972.
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First edition.
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English
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Papa Mouse has a funny, exciting bedtime story for each of his seven mouse boys. "Will evoke chuckles of glee from preschool listeners and beginning readers".-Booklist. Three-color illustrations. Seven mouse boys lie awake one night, and they ask their Papa to tell them a story. Papa does better than that--he tells them seven stories, one for each boy. Amusing drawings and text provide beginner readers with a collection of tales about the adventures...
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[2009]
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Gooney Bird Greene: A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
Gooney Bird and the room mother: Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving...
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"On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, the regulars are telling stories when a wounded stranger enters carrying the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Many secrets must be revealed before the girl's identity can be known"--
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