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Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A king betrayed by his queen, vows to take a bride for one night only. In the morning she will face a terrible fate, and he will choose another. Nothing can change his course, until Shahrazad seeks to restore his heart with words.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier...
83) The storyteller
Author
Series
Riverman trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Along with stories, Keri Cleary records in her diary the strange and terrifying events surrounding the disappearance of Fiona Loomis and Alistair Cleary's efforts to find her in Aquavania, a world where wishes can nearly come true, as well as the repercussions of the shooting of Kyle Dwyer.
84) Grange House
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A Victorian young woman faces the social restrictions of marriage and yearns for something more as she spends her summer at a resort in Maine.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
This lively, inventive comic tale is set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and talking animals. Haroun's father is a storyteller but one day, the sea of stories dries up, so Haroun embarks on a journey to restore the sea of stories and save the world from silence.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Butternut is a young, anxious rabbit and master storyteller who makes friends outside her burrow - even though she was cautioned not to - and now must decide whether she will remain loyal to her family or help other animals in need"--Provided by publisher.
Butternut, a young rabbit who loves stories, makes friends among the other animals and birds of Milkweed Meadow, and convinces them to help her rescue a litter of orphaned coyote pups.
88) Kamishibai man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.
89) Three by the sea
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story.
Author
Series
Graveyard Girls volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five twelve-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they will never forget.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House. The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship's captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl...
93) The end (almost)
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Donut the bear is told his story is over and he has to leave, he employs trickery so the story can go on.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Whatever Gets You through the Night" is an irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights and a wildly inspired exploration of the timeless art of storytelling. Award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu reimagines how Sheherezade saved Baghdad's virgins and her own life through a heroic feat of storytelling--one that kept the Persian king Sharyar hanging in agonizing narrative and erotic suspense for 1001 nights. For Sheherezade, the end of...
98) Ash & Bramble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
After Pin and Shoe escape from servitude in the Godmother's fortress, they learn that she has taken control of Story, which can warp the world around it, forcing people into its shape, and they decide to try to break out and create their own destinies in this tale that features many familiar characters.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money - she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora - and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends, neighbors, and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell one last story so that eight women can keep both hope and themselves alive. Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest hurricanes in recorded history,...
100) The little white owl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little white owl earns the friendship of the more colorful owls he has discovered by entertaining them with beautiful stories.