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Language
English
Description
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones El Naranjo
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Mara is a young girl that discovers a notebook in her father's shirt detailing his encounter with The Cuentófago, a mysterious entity in a trench coat and wide brimmed hat rumored to be feeding on stories from people all over Mexico.
9) Mister Pip
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
13) Ash & Bramble
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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.
14) Zen ghosts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining "absolutely true" stories. There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What...
16) My ol' man
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the author's memories of her youth, a girl recalls the special summer spent in Michigan with her yarn-spinning father and a magic rock.
17) Imani's music
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Imani, an African grasshopper, brings music to the new world when he travels aboard a slave ship.
19) Kamishibai man
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
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