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Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Skeeter, the handyman of a hotel once belonging to his father, agrees to watch his sister's two children and finds his life changed when the stories he tells the kids at bedtime begin to come true.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "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...
10) The thrill club
Author
Publisher
Pocket Bks
Pub. Date
1994 4]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148p
Language
English
Description
Everyone admires Talia Blanton's frightening stories, in which her friends play starring roles, until the stories start coming true
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker, pairing readers with that perfect book. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city; now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village, buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile. She drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling. Along the way Nina discovers there's plenty of adventure,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.
13) Toys in space
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space travel, and a strange alien.
14) Witch Hazel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl is transformed by the magical power of stories through the shared memories of her grandmother Hazel"--
15) Scary stories
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An imp, a goblin, and a scalawag get together to tell the scariest stories they can think of.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Hawaiian grandmother tells her granddaughter a favorite story about how much she loves her, in a story that includes a glossary with definitions and explanations of Hawaiian words and customs.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having survived a shipwreck, a princess tries to tell a prince a story whose ending he does not know and thus qualify for his hand in marriage.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
xii, 319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When a knight's story of battling a dragon is stalled by the dragon's vacation, he discovers the One-Stop Story Shop, which might be what he needs to finish his tale, but maybe not exactly the way he had planned.