Heikkilä, Cecilia
Summary: Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEIHiggins, Ryan T.
Summary: "Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGOh, Axie
Summary: Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God's bride, in the hopes that one day the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHCrowther, Kitty
Summary: First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when it's bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhara who seeks the forest's most delicious blackberries. In the third we meet Bo, the little man with the big overcoat, who finds it hard to sleep. Finally, Little Bear falls asleep,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CROWhite, J. A.
Summary: Alex's original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he'll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He's loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don't have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he's desperate for a different ending--and a way out of this twisted place. This modern spin on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHIRodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODMartel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARLewis, Gill
Summary: As a group of refugees huddles together in a rubber dinghy in the middle of the sea at night, one of them uses his violin to tell a story of how the instrument was invented and of a white stallion that ran like the wind, weaving their stories together and giving them hope for freedom in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LEWBlack, Holly
Summary: Cardan Greenbriar, High King of Elfhame, visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLAPatchett, Ann
Summary: 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 with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PATPhelps, Bonnie
Summary: A girl enjoys story time with her grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Powerkids Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN PHEDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all, for the king of the land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DICZusak, Markus
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZUSMéndez, Alexandra V.
Summary: Jade is starting eighth grade in a new city--Atlanta. She just wants to go back to Chicago, where her friends are. Where her Abuela lives. There, Jade meets Itztli, an elderly storyteller who exists between dreams and reality. In the golden afternoons when Itztli appears, he steps out of the forest as a lithe, agile jaguar. But when he speaks to Jade, he is a wise old man who makes intricate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MENFarber, Erica
Summary: "Huckle and his friends are going camping. They have tents, fishing poles, sleeping bags, and snacks. They roast marshmallows and someone tells a kooky, spooky ghost story. Will they sleep in their tents all night long?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARGriffiths, Andy
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GRITurk, Evan
Summary: In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE TURLaRochelle, David.
Summary: A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARReef, Cora
Summary: Simon gets carried away storytelling and immediately regrets announcing his plan to climb Mount Aquarius, but his friends are so excited for him that he does not have to heart to tell them the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REEAnatol, Giselle Liza
Summary: In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANADimopoulos, Elaine
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DIMReef, Cora
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REEMullarkey, Lisa
Summary: Esha and her best friends, Avery, Bree, and Jaelyn, are set for a great summer at Storm Cliff Stables improving their riding skills--until Esha tells a ghost story around the campfire that has everybody jumping at shadows, and blaming the imaginary ghost for anything that goes wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MULCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MULMuth, Jon J.
Summary: When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2005