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22) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
540L
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. "Michael, " said Karl. "There's a really big bear in the backyard." To Addie he tells a story about the value of material goods. To Michael he pushes the boundaries of good and bad. And to Karl he demonstrates what it means to hold on to frustration. With graceful art and simple stories that are filled with love...
25) Ash & Bramble
Author
Series
Ash and Bramble volume 1
Lexile Measure
750L
Formats
Summary
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.
26) Zen ghosts
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Formats
Summary
On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 8
Lexile Measure
620L
Summary
While preparing for a unit on storytelling, the mermaids of Trident Academy learn of a legendary pirate treasure in their own city and Pearl decides to find it, despite a warning that it is guarded by a ghost.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird Greene volume 1
Lexile Measure
660L
Formats
Summary
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.
30) Moonglow
Author
Summary
A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Summary
Gilgamesh is a rich, spare, and evocative novel of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance, a debut that marks the emergence of a world-class talent. It is 1937, and the modern world is waiting to erupt. On a farm in rural Australia, seventeen-year-old Edith lives with her mother and her sister, Frances. One afternoon two men, her English cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram, arrive-taking the long way home from...
32) The giant-slayer
Author
Lexile Measure
700L
Summary
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.
33) The storyteller
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
700L
Formats
Summary
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.
35) Drawn together
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Summary
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
36) Big Bunny
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
A parent and child share the telling of a story about a giant bunny who eats carrots--and maybe trucks and bridges (according to the child).
37) Campfire capers
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
490L
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.
39) Campfire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Summary
Sixteen-year-old Maddie's camping trip with family and friends in a remote mountain location turns deadly as stories told around the campfire begin coming true.
