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Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Scheherazade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, who tells her husband, the king, a different story every night to keep him from fulfilling his plan to kill her in the morning.
2) The heir
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Series
Formats
Description
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
3) Hoodoo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
4) Starlings
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Formats
Description
"In her first collection, award-winning novelist Jo Walton delivers both subtle legends and reinvented realities. An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
In this You Choose adventure Little Red Riding Hood can be a girl in an urban park, a boy in the middle of a war, or the more traditional girl in the forest--the choice is up to the reader.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Description
"In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com.
In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom....
10) Fables
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 3
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
v. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Who killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. But only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case, and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 1010 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of a young robot boy modeled after the son of a research scientist. This atomic-powered robot becomes a reluctant superhero who fights for justice and peace, for humans and robots alike.
12) Charles Dickens
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 696 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports ; 25 cm.
Description
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens' career as a writer...
13) Sunny day
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Folkways
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
1 CD sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Description
"Inspired by the twenty-three "tales," Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multifaceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable country woman. This dramatic narrative charts her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman--so deeply unusual for the Victorian...
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