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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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
Series
Mother Bruce volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosing a main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Desmond, Andres, and their ghost-friend Zax take turns trying to tell the scariest story of all while gathered around the campfire on a camping trip.
Author
Series
Graveyard Girls volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five twelve-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they will never forget.
Author
Series
Henry books (Davide Cali) volume 4
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Henry and Ali tell their teacher a wild outer space tale to explain why they do not have their homework on the solar system.
11) Chasing Bigfoot
Author
Publisher
Reycraft
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Chooch Tenkiller is not thrilled to be spending some of his summer with his Cherokee story-telling uncles and cousin Janees at a convention in North Carolina. While there, the uncles want to visit Judaculla Rock, a place of spiritual significance to the Cherokee people. Little does Chooch know that he has his own connection to the rock--a connection that could put him in mortal danger."--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
Author
Series
[Small-girl] volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Margaret Murphy's first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. The truth is too much for one little girl to endure, so she wills herself to forget and replaces the unbearable memories with imagined stories of faith and magic that always end happily. But a strange creature begins to wind its way into Margaret's made-up tales, one that will not rest until Margaret faces the truth about her role in Agnes's death.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In twelfth century Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik begins to marry and behead a new bride each night. Furious...
Author
Publisher
LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.
Did you know that Jack was looking for hot dogs when he climbed up the beanstalk? Or that he was led there by a talking fox named Wendy? Ok, maybe that's not how the real story goes, but when Estella's dad, Andrew, tells her bedtime stories, she's always in for a bit of twist! A hilarious...
Author
Series
Graveyard Girls volume 2
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's been a month since the Graveyard Girls--Gemma, Whisper, Sophie, Frannie, and Zuzu--discovered Silas Hoke's empty grave. A month, and no answers. That changes when messages from the other side start to creep up on the Graveyard Girls. Who is trying to reach them . . . and why? There might be one person with some answers but she's a mortician... with a deadly secret. Meanwhile, straight-A student Sophie is spending way more time hanging out with...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lana loves stories. Especially the ones she and her brother, Harrison, share in their make-believe games. But when Harrison decides he's too grown-up to play with Lana she finds herself feeling lonely. Until something magical happens ... Hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, Lana discovers a portal to a fairytale world! But these aren't the happy-ever-after fairytales that Lana knows, they are darker and more dangerous, and the characters...
20) Los cuentos de Pura Belpré: de cómo una puertorriqueña transformó las bibliotecas con sus historias
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
A lyrical, vibrant tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual story times. Pura's abuela always has a cuento to share. She crows ¡Qui-qui-ri-quí! for Señor Gallo, booms Borom, Borom for Señor Zapo, and tells of a beautiful cockroach who loves a mouse. Pura clings to these stories like coquíes cling to green leaves. When Pura grows up and moves from Puerto Rico to Harlem,...
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