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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
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"Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"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...
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
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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.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"School is tough. School is scary. School is EERIE. No one knows this better than Davis and Emily. But they're not scared of school because of tough tests or merciless vice-principals. No, they're scared because their teacher wants her students to present the class with the spookiest, most chilling stories they can think of"--
15) 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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Formats
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
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"According to the narrator of this book, a unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark were riding a bicycle. But they say that's not true, and they just want to take a load off for once. They're tired of being told what to do by the bossy storyteller! And who is a reader supposed to believe, anyway--a book's narrator or its characters?"--Book jacket.
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.
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