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22) The Jack tales
Author
Publisher
Callaway
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Enter the fantastic world of one of America's greatest living storytellers where wicked giants and enchanted animals pursue and entice Jack, an everyman hero and trickster. These three traditional tales relate the antics and misadventures of a poor mountain boy whose innocence, ingenuity, and luck enable him to outwit the wicked forces of the world around him.
23) Chicken Little
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the classic story of Chicken Licken, who has an acorn fall on his head and runs in a panic to his friends Henny Penny, Lucky Ducky, and Loosey Goosey, to tell them the sky is falling.
Author
Publisher
Lodestar Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the drake for his colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple who risk their lives to reunite the ducks.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of folktales and legends about pirates includes the story of Robin Hood's encounter with pirates while on vacation at the seashore, the saga of a band of Scottish pirates who attack a monastery, and the spooky tale of a merchant and his servant who discover an abandoned pirate ship.
30) The crane wife
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the traditional Japanese tale about a poor sail maker who gains a beautiful but mysterious wife skilled at weaving magical sails.
31) Dragonfly's tale
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a poor harvest two children regain the Corn Maidens' blessings for their people with the aid of a cornstalk toy, the dragonfly.
32) Teeny tiny
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Retells the tale of the teeny-tiny woman who finds a teeny-tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before she goes to sleep.
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Khoury traveled with a theater troupe, putting on shows in marginal areas where electricity was a luxury, in air raid shelters, Palestinian refugee camps, and isolated villages. Their plays were largely based on oral tales, and she combed the country in search of stories.
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Many years ago, before the world bloomed in magnificent colors, the Earth lay stark and gray. The animals that graced its skies and roamed its lands were the colors of dirt, clay, and stone ... until Rainbow descended to bestow her colors on the creatures of the world. Each bird asked for a bright and beautiful color: green for Parrot, red for Cardinal, and yellow for Canary. But will there be any colors left for little Gouldian Finch? He soon learns...
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