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Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tricky Anansi the spider plays a joke on Elephant and the other animals after Anansi gets stuck inside one of Elephant's melons, convincing everyone that Elephant has actually grown a talking melon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[36] p.: col. ill.; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Anansi the spider invites Turtle to a party just to play a trick on him, Turtle gets revenge at a party of his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long ago in Africa, the sky god Nyame keeps all of the stories to himself, but when Anansi the spider asks their price, Nyame agrees to trade his stories if Anansi can perform four seemingly impossible tasks.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
46 p. : coll. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of a traditional East African tale in which a clever hare finds a way to outwit the lion that is terrifying all the other grassland animals.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Irish giant Finn McCool is told that in order to become wise he must catch and eat the salmon that possesses knowledge, but Finn finds that he cannot bring himself to kill the miraculous fish.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales, a series of 25 collections of stories for children published between 1889 and 1913, generally regarded as among the richest collections in the English language. Gathered from around the world- from Norse and Icelandic sources, from the Far East, Mideast, Europe, Africa, Australia,...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Roy G. Biv, a leprechaun, appears and asks Colleen's help in saving the St. Patrick's Day parade, she offers items of different colors to rebuild his lost rainbow, but is reluctant to part with a special gift from her grandfather.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Anya and the Dragon is the story of fantasy and mayhem in tenth century Eastern Europe, where headstrong eleven-year-old Anya is a daughter of the only Jewish family in her village. When her family's livelihood is threatened by a bigoted magistrate, Anya is lured in by a friendly family of fools, who promise her money in exchange for helping them capture the last dragon in Kievan Rus. This seems easy enough, until she finds out that the scary old...
Author
Series
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"As the daughter of a prominent judge of Khazaria, twelve-year-old Ziva is expected to focus on learning etiquette and decorum in hopes of finding a good husband. But she doesn't care about any of that. Instead, she spends her days with her twin brother, Pesah, as they work to try to find a cure for his leprosy. Now Pesah's getting worse. The best doctors have given him mere weeks to live, and even more alarming, Pesah has a vision: the Angel of Death...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.
16) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of two girls collide.