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Gooney Bird volume 1
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A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
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Starry River of the Sky volume 2
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An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.
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Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as The Lord of the Rings, The Alchemist, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating work of fantasy from the author of Midnight’s Children and The Enchantress of Florence, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories....
6) Mister Pip
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On a remote tropical island where villages are overrun by rebel fighting, thirteen-year-old Matilda is introduced to the Charles Dickens classic "Great Expectations" by her white school teacher and becomes enthralled with the story's main character, with whom she feels a connection.
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"It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story — and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can’t help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little, she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters. Now it’s the little red chicken’s turn to tell a story, but will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting?"--
9) Wolf story
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A young father tells his five-year-old son humorous variations on the theme of a hen escaping the clutches of a wily wolf.
10) Travel writing
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Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his teenage students? Why can't he stop thinking...
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Can a story save your life? Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend's only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting. But who wants to live forever? Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche,...
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Nine very different people, trapped by an earthquake in the visa office in the basement of the Indian consulate, are nearing the breaking point when a young graduate student suggests each tell a story of one amazing thing that has happened in his or her life, an activity that keeps them calm and brings them closer together as they await their fate.
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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 with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
14) Green witch
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A year after her world was nearly destroyed, sixteen-year-old Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, especially to record their stories, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love.
15) The end (almost)
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When Donut the bear is told his story is over and he has to leave, he employs trickery so the story can go on.
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Tashi books volume 11
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Tashi gets lost in the city and successfully escapes from several dangerous situations. Includes illustrations.
17) It's a tiger!
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A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
18) Campfire
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Sixteen-year-old Maddie's camping trip with family and friends in a remote mountain location turns deadly as stories told around the campfire begin coming true.
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When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their father's last great heist.
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Tashi books volume 10
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Tashi is off on his 10th escapade, and as always, his adventure is spooky and exciting. Tashi is nearly buried alive when an ancient burial site is discovered in the village. To make matters worse, the precious book of spells disappears and the villagers won't be safe until he finds it. It takes all of Tashi's courage and cleverness to solve the mystery in the king's chamber of the ancient tomb and save the town. The thrilling adventures of Tashi...
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