Orem Library

Gathers just-so stories, moral fables, and comedic anecdotes from the slave culture of the antebellum South, the streets of urban America, and villages of the Caribbean islands

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.
Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the...

Cinderella in America: a book of folk and fairy tales represents these tales as they have been told in the United States from Revolutionary days until the present. Tales are grouped in chapters that represent regional and ethnic groups, including Iberian, French, German, British, Irish, other European, African American, and Native American. These tales are drawn from published collections, journals, and archives, and from fieldwork by McCarthy and...