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6) Probuditi!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
On his birthday, Calvin and his friend Rodney see a magician perform, then copy him by hypnotizing Calvin's little sister, but the joke is on them when they are unable to snap her out of it.
9) Pinduli
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pinduli, a young striped hyena, is hurt by the unkind words of Dog, Lion, and Zebra, but her clever trick in return promotes her clan's survival and spreads harmony throughout the savannah. Includes backmatter notes about hyenas and other animals of the African savannah.
10) The funny thing
Author
Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Pub. Date
c1929.
Language
English
Description
The Funny Thing is Gágs follow-up to her well-loved classic, Millions of Cats. It tells the story of a curious "aminal" that eats childrens dolls. A kindly man named Bobo cannot stand by and allow this to happen. He entices it to eat the concoction "jum-jills." A happy ending is assured when the Funny Thing discovers he loves them and never eats another doll.
Author
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a journey both of individual healing and society's response to the question of life after life, follows a single father just released from prison as he sets out to prove that the mysterious calls from beyond to the residents of Coldwater, Michigan are nothing but a hoax.
13) Doctor De Soto
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
14) Tumbleweed stew
Author
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Jack Rabbit tricks the other animals into helping him make a pot of tumbleweed stew.
Sumario en español: Jack Rabbit trucos de los demás animales a ayudar a hacer un puchero tumbleweed.
15) Anansi time
Author
Publisher
August House Audio
Pub. Date
p1999.
Language
English
Description
On a recent visit to an obscure African village, he was invited to a community-wide afternoon break at which elders told traditional Anansi stories and everyone else listened intently. With material gleaned on that trip and from the tradition of African tellers in North America, Norfolk electrifies audiences with his energized retellings of Anansi, the mythic underdog who is never undone or outdone.
16) Sopa de piedras
Author
Publisher
Live Oak
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
This old French tale tells the story of three weary soldiers on their way home from war. While passing through a town, the hungry men ask for something to eat. When the selfish villagers hide all their food, they find a clever way to get a meal.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young black teen is murdered, his two best friends decide to keep his memory alive by promoting his music -- rhymes that could turn any hangout into a party -- with the help of his younger sister, Jasmine, who is out for justice. As the buzz builds, it forces Quadir, Jarrell, and Jasmine, to each confront the death in their own ways.
Brooklyn, 1998. When their best friend Steph is killed, Quadir and Jarrell don't want his tracks to lie forgotten....
18) Holy Ghost
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle ... and a murder ... in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers. Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will ... until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: `I'll Do What I Can') comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
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