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44) Pecos Bill
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents tall tales about one of America's favorite heroes, Pecos Bill.
46) Paul Bunyan
Author
Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the exploits of the legendary giant logger and his big, blue ox, Babe.
47) Captain Abu Raed
Publisher
NeoClassics
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
Arabic
Description
An airport janitor makes a big difference in the lives of the children in his poor neighborhood when they mistake him for an airplane pilot. Using his imagination to weave stories of the wonderful places he has visited around the world, a friendship develops as he brings hope to their otherwise grim home life.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Carpenter Harlan Burch, who builds everything from cradle to casket, plants two trees for every one he cuts down, and when he is very old his sap begins to rise, he grows young again, and starts a family that still lives all over the mountains.
51) Shark tale
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Oscar is a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, who becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian Great White shark, Lenny, and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it's up to Oscar's loyal friend Angie and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water and find his true place in the reef.
Author
Series
Adventures of McBroom volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1966.
Language
English
Description
After leaving their rocky Connecticut farm to seek their fortunes in the West, Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their eleven redheaded children stop in Iowa where they become owners of a small but very unusual piece of property.
54) Pecos Bill
Publisher
Clearvue & SVE
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Tall tale about the brother of coyotes, creator of the Great Salt Lake and rider of cyclones.
56) John Henry
Publisher
Clearvue & SVE
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
This tall tale tells the legend of John Henry, who single-handedly defeats the steam drill in a steel-driving competition.
58) Scatterbrain Sam
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter.
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