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Twice upon a Marigold: Part Comedy, Part Tragedy, Part Two (Once Upon a Marigold)
Par Jean Ferris. 2008
After a quiet year of amnesia in a small town, wicked Queen Olympia regains her memory and a desire to…
wrench power from King Swithbert. Christian and Marigold counter with a scheme of their own. Sequel to Once upon a Marigold (RC 56708, BR 16972). For grades 5-8. 2008Seven wonders of Sassafras Springs
Par Betty G Birney. 2007
Missouri, 1923. Eleven-year-old Eben McAllister is challenged by his father to find seven wonders in their hometown in seven days--with…
a train ticket to Colorado as the prize. For grades 3-6. 2005The Rumpelstiltskin problem
Par Vivian Vande Velde. 2002
Avon the snail decides to become a writer with the help of his friend Edward the ant. This project leads…
them to close encounters with an anteater, a tree frog, and a hungry fish. Sequel to The End of the Beginning (BR 15790). For grades 2-4. 2008Passion and poison: tales of shape-shifters, ghosts, and spirited women
Par Janice Del Negro. 2007
Eerie stories of things that are not what they seem. In "Skulls and Bones, Ghosts and Gold" housekeeper Pearl braves…
a cemetery at midnight to fetch a skull and win a bet for her master. In "Rubies" a woman tries to avenge her sister's murder. For grades 5-8. 2007A family of poems: my favorite poetry for children
Par Caroline Kennedy, Jon J. Muth. 2005
Treasury of Caroline Kennedy's best-loved childhood verses about animals, seasons, adventures, and bedtime. Features familiar classics by Shakespeare, Basho, Emily…
Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Ogden Nash as well as contemporary works by Nikki Giovanni, Jack Prelutsky, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Kennedy's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, among many. For grades 4-7. 2005The nixie's song (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles #1)
Par Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi. 2007
Nick Vargas is annoyed that his father has remarried and stuck him with a stepsister, Laurie, who believes in faeries.…
But then he finds a four-leaf clover that enables him to see a water nixie. Soon he and Laurie are hunting for the nixie's missing sisters. For grades 3-6. 2007Dark day in the deep sea (Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #39)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2008
Jack and his sister Annie travel back in time to the 1870s and meet sailors and scientists aboard the HMS…
Challenger--the first ship dedicated to scientific exploration. While learning about mysterious ocean creatures, Jack and Annie discover another of the four secrets of happiness. For grades 2-4. 2008You read to me, I'll read to you: very short Mother Goose tales to read together
Par Mary Ann Hoberman. 2005
Short stories in verse based on familiar nursery rhymes. In "Little Miss Muffet," the spider politely asks to join Miss…
Muffet on her tuffet and after some discussion is permitted to stay. And Jack and Jill have a safer trip up the hill the second time. For grades K-3. 2005Short rhymed stories based on eight traditional fairy tales. The princess and the pea discuss their feelings and become friends.…
In this version of "The Three Little Pigs," the pig keeps the wolf in a pot of boiling water until the wolf says he's sorry. For grades K-3. 2004The silver donkey
Par Sonya Hartnett. 2004
France, World War I. An English army deserter, blinded by war and clutching a small silver donkey good-luck charm, is…
discovered in the woods by two young sisters. He relates four tales about donkeys while the girls arrange his return home across the Channel. For grades 5-8. 2004Once upon a Marigold
Par Jean Ferris. 2004
When Christian was six, he ran away to live with a troll in a cave where he was happy inventing…
things. Eleven years later he meets Princess Marigold, whom he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. For grades 5-8. 2002Jack and the beanstalk
Par E Nesbit. 2006
Young Jack angers his mother by trading the family cow for a handful of colored beans, which she throws out…
the cottage window. The next morning when Jack sees a beanstalk reaching to the sky, he climbs it--and his adventures begin. For grades 2-4. 1908The adventures of Odysseus
Par Hugh Lupton. 2006
A retelling of the Greek myth that recounts Odysseus's ordeals during the prolonged voyage home after the Trojan War, from…
his encounter with Cyclops to reclaiming his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. For grades 4-7. 2006Dragon of the red dawn (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #No. 9)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2007
Merlin the magician is feeling old and full of sorrows, so siblings Annie and Jack time travel to ancient, feudal…
Japan to find one of the four secrets of happiness. In the land of the samurai, Annie and Jack find Basho, the haiku poet. For grades 2-4. 2007The frog princess
Par E. D Baker. 2002
Princess Esmeralda, an awkward fourteen-year-old, reluctantly kisses a frog named Eadric, who claims to be a prince. But that turns…
her into a frog too! Together they set out to find a way to break the spells and become humans again. For grades 4-7. 2002Canterbury tales
Par Barbara Cohen, Trina Schart Hyman. 1988
Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales retold in modern English. The nun's priest recounts the barnyard adventures of prideful rooster Chauntecleer,…
the pardoner teaches a lesson about greed, the wife of Bath relates a baffled knight's dilemma, and the franklin celebrates courtly love. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1988The Juniper tree: and other tales from Grimm
Par Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Maurice Sendak, Randall Jarrell, Lore Groszmann Segal. 2003
Twenty-seven stories translated from the Brothers Grimm collection of German folktales. Features "Hansel and Gretel," "The Fisherman and His Wife,"…
"Rapunzel," and lesser-known tales like the title piece, in which a wicked stepmother is punished for her crime. Some violence. For grades 4-7. 1973Whittington
Par Alan Armstrong, S. D. Schindler. 2005
In this tale of talking barnyard animals, a feline descendent of Dick Whittington's cat relates his ancestor's legend. He further…
endears himself to the group by ridding the barn of rats. Meanwhile the animals encourage Abby to teach her dyslexic brother, Ben, to read. For grades 4-7. 2005The sword in the stone (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Par T. H White. 1993
A boy named Arthur, king-to-be, grows up in the time of knights in armor, fair damsels, foul monsters, and evil…
witches. His tutor Merlin, the all-powerful magician, transforms Arthur into various animals as part of his schooling and prepares him for his destiny. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1938