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81) The Book Thief
Pub. Date
2014
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Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Author
Series
Mother Bruce volume 10
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit"--
84) The end (almost)
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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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Description
"August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival were not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she’d wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling...
86) Enchantments
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Description
From one of the most admired literary voices of our time, a magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's last Tsar. St. Petersburg, 1917: As the new year dawns, a diver pulls the murdered body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River. Hours later, his daughters are taken to the Tsar's palace as wards of the Romanovs, where the Tsarina makes a shocking request: would Masha, 18, take her father's place...
87) Battlesong
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
While Gwin, a Fetcher, and her family defy the Devouts by sharing song and story, the Oyster's crew and the Sunkers continue fighting to bring light back to the dark world.
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Series
Bear and Mouse volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Although he sees no need for more books to read, Bear agrees to accompany Mouse to the library.
89) Lead with a story: a guide to crafting business narratives that captivate, convince, and inspire
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Whether you're trying to communicate a vision, sell an idea, or inspire commitment, storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between lackluster enthusiasm and a rallying cry. Addressing a wide variety of business challenges, including specific stories to help you overcome twenty-one difficult situations, Lead with a Story gives you the ability to engage an audience the way logic and bullet points alone never could. This...
90) Witch Hazel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A girl is transformed by the magical power of stories through the shared memories of her grandmother Hazel"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's favorite storytellers comes a heartwarming, inspirational book to help us understand our lives as one continuous, never-ending story.
God has a story for your life…
Debbie Macomber has inspired millions of readers with her inspirational and moving stories for decades. Now with Once Upon a Time, she helps each of us to understand that life is a story, part of a grand narrative that...
93) Lovely War
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
"They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's...
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention...
96) Three by the sea
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story.
98) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. He agrees to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A girl made of stone, forever twelve years old, has outlasted the father who carved her and gave her life, but now the magical marks that animate her are fading and she must leave her mountain home and find help in the valley below if she wants her story--and those of her family--to continue.--Provided by Publisher.