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1) Cursed
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Description
"When the true intentions of the Erlking are revealed, which could forever alter the mortal realm, Serilda and Gild must foil the Erlking's evil agenda by solving the mystery of Gild's forgotten name in order to protect their unborn child"--
2) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Formats
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
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her grandmother's house when Isla was a child... Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her great-aunt each summer, like a piece of forgotten luggage. It is only when Isla turns eighteen, and her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies, that Isla discovers she...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 31
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Description
Ireland travels through the centuries, interweaving Ronan's quest fo the Storyteller with a richly evocative unfolding of the great moments in Irish history, ranging from the savage grip of the Ice Age to the green and troubled land of tourist brochures and political unrest.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
After Olivia and Chief Rawlings enjoy a brief honeymoon on Palmetto Island, they're joined by the rest of the Bayside Book Writers for the Legends of the Coastal Carolina Festival. The festival's highlight is Silas Black, celebrity screenwriter and TV producer, who is currently working on a popular show in North Carolina. As the festival gets under way, a trickster seems to be bringing famous local ghost stories to life. But when the body of a woman...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--
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Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes. Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit. One night, Xo's wish is granted—in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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". . . Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet . . . Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past . . ....
11) The storyteller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"Fiona Walsh thought her familys secrets would follow her to her grave, but when her diary is found by a young postman, Niall, the truth about her untimely demise-and that of her sister and aunt-begins to see the light of day. Its the most tragic love story hes ever heard. Niall soon becomes enveloped by the mystery surrounding Jim-an itinerant storyteller who traveled through Ireland enrapturing audiences and wooing women with his macabre mythic...
15) A choir of lies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Three years ago, Ylfing watched his master-Chant tear a nation apart with nothing but the words on his tongue. Now Ylfing is all alone in a new realm, brokenhearted and grieving--but a Chant in his own right, employed as a translator to a wealthy merchant of luxury goods, Sterre de Waeyer. But Ylfing has been struggling to come to terms with what his master did, with the audiences he's been alienated from, and with the stories he can no longer trust...
Author
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
"Jade is starting eighth grade in a new city - Atlanta. She just wants to go back to Chicago, where her friends are. Where her Abuela lives. There, Jade meets Itztli, an elderly storyteller who exists between dreams and reality. In the golden afternoons when Itztli appears, he steps out of the forest as a lithe, agile jaguar. But when he speaks to Jade, he is a wise old man who makes intricate works of art and tells her ancestral stories of Mexico....
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A king betrayed by his queen, vows to take a bride for one night only. In the morning she will face a terrible fate, and he will choose another. Nothing can change his course, until Shahrazad seeks to restore his heart with words.
18) Three by the sea
Author
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
"Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as original and refreshing as Sitting Up with the Dead. Here, take a ride with Pamela Petro as she embarks on a series of road trips through the states of the Old South to collect its stories and meet its tellers of traditional tales. Stories provide the connective tissue of the South, linking the past with the present. They join communities as widespread as the coastal plains of the Carolinas and...