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142) Thirteen chairs
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When Jack enters the deserted house in his neighborhood, he finds a group of people who invite him to take the thirteenth chair in the room and share a story--in the house where the ghosts meet.
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A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after year, she came and she read to him. Until one spring, two different hands picked him up from the garden shed and placed him in the garden. He waited, but she didn't come to read...
144) Maya
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"The electricity in Maya's house has gone out again. Worse, she is afraid of the dark -- and her fear has been even worse since her father died. Now it feels as if the darkness will never go away. Maya’s mother distracts her with a legend about the banyan tree, which saved the world from the first monsoon by drinking up the floodwaters, and growing tall and strong. Later that night, unsettled by the noises around her, Maya revisits the story in...
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Little Red likes to play by the rules. So when the narrator comes along and asks her to follow the story set out in her fairy tale, she grabs the basket for Grandma and goes. After all, she loves her grandma. But unfortunately, none of the other characters are quite what they're expecting. -- As Little Red attempts to follow the narrator's directions (which, frankly, seem kind of dangerous!), she is beset by fill-in characters, confusing instructions,...
146) The loud librarian
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When loud-voiced Penelope becomes student-librarian, she is determined to prove she is perfect for the job while staying true to herself.
147) The silver donkey
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In France during World War I, four French children learn about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his small, silver donkey charm.
148) The story circle
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Monster storms closed the school for three days. "Carpets bubbled with mud. Green slime swallowed books." And when the children returned, the new bookshelves in the classroom were empty. "What will we do for story circle?" they ask. With the kids sitting around her on the new rug, the teacher tells a story about a boy who loved to fly. Afterwards, she asks them what pictures they imagined. Each one sees something different: wings like yellow sunbeams,...
151) Wondrous Rex
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"Grace's aunt Lily is a writer. She works with words every day and teaches Grace interesting words like 'melancholy' and 'delirious.' But Lily is often 'flummoxed' by her writing. Her stories don't go anywhere, her desk is a mess, and her writer's group can't help. So Lily posts an ad: A writer of books needs an assistant, a coach, a helper, for inspiration and some magic! The next day, Grace opens the door, and there is Rex: a Labrador retriever...
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Chapter Two is Missing is a hilarious picture book mystery starring a hopelessly lost narrator, an unqualified detective, and a very sneaky janitor, who are all surprised to discover that second chapter of the very book of which they are a part is--gasp--missing! Do not be alarmed, but the second chapter of this book appears to be missing! It was here a minute ago, but now it seems to have simply walked off. Not only that, but some of the punctuation...
153) The rambling
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Buddy Pennington is headed to river country. No one in his village will miss him anyway -- not even his mom, after what he and his bad luck did. He'll be better off with his daddy, Davey Boy Pennington, a wandering soul who has the best luck of anyone Buddy knows. Pop might even teach Buddy his legendary skills at Parsnit, a mysterious card game of magic, chance, and above all, storytelling. No one tells a better story than Pop. But no sooner are...
154) The storyteller
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Fourteen-year-old Keri Cleary's brother Alistair has stopped talking after he witnesses the shooting of Kyle Dwyer. As everyone worries about Alistair and wonders where Charlie Dwyer and Fiona Loomis are, Alistair begins telling his sister strange stories about a parallel world called Aquavania where he claims Charlie and Fiona are trapped. Keri is skeptical that her brother's stories are delusions until she realizes that Alistair's stories overlap...
155) Kamishibai man
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After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.
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"Elise Gravel souhaite écrire un livre totalement ennuyeux. Ses personnages, eux, veulent se déchaîner... Qui sera vainqueur?
Détrompez-vous, le titre n'est pas une métaphore: ceci est réellement le pire livre du monde. L'auteure-illustratrice Elise Gravel, récipiendaire du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général, embarque les lecteurs pour un voyage inattendu à travers le livre le plus ridicule ayant jamais existé!
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159) Kooky campout
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"Huckle and his friends are going camping. They have tents, fishing poles, sleeping bags, and snacks. They roast marshmallows and someone tells a kooky, spooky ghost story. Will they sleep in their tents all night long?"--Page 4 of cover.
160) Idea jar
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What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?
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