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Author
Series
Brownstone's mythical collection volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Buried amongst the treasures in Professor Brownstone's vaults, lie a humble collection of books. Filled with legendary stories from his ancestors, they tell of fearless fighters and unlikely heroes. The 4th entry in the Brownstone's Mythical Collection series follows Leo Brownstone, who's been tasked with hunting a terrifying gorgon. But is the Gorgon the menace everyone thinks it is?"--
2822) The minotaur riddle
Author
Series
The discoveries of Arthur Grey volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Twelve-year-old Arthur Grey gets more than he bargained for when he discovers the truth about the legendary Labyrinth and what it holds.
2824) The unicorn anthology
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Here are sixteen lovely, powerful, intricate, and unexpected unicorn tales from fantasy icons including Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, Patricia A. McKillip, Bruce Coville, Carrie Vaughn, and more. In this volume you will find two would-be hunters who enlist an innkeeper to find a priest hiding the secret of the last unicorn. A time traveler tries to corral an unruly mythological beast that might never have existed at all. The lover and ex-boyfriend of...
2825) The spindle of fate
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Evie Mei Huang never did like helping in her mom's tailor shop. She hated helping to mend fraying clothes, how the measuring tape got all twisted up, and how pushy her mother's clients were. Most of all, she hates that her mother is dead and isn't here to help anymore. But when the universe sends a life preserver, Evie knows to grab it. So yes, it's weird when a talking monkey shows up and tells her that her plainspoken, hardworking...
2826) Big Turtle
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the time when all people live in the sky and all animals in the water, Sky Girl falls through a hole, is rescued by swans and taken to wise Big Turtle who, with the help of noble Toad, called Mashutaha, creates the land on which we live. Includes notes about the Huron people from whom the tale comes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ophaned at a young age, fifteen-year-old Kata is a trained ninja who works alone and can take care of herself. She is fully prepared for her first solo assignment, that is until she learns she is to be an assassin and she flees with her target and his sister, fighting to survive against skilled samurai warriors, deceptive ninjas, and supernatural beings in order to protect a powerful family secret.
2828) Norse mythology
Author
Pub. Date
2021-
Description
v. 1: "This volume collects issues #1 through #6 of the first arc of the Dark Horse comic-book series Norse Mythology."--Title page verso.
v. 2: "This volume collects issues #1 through #6 of the first arc of the Dark Horse comic-book series Norse Mythology II. "
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Vikings: the real warriors. "Discover exciting new insights as historian Neil Oliver digs for clues. You'll travel to archaeological sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Norsemen launch expeditions and raids. Watch in amazement as the warriors settle Britain, Iceland and Greenland and transform themselves from illiterate pagans into Christian farmers, statesmen and kings--all in less than 200 years! The dramatic truth behind the legends will...
Author
Pub. Date
p 2009
Description
How do you handle an encounter with Medusa on the New Jersey interstate? What's the best way to take down a minotaur? Become an expert on everything in Percy's world with this must-have guide to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Complete with interviews, puzzles, games, and original short stories by Rick Riordan.
2832) Solstice
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Eighteen-year-old Piper lives with her controlling mother amid a Global Heating Crisis, but when she gets her first taste of freedom she discovers a universe of gods and monsters where her true identity, kept secret from her birth, could make all the difference in the world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The show must go on! Pricked Pinkies is a fractured fairy tale based on the story of Sleeping Beauty. When Mouse takes exception to the story of Princess Elizabeth and her pricked pinkies, he helps the narrator rewrite the story with a mouse as the hero! This book provides information on putting on a production-including tips on sets, props, and costumes. An easy-to-follow script with color coding for character cues is ideal for readers' theater,...
2837) Redder than blood
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1755
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Among its nineteen tales, this volume explores unnerving variations of Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, Snow White, and other classics, including three never-before-published stories."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown comprise Virginia's historic triangle. Some of the most important chapters of America's history unfolded in these settlements. The region has been the scene of violent confrontations between settlers and the original natives, an emotional struggle for independence, a bitter civil war, and, most recently, a transformation into one of the country's finest examples of historic restoration. Some parapsychologists...
2839) The shy creatures
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A shy girl imagines what she might tell her classmates about her ambition to be a doctor to shy creatures like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Abominable Snowman--if she were not too shy to speak.