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Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Listen Wise is written from the perspective of a veteran NPR reporter who has been in love with audio storytelling her whole life and created a company to support teachers and students in improving listening skills. It will provide personal anecdotes about listening, as well as classroom stories and teacher viewpoints. It will include research on the neuroscience of listening and auditory learning. It will also offer clear teaching strategies for...
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 14
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
24) Dear cyborgs
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A fractal fable about the possibility and power of protest as told by three superheroes on their lunch break In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team of superheroes ponders modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on...
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""'There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.' Thus spake Tyrion in the final episode of Game of Thrones, claiming the throne for Bran the Broken. Many viewers liked neither the choice of king nor its rationale. But the claim that story brings you to world dominance seems by now so banal that it's common wisdom. Narrative seems to have become accepted as the one and only form of knowledge...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Grandpa playfully recounts a familiar fairytale--or his version, at least--to his granddaughter, and try as she might to get him back on track, he keeps on adding things to the mix, resulting in an unpredictable tale that comes alive as it is being told.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by." -Globe and Mail When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he was entrusted to soon after his birth, Frank is haunted by the brief and troubling moments he has shared with his father, Eldon. When he finally travels by horseback to town, he finds Eldon on the edge of death,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosing a main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"--
36) The hero
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero...
39) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Griffin's grandmother showers him with love, encouragement, and a world of stories, all of which stand him in good stead when it is time for her to depart and he is left to tell his own stories--and hers.
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