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"Había una vez . . . There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But 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. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery...
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Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Indigenous People's Month Teen
Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
Native American Heritage Month 2023: Kids
Indigenous People's Month Teen
Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
Native American Heritage Month 2023: Kids
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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.
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Starry River of the Sky volume 3
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
Wintry World: Middle School Reads
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
Wintry World: Middle School Reads
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Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most exciting tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor wants something called the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night. Determined to have her grandmother returned, Pinmei embarks on a journey to find the Luminous Stone alongside her friend Yishan, a...
4) Cursed
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Gilded duology volume 2
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"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"--
5) My abuelita
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With great gusto, a child's grandmother performs deep knee bends, consumes a breakfast of "huevos estrellados," and practices vocal exercises before going to work as a storyteller.
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Wealthy, seventeen-year-old Anna begins to fall in love with her classmate, Abel, a drug dealer from the wrong side of town, when she hears him tell a story to his six-year-old sister, but when his enemies begin turning up dead, Anna fears she has fallen for a murderer.
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Evie Baker, storyteller, yearns for adventure, so she ventures into the Old Forest hoping to catch a Fel and compel it to use its magic to grant her wish; instead she stumbles into a nest of robbers and has to be rescued by the Queen's Guard--but maybe it is the start of a dangerous adventure because she and her new friend Max, a Guard messenger, have stumbled unto a conspiracy.
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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....
12) Eventide
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Dragon's Bard volume 1
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When a traveling bard stumbles into a dragon's den, he is forced to tell it stories or be eaten. When he runs out of stories to tell, he makes a deal: if allowed to leave, he promises to return with more tales of adventure, romance, and bravery.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 1
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Two stories of Prince Edward Island in the early 20th century. In the first, Ann, an eleven-year-old orphan, makes an indelible impression when she is mistakenly sent to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister, and in the second, while visiting relatives two young boys become entranced by Sara Stanley and the stories she tells about the island and its long-ago inhabitants.
15) Shadow spinner
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When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
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"A girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But 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. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
20) Swan Lake
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Swan Lake trilogy volume 1
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A young prince and his beloved Odette struggle to protect themselves and their infant daughter from the evil Von Rothbart in this adaptation of the classic ballet.
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