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The Tales of Marigold: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold (Upon a Marigold)
by Jean FerrisThe acclaimed Marigold series in one volume. &“A mixture of fantasy, romance, comedy, and coming-of-age . . . and it&’s all great fun.&” —School Library Journal Once upon a Marigold, a fairy tale turned upside down, inside out, and completely over the top! Join Christian and Marigold through their one-of-a-kind adventures in this trilogy of tales that&’s part comedy, part love story, part everything-but-the-kitchen-sink. With echoes of William Goldman&’s modern classic The Princess Bride, Jean Ferris&’s hilarious parody of &“Once upon a time . . .&” overflows with oddball characters and sage observations to create a happily-ever-after that&’s just the beginning. Once Upon a Marigold was named an ALA Notable Children&’s Book, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and a New York Public Library 100 Books for Reading and Sharing title. Praise for the Marigold series &“In a gratifying fantasy that contains elements of classic fairy tales, Ferris breathes new life into archetypal characters by adding unexpected and often humorous dimensions to their personalities.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Cold indeed is the heart not made warm by this bubbly fairy-tale romance.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Ferris leisurely combines elements of adventure, fantasy, romance, and humor.&” —Booklist &“An upbeat fairy-tale adventure.&” —School Library Journal
Tales of Mystery and Terror
by Edgar Allen Poe Pablo Marcos Studios Malvina G. Vogel Marjorie P. KatzThe world's best-loved children's stories set in large type for easy reading. -- Over 100 illustrations in each book
Tales of Terror (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
by Edgar Allan Poe Les MartinWho is the uninvited guest wearing a creepy costume at Prince Prospero's ball? Can a man be driven mad by the "sounds" of the crime he has committed? These spine-tingling stories and others by Edgar Allan Poe are adapted for a first chapter book reader.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May Or May Not Exist
by Kelly Milner Halls Roxyanne YoungEveryone loves the stories of legendary creatures that just might really exist. This book relies on the latest information from cryptozoologists, experts who study these mysterious beings, and the counter-arguments are explored from experts who strongly believe they do no exist. Stories from eyewitnesses are recounted, as well. Included in the book are Bigfoot (Sasquatch), Loch Ness Monster, Mokele Mbembe (Africa), Kongamato, Shunka Warak'in, Mapinguan (South America), giant squids, mermaids, coelocanthes, and more. An extensive "for Further Investigation" section, offering readers more places to find information, will conclude the book.
Tales of the Fallen Beasts: Special Edition) (Spirit Animals)
by Brandon MullSave the spirit animals in this gripping special edition in the New York Times–bestselling series, tied to the new multiplatform Fall of the Beasts arc.All across the world, legends are appearing. Great Beasts—once the most powerful beings in Erdas—are being summoned as spirit animals. Bonded to special kids, they unite the human and animal worlds.But a mysterious stranger is hunting these legends, just as they are reborn. And he’s crushing anyone who stands in his way. These are the stories of those stolen legends, and of the young heroes who will stop at nothing to get them back. These are the Tales of the Fallen Beasts.
Tales of the Great Beasts: Tales of the Great Beasts (Spirit Animals)
by Brandon Mull Nick Eliopulos Billy Merrell Gavin Brown Emily SeifeDive, run, and soar through this exhilarating special edition in the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series, with a story by WILD BORN author, Brandon Mull.Briggan the Wolf, Uraza the Leopard, Jhi the Panda, and Essix the Falcon -- the Four Fallen. Long before they were spirit animals, they roamed the wilds as Great Beasts, the most powerful beings in Erdas. When a mad king arose, the four banded together with an army of humans and animals to defeat him. But they weren't the only Great Beasts in the war. A deadly scheme was already underway, hatched by two of their own. To save their world, the four had to give up their lives.These are the lost stories of the most selfless acts of bravery that Erdas has ever seen, and the secret betrayal that started it all. These are TALES OF THE GREAT BEASTS.
Tales of the Greek Heroes
by Roger Lancelyn GreenSome of the oldest and most famous stories in the world -- the adventures of Perseus, the labors of Heracles, the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts -- are vividly retold in this single, connected narrative of the Heroic Age, from the coming of the Immortals to the first fall of Troy. With fresh dialogue and a brisk pace, the myths of this version are enthrallingly vivid.
Tales of the Tigress
by Judy KatschkeGo on an adventure with everyone's favorite feline Kung-Fu master in this early chapter book with two awesome stories based on popular episodes of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness!In the first story, Tigress has to babysit a baby duck who has been separated from his parents. Can she care for the duckling while she searches for his mama? Then, Tigress leaves the Jade Palace to study with Mistress Mugan. There's only one problem--when Tigress feels it's time to go, Mistress Mugan will not let her new student leave! How will Tigress get home to the Jade Palace? © 2015 Viacom International Inc. NICKELODEON and all related logos are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. Based on the feature film "Kung Fu Panda" © 2008 DreamWorks Animation L.L.C. All Rights Reserved.
Tales of Unrest
by Joseph ConradThe five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy.
Tales of Wise and Foolish Animals: Retellings of Traditional Fables
by Valery Carrick"The younger children like all of Valery Carrick's stories. They are clearly and simply told and the vigorous black-and-white drawings by the author make the tale dramatic even to children who cannot read it for themselves." - Mary Gould Davis, Director of Story Telling, New York Public Library.Russian storyteller Valery Carrick (1869-1942) recounts fourteen familiar and lesser-known fables, accompanying them with drawings that are as striking and straightforward as the stories themselves. Some of the tales - "The Fox as a Shepherd," "The Hare, the Hippopotamus and the Elephant," "The Hare and His Shadow" - are particularly well known. The simplicity and directness of Carrick's narratives, along with his distinctive illustrations, place these versions among the most delightful retellings of traditional fables. Other less-familiar tales of crafty foxes, mighty lions, greedy wolves, and other creatures will please parents as well as children.
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection
by Alma Flor Ada F. Isabel CampoyA sly fox, a bird of a thousand colors, a magical set of bagpipes, and an audacious young girl...A mixture of popular tales and literary lore, this anthology celebrates Hispanic culture and its many roots -- Indigenous, African, Arab, Hebrew, and Spanish.
Talina in the Tower
by Michelle LovricSavage hyena-like creatures threaten Venice - the Ravageurs are on the prowl and seizing men, women and children. On the night of 30 June 1846 Talina's parents disappear and she and her cat, Drusilla, are forced to go and live with her Guardian and his three savage dogs in his lonely tower in the northernmost edge of the city. Here she discovers that she has the ability to change herself into a cat, but changing herself back into a girl isn't quite so easy. As a cat she learns about the Ravageurs and how over the centuries they have become semi magical creatures, visible only to children in the human world, and that they are intent on destroying Venice. She is determined to save the city - it's time for desperate measures - and her adventures are about to begin.
Talking in Crayon (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Nicole TadgellNIMAC-sourced textbook
Talking Tails: The Incredible Connection Between People and Their Pets
by Ann Love Jane DrakePets and their owners appear together in a book as heartwarming as it is informative.From our earliest beginnings, we have shared our lives with animals. Jane Drake and Ann Love explore the ties that humans and their pets have formed. With fun and fascinating facts, they address Dog People and Cat People. (Why does a cat wind around her owner's legs? She's rubbing her owner with glands on her face to say "you're mine.") They also introduce us to more unusual pets. There's Polly the parrot, who lived through the Klondike Gold Rush to be 126 years old by belting back whiskey, swearing, and biting gold miners. And, of course, there are fish and reptiles, rodents and horses, all of whom can be beloved pets. As useful as it is fun, Talking Tails is a must for children who have or want a pet.
Talking Walls: Discover Your World
by Margy Burns Knight Anne Sibley O'BrienIf walls could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us who built them and why. Maybe they could even tell us about people's lives today. In this book walls really do talk, and oh, the stories they tell. Talking Walls: Discover Your World combines and updates two earlier books, Talking Walls (1992) and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue (1996), which have sold 170,000copies. This new edition includes revised text that makes it more accessible to English Language Learners and easier to read aloud.
Talking Walls: Discover Your World
by Margy Burns Knight Anne Sibley O'BrienIf walls could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us who built them and why. Maybe they could even tell us about people's lives today or about how our ancestors lived thousands of years ago. In this book walls really do talk, and oh, the stories they tell.This new edition combines the beloved children's books Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue. Together, those titles sold more than 170,000 copies. This new edition, thoroughly revised by the author, makes the text more accessible to young readers and English Language Learners and produces a book that is ideal for reading aloud. The back matter includes a world map that helps readers locate the many walls described, as well as additional information about the walls, the places, and the people. The Talking Walls books have been much honored, including: Top 25 Non-Fiction Children's Books Boston Globe Children's Books of Distinction Hungry Mind Review Noteworthy Book from Parallel Cultures: Horn Book Paperback Plum Booklinks Notable Children's Trade Book in the Social Studies: Children's Book Council/National Council on the Social Studies Winner of a Mom's Choice Gold Award -- Picture Books category
Tall Tales (Once Upon Another Time #2)
by James RileyThe second book in a new trilogy of twisted fairy tales from New York Times bestselling author James Riley, set in the world of his popular Half Upon a Time series, that&’s perfect for fans of Fablehaven and Chris Colfer&’s A Tale of Magic series!Lena might finally be accepted by the other giants after helping to defeat the Golden King and his faceless army in the Cursed City, but that doesn&’t mean life has become any easier for her. The power-hungry Golden King wants revenge and has begun spreading shadow magic out over the kingdoms, taking over the minds of anyone it touches, and instilling fear and hatred as it goes. The fairy queens, the most magical beings in the kingdoms, say their sacred book, Tales of All Things, claims that there is one person who can defeat the Golden King and his dark spells: Lena. But only if she first proves herself worthy by completing three challenges. All Lena ever wanted was to prove she is really a giant. Now she has to be so much more. Can she and her genie friend, Jin, save the human world that doesn&’t trust them, or will they fall prey to shadow magic, and doom everything?
Tall Tales of America
by Irwin ShapiroEnjoy these stories: Pekos Bill; Anthony and the Mossbunker; Old Stormalong; Johnny Appleseed; Davy Crockett, the Yaller Blossom o' the Forest; Sam Patch's Last Leap; Paul Bunyan; John Henry; Joe Magarac The Steel Man.
Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
by Maria Tallchief Rosemary WellsMusic flowed through young Maria Tallchief as naturally as the wind in her hair. She had only to hear a melody and out it came under her fingers on the piano or through her body in dance. When she was twelve her father told her that she would have to choose between piano and dance. "One or the other", he said, "but follow that one star". So Maria chose from the heart -- and she chose dance. It was a decision that would change not only the course of her life but the face of classical ballet in America forever. From her early years on an Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma to her departure for New York, where her professional career was launched, the fascinating story of Maria Tallchief's rise to America's prima ballerina is sure to captivate the hearts of young readers and dance lovers alike.
Tally Tuttle Turns into a Turtle (Class Critters)
by Kathryn HolmesTally Tuttle Turns Into a Turtle is the first in Kathryn Holmes’s humorous and heartfelt Class Critters chapter book series about a second grade class where each kid turns into an animal for a day—featuring illustrations by Ariel Landy. It’s Tally Tuttle’s first day of second grade, and she’s so nervous that she feels like she ate butterflies for breakfast! On top of moving to a new town and new school where she doesn’t know anyone, everyone starts teasing her when her full name, Tallulah, is revealed during roll call. She just wishes she could retreat into a shell . . . Then, all of a sudden, the desks and her classmates around her seem enormous, and Tally is shell-shocked to discover that she’s actually turned into a turtle! She’d heard that Mrs. Norrell’s class was special, but she hadn’t expected this. Tally likes having a shell to hide in, but there are other parts of turtle life—like the fear of being stepped on—that aren’t exactly ideal. And once she’s tired of hiding, how can she change back into a girl? Tally will have to forge her own transformation back to herself and come out of her shell—both literally and figuratively! In this chapter book series, Mrs. Norrell’s second grade classroom has magic that allows kids to transform into animals to learn important life lessons. Each book will follow a different kid and their animal transformation and will include fun natural science facts about the featured animal in the back matter.Class Critters series:Tally Tuttle Turns into a Turtle (#1)David Dixon’s Day as a Dachshund (#2)Madison Morris is NOT a Mouse! (#3)
Talons of Power (Wings of Fire, Book #9)
by Tui T. SutherlandThe war is over. The false prophecy has been fulfilled. But the dragonets still have enemies. A dark evil, buried for centuries, is stirring. And a young NightWing may have had the first true prophecy in generations . . . Something is coming to shake the earth Something is coming to scorch the ground Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice Unless the lost city of night can be found. Don't miss the next chapter in the epic, bestselling Wings of Fire series!
Tamarind and the Star of Ishta
by Jasbinder BilanA powerful story of loss and identity, home and family, Tamarind and the Star of Ishta weaves a family mystery together with adventure and wonder from Costa Award-winning author, Jasbinder Bilan.Tamarind has never met her Indian mother, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born. But when her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met, in their atmospheric ancestral home—a huge mansion high in the Himalaya mountains.Her arrival in India brings culture shock, secrets, and unanswered questions: What is the tension between her father and the family, and why will no one talk about her mother? Instead of answers, she is greeted with ominous silence.Taking refuge in the lush gardens one moon-lit night, she follows a friendly monkey to find an abandoned hut and a glowing star ring, and meets Ishta, a mysterious mountain girl. Tamarind unravels the mysteries of the house alongside the search for her own identity.
Tamba Hali (Real Sports Content Network Presents)
by David SeigermanLong before he was sacking quarterbacks, Tamba Hali was facing bigger challenges. Learn about his life in this second book in a brand-new nonfiction series about the childhoods of your favorite athletes.Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali’s story seems almost unbelievable. He and his seven siblings fled war-torn Liberia to the Ivory Coast during his youth and later joined their father, a chemistry and physics professor, in New Jersey. There Tamba played both basketball and soccer, but he didn’t discover football until a coach finally persuaded him to try out in high school. And the rest, as they say, was history. Tamba discovered that he had a real talent for it, landing him an athletic scholarship to Pennsylvania State University and a coveted spot on their football team. Tamba went on to play in the NFL and finally brought his mother to the US from Liberia. His drive, dedication, and athletic ability are inspiring.
Taming Jazz (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Pat Schmatz Adam GustavsonNIMAC-sourced textbook
Taming of the Shoe
by Sarah Darer LittmanArminita Robicheaux—Cinderella’s daughter—discovers that the best way to happily ever after is doing what you can to make your own fairy tale come true in this enchanting follow-up to Charmed, I’m Sure that’s perfect for fans of The Descendants! <P><P>Arminita Robicheaux is convinced her parents are out to ruin her life. Not only did they move Minty to New York City right before the school year started, but her mom’s late-night infomercials for a variety of cleaning products follow Minty wherever she goes. Oh, and did she mention that her mother happens to be Ella Robicheaux—a.k.a. Cinderella? And Minty’s eccentric aunties—who may or may not have made Ella clean and wait on them while growing up—decide to cast Minty’s entire class in their new commercial for their “Comfortably Ever After” shoe line, complete with raps that make Minty want to run far, far away. <P><P>But Minty’s new friend has a perfect distraction; the boy-band mega-star Theo Downy who is staying in town for a series of concerts. If Minty can find a way to get her shoe designs in front of Theo, maybe she can get tickets to the sold-out show. Of course, things don’t go according to plan, and Minty ends up leaving a big clue behind… Like mother, like daughter!