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Aaron's Storybook #4: The Gifts of Wali Dad

Wali Dad, a humble grass-cutter, never asked for wealth-- so why can't he give it away? A tale of India and Pakistan. GENRE: FolktalesCULTURE: Asian Indian, PakistaniTHEME: GenerosityAGES: 4-9LENGTH: 1500 words Aaron Shepard is the award-winning author...

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Aaron's Storybook #3: The Baker's Dozen

Van Amsterdam, the baker, is as honest as he can be -- but he may have something left to learn. A Saint Nicholas tale from Dutch colonial New York. GENRE: Legends, St. Nicholas talesCULTURE: American (Dutch colonial)THEME: GenerosityAGES: 4-9LENGTH: 900...

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Aaron's Storybook #1: The Legend of Lightning Larry

A cowboy with a huge smile, a gun that shoots bolts of light, and a hankering for lemonade takes on Evil-Eye McNeevil's outlaw gang. An original tall tale. GENRE: Fables (original), tall tales, humorCULTURE: American (Western frontier)THEME: PeacemakingAGES:...

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Aaron's Storybook #2: The Legend of Slappy Hooper

Slappy is the world's biggest, fastest, bestest sign painter, but he's too good -- his pictures keep coming to life. An American tall tale. GENRE: Tall tales, folktalesCULTURE: AmericanTHEME: Pursuit of excellenceAGES: 5-9LENGTH: 1300 words Aaron Shepard...

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The Magic Flyswatter: A Superhero Tale of Africa, Retold from the Mwindo Epic

The storyteller stands beside the fire, swaying, dancing, miming, singing, reciting. With one hand he shakes a gourd rattle, with the other he swings a conga -- a flyswatter made with a buffalo tail on a wooden handle. Anklet bells tinkle as he moves....

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The Monkey King: A Superhero Tale of China, Retold from The Journey to the West

If you think Superman or Spiderman has been around a long time, think about Monkey. He has been China's favorite superhero for at least five centuries. He's amazingly strong, he can fly, and he has a few tricks those other superheroes never heard of....

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The Songs of Power: A Finnish Tale of Magic, Retold from the Kalevala

Not so long ago, in the tiny, isolated villages of Finland, where prolonged summer days gave way to endless winter nights, people would pass the time by singing the many adventures of their favorite heroes: the mighty, magical men and women of ancient...

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Timothy Tolliver and the Bully Basher

Timothy Tolliver and his friend Arnie Rosenberg have a problem -- a gang of older bullies called the Stinks. But besides being a fourth-grader, Timothy is also a world-class inventor. He and Arnie get the bright idea of defending themselves with Timothy's...

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The Wizard of Woe

Small yet smart, Mousedeer challenges a powerful wizard who has cast an evil spell over the jungle.

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Jenny and The Bullies

Graphic Novel. A new girl, Veronica, comes to town, and makes Jenny's life a misery. She bullies Jen and even turns Jen's best friends against her. What can Jenny do? And will things ever be the same again - even when it's all over? A Jenny in Stringtown...

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SKIPPY BEDELLE - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the

a selection from the PREFACE: Likewise a Declaration of Principles UNTIL the first great disillusions of his youth, the Bedelle Foot Regulator and the Mosquito-Proof Socks, had brought a new sentimental need of consolation and understanding, Skippy Bedelle's...

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The Mountain of Marvels: A Celtic Tale of Magic, Retold from The Mabinogion

A thousand years ago, in the Celtic kingdoms of Wales, great lords gave great feasts for their fighting men and courtiers. In timbered halls, for days on end, heaps of meat and bread were washed down with gallons of beer and mead. And in between the meals,...

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The Spring

The Spring is the story of eight friends approaching the end of their senior year of high school. Preparing for graduation should be an exciting time, but as they look forward to college, fall in and out of love, and just try to endure their last days...

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A BIG TEMPTATION and Other Stories (Illustrated)

a selection from the introductory to A Big Temptation: Netty stood on the doorstep of a rickety old house and nursed the baby. She was ten years old and had the perfectly white face of a child who had never felt any fresher air than that which blows in...

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Robinson Crusoe (1719)

First published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English, Robinson Crusoe is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native...

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THE BITTERSWEET FLAVOR OF CHERRIES

Spit the Pit! Spit the pit! First it's bit, Then you spit!

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Gettysburg Ghosts

Letters to my grand children.

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Mortal Instruments: Sample of the CITYs

Welcome to a world of deliciously exotic urban fantasy that is sexy, mysterious and dangerously good fun! Sample the bestselling Mortal Instruments series with excerpts from City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass, and a Q&A with author Cassandra...

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