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1) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An impoverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage for another night. But when an attempted escape through the stovepipe doesn't go as well as she'd hoped, Mary fears she'll be stuck in the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies forever. The very next day, a mysterious woman named Madame Z appears at the orphanage requesting to adopt Mary, and the matron's all too happy to get the girl off her hands. Soon, Mary is fed a hearty meal, dressed in a clean,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Serafina is summoned from her village to the magical cottage of a great aunt she has never heard of and learns that she is meant to become the new Baba Yaga, whose magical role is answering the first question any stranger might ask her with the truth.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Chicagoan Anne and handsome, magical Ethan tell of their fated quest to rescue Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia, who tells of her long captivity in the hut of legendary witch Baba Yaga.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, Vassa uses a magical gift from her dead mother to take on Babs Yagg, the witch who owns the local convenience store. Inspired by the Russian folktale Vassilissa the Beautiful.
7) Haunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A mysterious stranger is hunting Anne wherever she goes. No one sees her but Anne. When she searches for the woman's identity, Anne exposes secrets about her own life--things that will change her life forever. And when the gorgeous Ethan returns, her life gets a lot more complicated. Anne thought her journey with the Romanov family had ended, but it was just the beginning...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this Russian folktale, Baba Yaga zooms through the forest in her flying pot. Her hair is greasy. Her hands are warty. Her nose reaches doen to her chin. And poor Tasha has been sent into the forest to find her..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers the strength to leave, and comes upon a little house in the wood: a house that walks about on chicken feet and is inhabited by a fairy tale witch. In finding Baba Yaga, Natasha finds her voice, her power, herself. -- Adapted from page [4] cover.