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1761) El martillo de Thor
Author
Series
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
474 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
El martillo de Thor ha vuelto a desaparecer. El Dios del trueno tiene la mala costumbre de extraviar su arma (solo es la fuerza más poderosa de los nueve mundos), pero esta vez no se ha perdido exactamente, sino que ha caído en manos enemigas. Si Magnus Chase y sus compañeros no son capaces de recuperar el martillo, los mundos mortales quedarán totalmente expuestos al temible ataque de los gigantes. El Ragnarok empezará. Los nueve mundos arderán....
1762) Horror in Minnesota
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It may be the land of 10,000 lakes, but what might you find lurking at the bottom of one of those lakes could shock you. Discover four frightful stories about horrors in Minnesota"--
1763) Fire from heaven
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
375 pages map (on lining papers) 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alexander the Great stands alone as a leader and strategist, and Fire from Heaven is Mary Renault's unsurpassed dramatization of the formative years of his life. His parents fight for their precocious son's love: On one side, his volatile father, Philip, and on the other, his overbearing mother, Olympias. The story tells of the conqueror's two great bonds-to his horse, Oxhead, and to his dearest friend and eventual lover, Hephaistion-and of the army...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 279 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales...
1765) Prank wars!
Author
Series
Isle of Misfits volume 3
Publisher
Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing USA
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mythical creatures Gibbon, Ebony, Fiona, Alistair, and Yuri are assigned a mission to help a cyclops who is being bothered by trolls, but arrogant classmates are assigned to help the trolls.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xv, 267 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 'Grimm legacies,' esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world--the fairy tale. Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Presents
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spare heir Prince Akil Al-Hamri's plan is simple: conveniently wed Princess Tobi Obatola, gain his inheritance and escape the prison of his royal life forever. Then they'll go their separate ways. It's going well, until he finds himself undeniably attracted to his innocent new bride! But claiming his freedom means letting Tobi go... When disaster strikes, Akil becomes king and requires his queen by his side. But after he abandoned their chemistry...
1769) The playgrounds of Babel
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This unusual, thought-provoking story begins with an old woman telling a tale to a group of children in a playground. One of the boys can't understand what she is saying, so another offers to translate. The old woman's tale is inspired by the Tower of Babel story: In the days when everyone spoke the same language, the people built a tower to reach God. But God was annoyed and sent a dragon to destroy the tower, then created new languages for everyone...
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for an adaptation of a fairy tale in which Henrietta Hen is hit by a falling apple and assumes the worst, rushing to tell Farmer Jones. On the way, she convinces other animals to join her, and even farmyard security can't stop them from entering the forest.
1771) Artemis the loyal
Author
Series
Goddess girls volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Aladdin paperback ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's time for the annual Olympic Games, and the four goddessgirls are not happy! It's boys only--and the girls at MOA are not pleased. Led by Artemis, Athena, Persphone and Aphrodite, the ladies of Mount Olympus hatch a plan to get Zeus to open up the games to everyone. Will they succeed--or end up watching from the sidelines again?" -Publisher
1772) Folklorn
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US Edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend - an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow - comes to claim her at last.Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed...
1774) The night of courage
Author
Series
Melowy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
74 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Defense Techniques teacher tests the girls on their survival skills, leaving them in the Forest of Colors overnight. They use a manual she has left them to build shelter and cook dinner. Electra wanders from the group in the night and gets lost, sending the rest of the Melowies on a mission to find her. They split up and use different skills to pass the test.
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barbie as Rapunzel: Rapunzel's discovery of a magic paintbrush leads her on a journey that will unravel a web of deception, bring peace to two feuding kingdoms, and ultimately lead her to love with the handsome Prince.
Barbie of Swan Lake: Barbie comes to life in her third animated movie, based on the beloved fairy tale and set to the brilliant music of Tchaikovsky.
Barbie and the magic of Pegasus: Princess Annika escapes the clutches of an evil...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 184 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Long overshadowed by the towering buildings of downtown San Antonio, the modest little Alamo still evokes tremendous feeling among Texans and, indeed, many other Americans. For Anglo Texans, the Alamo is the "Cradle of Texas Liberty" and a symbolic confirmation of Manifest Destiny. For Hispanic Texans, however, the Alamo has increasingly become a stolen symbol, its origin as a Spanish mission forgotten, its famous defeat used to exclude Hispanics...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ninjas are stealthy. They are disciplined. Ninjas trust no-one, and do not let anything deter them from completion of their mission. Teenage Kata has trained since childhood to live up to the exacting standards that Madame Chiyome sets for her "deadly flowers"--the girls who live a harsh, hungry life at her school for ninjas, and she is determined to succeed in her first mission as an assassin for hire. When it all goes wrong, she finds herself on...
Author
Publisher
Adventure Publications, an imprint of AdventureKEEN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Become a young astronomer. Learn about Hercules, Pegasus, and more. Best-selling author, educator, and naturalist Jonathan Poppele presents a kids' introduction to the joys of stargazing. Young readers will quickly gain confidence by discovering when to look, where to look, and what to look for.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
"The story of a fun-loving Taino Indian boy who must learn the value of loyalty and hard work" --