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Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this retelling of a Shona folktale from Zimbabwe, a girl promises a crocodile he can come to a party in exchange for a favor, but since crocodiles aren't allowed in the village, she doesn't expect she'll have to keep the promise.
5) Mystic horse
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.
7) Light
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A retelling of the midrash about the creation of light.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Raintree
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A simplified version of the familiar folktale featuring a hungry little chick who happens upon the house of the three bears and helps herself to their belongings. Includes a note on the history of the tale.
11) Baby rattlesnake
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Willful Baby Rattlesnake throws tantrums to get his rattle before he's ready, but he misuses it and learns a lesson.
14) Abiyoyo returns
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
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