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American tall tales

Michael McCurdy, Mary Pope Osborne

A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan

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Sun and moon, ice and snow /

Jessica Day George

A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell

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The Summer King /

O. R Melling

Seventeen-year-old Laurel returns to her grandparents' home in Ireland, where she meets "the roly-poly man," a cluricaun who sets Laurel on a quest to free her twin sister, thought to be dead, to live

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Stone giants & flying heads

Brascoup?e, Joseph Bruchac

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The legend of the poinsettia

Tomie De Paola

When her mother cannot finish weaving a blanket for the church nativity, Lucida tries to finish it and ruins it beyond repair, but when Lucida offers an armful of weeds to be placed in the manger, the

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Beowulf

James Rumford

A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom

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When the Chenoo howls

William Sauts Bock, Joseph Bruchac

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Little Red Riding Hood

Trina Schart Hyman

On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf

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The Adventures of Odysseus

Homer, Hugh Lupton

Retells the classic Greek epic about Odysseus and his adventures as he tries to return home after the Trojan War.

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The Witch's Face

Fabricio Vanden Broeck, Eric A Kimmel

Don Aurelio falls in love with a witch who has a beautiful face but fails to heed her special instructions.

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