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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Rise Above the Story, Karena shares with raw vulnerability how she rose above her stories of abandonment, worthlessness, and shame. She'll teach you how to finally let go of your past by embracing every beautiful, imperfect piece of yourself-no matter what your story looks like"--
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young Black girl and her aunt celebrate the wonder and magic of their family's legacy through storytelling."--
"When Zora grows up, she wants to be just like Aunt Bea. Aunt Bea is the best storyteller she knows! Every day after school, Zora heads to her aunt's house, where they take out their family book and turn Aunt Bea's kitchen into their stage. They raid Aunt Bea's costume chest, filled with colorful garments from her acting days, and even...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espąol
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jam̀s termin̤ de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en Rep͠blica Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar all̕ sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus ra̕ces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus...
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Language
English
Description
A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after year, she came and she read to him. Until one spring, two different hands picked him up from the garden shed and placed him in the garden. He waited, but she didn't come to read...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Siksika
Description
"Sstsikistsi aakaisinaakio'pa. Sstsikistsi aakaookatakio'pa. Sstsikistsi aakaiinihkio'pa. Sstsikistsi Naaahsa aakaiitsitapiitsinikiwa. Ma iinnakakiikoan aitsinikatooma mii maahsi manistsasiinakihp ki manistaikimmostiihpia."--Back cover.
"Naaahsa says art is a language everyone understands.... Sometimes we draw. Sometimes we bead. Sometimes we sing. Sometimes Naaahsa tells stories in Blackfoot. A young girl celebrates her grandmother's art, and the...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Between the Listening and the Telling, Mark Yaconelli leads readers into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling. From personal meaning-making to school shootings, climate change, and immigration justice, stories help us connect to our human longings and deep currents of hope.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"According to the narrator of this book, a unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark were riding a bicycle. But they say that's not true, and they just want to take a load off for once. They're tired of being told what to do by the bossy storyteller! And who is a reader supposed to believe, anyway--a book's narrator or its characters?"--Book jacket.
12) Pieces of a girl
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Pieces of a Girl is a memoir about abuse and addiction and the power of storytelling and community that helped zine creator and novelist Stephanie Kuehnert survive and thrive. Told in journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the story of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to beocme a strong young woman after years trapped in a cycle that...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this tale inspired by the life of author Toni Morrison, young Toni sets out on a quest for gold with her siblings, but when things do not go as planned, she realizes that finding the perfect ending is all about how you tell the story. Includes biographical note.
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Many years ago, the four motherless children of the Brontë family - Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne - lived in a windswept house by the moors with their father. Although their lives were often filled with sadness and their world was only as large as the distance they could walk, their INNER worlds were bound only by their imaginations. Hungry for stories, these children devoured novels and poetry, history and fables. And with the gift of a group...
