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1) Tom Lake
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explains the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling, weaving images, music, text, audio, video, and music together. This book describes the narrative creation process with personal video, blogs, podcasts, digital imagery, multimedia games, social media, and augmented reality.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Family storytelling offers many of the same advantages as book reading - and some new ones - for children's language and emotional development, coping skills, and sense of belonging. Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World shows parents how telling and sharing stories about family experiences can help children grow into healthy, happy adolescents and adults. Dr. Elaine Reese outlines the techniques that work best with children...
Author
Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the art of storytelling, discussing how to develop the skill of shaping a story so that listeners are able to relate to it on a personal level, looks at the key elements of storytelling, and includes an annotated list of stories, a bibliography of collections, and a brief list of recommendations for online sources.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"This thesis explores the difference between listening to a traditional oral story on a podcast versus experiencing the story in real-time with a live teller, and how to maximize the listener's podcast experience. The results of listener surveys were analyzed, and the results reflected in a new storytelling course and accompanying syllabus."--leaf ii.
Author
Series
Kingkiller chronicle volume day 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and in it he shares all his secrets for writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range...
13) Life of Pi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life-including astronauts, rock stars, Nobel Prize-winners, high school students, dental hygienists, and a retired pickpocket-to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted millions of listeners on the Moth's Peabody Award-winning radio hour and podcast. A leader in the modern storytelling movement, The Moth also inspires thousands...
17) Zen shorts
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
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Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
19) Three up a tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Sam and Spider build a tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories.