Jane Yolen
22) I am the storm
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As the climate shifts, families experience weather emergencies, including a tornado, a blizzard, a forest fire, and a hurricane, finding joy in preparedness and resilience.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this beautiful tale, Yolen and Ibatoulline introduce a fickle scarecrow, who decides to leave his station and dance away the fall night. He soon encounters a young boy who is saying his prayers, and offers up a special prayer for the corn to be successfully harvested the next morning. Full color.
A scarecrow happily dances away from his post one windy night, until a child's prayer teaches him how important he is to the farm.
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 1
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A young girl relates the facts that are known about the unexplained disappearance of the crew on the ship Mary Celeste in 1872, and challenges the reader to solve the mystery.
26) Foiled
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Aliera is a star at fencing, but at school no one notices her--until her new lab partner Avery begins flirting with her. Aliera's mother just bought her a foil from a garage sale, and it has a strange jewel attached to the hilt. Will Aliera's first date be ruined when magical creatures try to steal her foil?
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 4
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, witnessed one of the saddest and most inexplicable chapters in American history. When a group of girls came down with a horrible, mysterious bout of illness, the town doctor looked in his medical books but failed to find a reasonable diagnosis. Pretty soon everyone in town was saying the same thing: The girls were ill because they were under a spell, the spell of witchcraft! And still, the question remains: Why did the...
29) Interrupting Cow
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the true, humorous story about an interrupting cow, based on the popular knock-knock joke.
30) Heart's blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004], c1984
Language
English
Description
When a plea arrives from his beloved Akki, Jakkin becomes a spy and risks his dragon Heart's Blood, her five hatchlings, and his freedom to go to the rescue.
31) Dragon's blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.
Author
Series
Seelie wars volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Snail, a midwife's apprentice in the Unseelie Court, meets Prince Aspen, a Seelie prince being held as a hostage in order to prevent a war. In thinking that they are stopping the war, they instead trigger one"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"There's a new horse at the farm, and he's unlike any of the others. That's because he's a zebra! Zebra knows a lot of jokes...and he knows there's a big, bright world beyond the farm. He might just lead Interrupting Cow to her next big adventure!" -- Page 2 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Retellings of seven of the world's greatest ballet stories.
Retellings of seven of the world's greatest ballet stories. Readers are drawn into the fascinating world of dance with this beautifully illustrated anthology of tales from some of the world's most famous ballets, including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty. Full color. Richly theatrical illustrations combine with spellbinding storytelling in a gorgeous anthology which includes...
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
What were all those fairy-tale characters thinking? Jane Yolen and Rebecca Kai Dotlich answer this question in paired poems, with sometimes startling results. The Princess claims all those mattresses kept her awake?not a silly pea?while the poor pea complains that the princess snores. One Snow White begs the witch to settle by the bay and throw that mirror away. Another boldly tells the mirror she ?won?t be guided by a glass that?s so one-sided.?...