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A ring of tricksters
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Virginia Hamilton |
Twelve trickster tales that show the migration of African culture to America via the West Indies. |
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Embers & echoes
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Karsten Knight |
In Miami, Florida, seeking her younger sister, sixteen-year-old Ashline Wilde, a Polynesian volcano goddess, joins forces with other reincarnated deities but trickster Colt's diabolical plans threate… |
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Shakespeare's secret schemers
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Richard A. Levine |
"Shakespeare's Secret Schemers establishes the existence of a dramatic device in Shakespeare and indicates its presence in the non-Shakespearean drama of the period as well. The secret scheming of th… |
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Pinchpenny John
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Lee Lorenz |
A con man tries to trick a rich, aging carpenter so that he can take the carpenter's granddaughter to the Oxford fair. |
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Nanabosho grants a wish
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Joseph McLellan |
After Billy wishes for a lot of snow during a family birthday party, grandfather tells the story of the Ojibwa Indian trickster and teacher, Nanabosho, who, weary of granting wishes, decides to punis… |
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The Gruffalo
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Julia Donaldson |
The Gruffalo is a British children's picture book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, that tells the story of a mouse, the protagonist of the book, taking a walk … |
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Fox and the jumping contest
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Corey R. Tabor |
"Fox really, really wants to win the jumping contest. He knows just where he&#x;ll put that first-place trophy. The only problem? Fox is not a very good jumper. But he is a very good schemer. . . .Th… |
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Coyote's song
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz |
"Sara used to be a back-up singer in a band. She left her singing career to raise a family. She is content with being a stay-at-home mom. Then, one Saturday, Sara's world changes. Sara and her family… |
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Friendly day
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Mij Kelly |
"Children will laugh out loud at this amusing story of a clever mouse who tricks a hungry cat into sparing his life by telling the cat that it's Friendly Day, the one day in the year when all animals… |
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Who is Boo?
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Ryan, Bridget (Author) |
Boo and his brother constantly race around the world. Along the way Boo likes to play helpful tricks. |
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We are all in the dumps, with Jack and Guy
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Miguel Azaola,Maurice Sendak,Miquel Desclot |
Joins together two traditionaI nursery rhymes with illustrations depicting the plight and eventual triumph of orphaned and homeless children. |
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Trickster tales
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Briggs, John |
142 p. ; 23 cm |
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Please, Malese!
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Amy MacDonald |
Using his tricky ways, Malese takes advantage of his neighbors, until they catch on, after which he manages to pull an even bigger trick on them. |
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Rumpelstiltskin
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Paul O. Zelinsky |
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child. |
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Puss in boots
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Lorinda Bryan Cauley |
A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess. |
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Love and roast chicken
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Barbara Knutson |
In this folktale from the Andes, a clever guinea pig repeatedly outsmarts the fox that wants to eat him for dinner. |
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Raven, the trickster
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Robinson, Gail. |
Nine northwest Indian tales of Raven, the clever trickster who loves to get the better of others but is always willing to help those in danger or distress. |
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Just in case
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Yuyi Morales |
As Senor Calavera prepares for Grandma Beetle's birthday he finds an alphabetical assortment of unusual presents, but with the help of Zelmiro the Ghost, he finds the best gift of all. |
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A Bargain for Frances
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Lillian Hoban,Tomas Gonzalez,Russell Hoban |
Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set. |
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The other within
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Daniel Deardorff |
"Explains how innovations generated within societal and psychic margins ironically benefit the very ones who deny and exclude the so-called misfit and delineates the creation of 'otherness'"--Provide… |
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