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Jack and the Green Man
By Andy Jones. 2016
Jack o' Hearts is the top card player in the parish and is feeling pretty sure of himself. When a…
mysterious green stranger challenges him to a card game with stakes higher than high--well, Jack can't resist. Sure, he's never lost a tournament yet, has he? Jack is as saucy as saucy can be and he's twice as lucky as that--but the game is trickier than it looks. Luckily, Jack finds he's got an ace up his sleeve: the menacing green man's beautiful daughter Ann. Grades 4-7. 2016.Blindness: a novel
By José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero. 1997
Written by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author. Without cause people are suddenly becoming blind. A doctor's wife is spared but…
pretends she is blind to remain with her husband. Quarantined by the government in an abandoned mental hospital, the blinded citizens create a reign of terror. 1997. Uniform title: Ensaio sobre a cegueira.Knots on a counting rope (Series C Ser.)
By John Archambault, Bill Martin. 1987
Kate and the beanstalk
By Mary Pope Osborne. 2000
In this version of the classic tale, a girl climbs to the top of a huge beanstalk, where she uses…
her quick wits to outsmart a monstrous giant and to make a fortune for her mother and herself. Grades K-3. 2000. Uniform title: Jack and the beanstalk.Jump all the morning: a child's day in verse
By P. K Roche. 1984
Joy the summer vacation fairy (Rainbow magic.)
By Daisy Meadows. 2007
Rainspell Island is the perfect place for a vacation. And Joy the Summer Vacation Fairy is the one who keeps…
it that way! But when Jack Frost steals the sand and three magical shells from the beaches, Joy starts to lose her sparkle. Can Rachel and Kirsty help her bring the magic back to Rainspell Island? Grades 2-4. 2007. (Rainbow magic)Grace the glitter fairy: The Party Fairies Book 3 (Rainbow magic. #17.)
By Daisy Meadows. 2005
Grace the Glitter Fairy can't bring a sparkle to the birthday without her magic party bag of balloons. But Rachel…
and Kirsty have a bright idea to keep Grace's glittery bag safe. Grades 3-6. 2005.Cherry the cake fairy: The Cake Fairy (Rainbow Magic Ser.)
By Daisy Meadows. 2005
Everyone in Fairyland is busy preparing for the King and Queen's 1000th jubilee. But Jack Frost plans to make trouble…
by stealing the party fairies' magic party bags. Can Rachel and Kirsty stop him? For grades P-2. 2005.Jillian Jiggs: and 4 more stories
By Phoebe Gilman. 1985
Jillian Jiggs' room is a mess, but she has far too many things to do and games to play to…
clean it up. Grades K-3. 1985. Taped with: The wonderful pigs of Jillian Jiggs, by Phoebe Gilman. Jillian Jiggs has cleaned her room, but then she decides to sew stuffed pigs, and that makes an even bigger mess! Grades P-2. 1988. Taped with: Something from nothing, by Phoebe Gilman. When his favourite blanket is worn and tattered, Joseph's grandfather turns the blanket into something wonderful. Grades P-2. 1992. Taped with: Grandma and the pirates, by Phoebe Gilman. Melissa makes an heroic attempt to save her grandmother and Oliver the parrot who have been kidnapped by pirates. Grades K-3. 1990. Taped with The gypsy princess, by Phoebe Gilman. When Princess Cyprina invites Cinnamon the gypsy to live with her in the palace, it's a dream come true. Grades K-3. 1995.Jasmine: the missing coin (Disney princess)
By Sarah Nathan. 2011
With Prince Aladdin’s birthday coming up, Princess Jasmine wants to find him the perfect gift, so she sets off on…
a Magic Carpet ride with Rajah the tiger. She is determined to track down the coveted camel coin Aladdin is missing from his rare-coin collection. It’s smooth sailing until Magic Carpet suddenly loses its power, leaving Jasmine and Rajah stranded in the desert! Will the pair find the coin and make it back to the palace in time for Aladdin’s birthday? Grades 2-4. c2011. (Disney princess)Italian folktales (Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library)
By Italo Calvino. 1956
Adventurers, tricksters, kings and peasants, saints and ogres with extraordinary animals, fish and plants play their roles against the rich…
background of regional customs and varied history of the Italian people. 1956. Uniform title: Fiabe italiane.In the land of birdfishes
By Rebecca Silver Slayter. 2013
In rural Nova Scotia, two sisters witness the suicide of their mother. Their father, sick with grief, blindfolds the children…
to shield them from the misery of the world. Left that way for years, they are each scarred in their own way: Mara is rendered fully blind, and Aileen partly so. When a neighbour discovers their condition, they are immediately separated for treatment, and it isn’t until decades later, after Aileen’s marriage has fallen apart, that she decides to seek out her lost sister. 2013.Illuminations: a novel
By Tamás Aczél. 1981
A political philosophical novel about Feldheimer, a middle aged Jewish dentist. Once of Budapest, now of London, he has survived…
the Austro-Hungarian secret police, Nazi death camps and a communist party purge. Blinded after a traffic accident, he travels to Vienna to consult a philosopher/ophthalmologist. During his epic journey he meets many other survivors who recount their stories of horror and death. 1981.Cammie takes flight
By Laura Best. 2017
Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised…
by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's abusive, alcoholic father to sober up but nearly killing Evelyn in the process, Cammie convinces her aunt to send her to the Halifax School for the Blind. Cammie navigates life at her new school, armed with an envelope with her estranged mother's address on it. Unsure if she can trust her new friend, Nessa, Cammie enlists her help in tracking her mother down. Will Cammie finally learn why she was abandoned and be able to start her new life? Or will she find too many secrets to count, and realize that she might never put the past behind her? Sequel to "Flying with a Broken Wing". Grades 4-7. 2017.Flying with a broken wing
By Laura Best. 2013
Cammie Deveau began life with a few strikes against her. She’s visually impaired, abandoned by her mother at birth, her…
father was a casualty of the Second World War—and if all that isn’t enough, she’s being raised by her bootlegging aunt. No wonder she dreams of starting a brand new life. When Cammie learns about a school for blind and visually impaired children she becomes convinced a new life is waiting for her in Halifax, but how will she ever convince her aunt to let her go? Grades 3-6. 2013.Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear: tales from native North America
By Joseph Bruchac. 2011
Focuses on the transition from boyhood to manhood. The collection of sixteen stories recounts the customs of tribes such as…
the Iroquois, Wampanoag, Cherokee, Apache, Pueblo, Lakota, and Cheyenne. Grades 5-8. 2011.Forward, Shakespeare! (Orca young readers)
By Jean Little. 2005
Seeing Eye dog Shakespeare from "Rescue Pup" (DC30998) is about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to…
begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match for Shakespeare. Grades 4-7. 2005.Bone button borscht
By Aubrey Davis. 1995
On a dark winter's night, a beggar arrives in a small town and says that he's going to make bone…
button borscht. That's impossible, say the townspeople, you can't make borscht from buttons! But they all come out to help and to see a miracle done. Grades K-3. 1995.Boy soup, Ogre fun, Catmagic and Dirty dog boogie: When Giant Caught Cold
By Loris Lesynski. 1996
When Giant wakes up with a cold, he wants a bowl of Boy Soup. Catching the boys is easy, but…
what he doesn't count on is Kate! Grades K-3. 1996. Taped with: Ogre fun by Loris Lesynski. Instead of scaring his ogre family and friends, Gronny catches a contagious case of yawns and brings them back home, where no one has ever seen a yawn before. Grades K-3. 1997. Taped with: Catmagic by Loris Lesynski. Things go topsy-turvy when Arabelle and her cat move into the Witches' Retirement Home. 1998. Taped with: Dirty dog boogie by Loris Lesynski. Fun poems about mosquitoes, sock fluff, fretting mothers and monkey wallpaper - even one called "I Hate Poetry!". Grades K-3. 1999.Beauty returns (Beauty Ser.)
By Sylvia McNicoll. 2006
Liz is irresistibly drawn to Kyle, and Kyle is drawn to Liz - dragged to her, actually, by Beauty Two,…
his guide dog who is so glad to see her old friend that she starts to forget her training. More problems soon get in their way: Kyle's teacher loads him down with work; Liz's parents think she's too young; and Beauty needs correction or she'll be taken away. Sequel to Bringing up Beauty. For junior high readers. 2006.