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  Brer Rabbit Tales That Uncle...

  Joel Chandler Harris

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  Uncle Remus' stories feature a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit ("Brother" Rabbit), who uses his wits to slide out of trouble and gain the advantage over the slower witted other animals, many of whom are trying to eat him. Br'er Rabbit stories were mostly collected directly from the afro-american oral story-telling tradition and are said to be a direct interpretation of Yoruba tales of Hare. 

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  Three Jumps to Sorry - A Yom...

  Amy Novit

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  Hannah was delightful―except when she wasn’t. The day before Yom Kippur, Hannah kicks a soccer ball in the living room and breaks her mother’s glass apple. Her wise mother, deciding to teach her a lesson in a fun way, writes the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on pieces of paper and puts them on the floor. She shows Hannah how to hop her way through the three steps of an apology: admitting you did something wrong, feeling bad about what you did, and then trying never to do it again. A lesson for Yom Kippur and every day.

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  The Witch and the Nightingale

  Wiley Blevins

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  In this updated retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s “Jorinda and Joringel,” a shape-changing witch protects her privacy at all costs. 
  When the engaged couple Jorinda and Jacob stumble into the witch’s part of the forest, she takes them captive. The hateful witch changes Jorinda into a singing bird. Will her fiancé save her, or will the witch keep her singing bird caged forever?

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  The Palazzo Funeral Parlor - a...

  Marthe Jocelyn

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  This short story for middle grade readers features sisters Rose and Louisa who move with their mother into an apartment over a funeral parlor. Possibly not the most exciting neighbors - until the day they recognize the person being delivered in a hearse.

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  Ruby in the Sky

  Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo

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  Courage can be found when you simply stand up 
   
  Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested.  
   
  And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants tostay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won’t be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way  
  they were before everything went wrong. 
   
  But keeping to herself isn’t easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he’s her new best friend. Or when she meets “the Bird Lady,” a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby’s house. Before long, Ahmad and  
  Abigail have become Ruby’s friends—and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows. 
   
  As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that’s come to mean so much to her. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that  
  can happen when we’re brave enough to break free.

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  When the Storm Comes

  Polly Ho Yen

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  The storm had been brewing for weeks.
  When I look back and remember those days of dripping rain, the thick grey cloud blanketing the sky, the rolling thunder, I wonder how we didn't see it coming. We didn't realise it was building into something.
  Back then, we just thought it was stormy weather. We had no idea what lay ahead.
  We couldn't ever have imagined how it would engulf us.
  Mali, Jonesey, Fara and Petey are reluctantly gathered in the library. They're not friends and they each have reasons they don't want to be there. As the rain starts, they do not bond as a group. Mali does not engage, Jonesy takes offence, Petey ridicules the others, Fara is silent, and their teacher Ms Devine is distracted. Outside, the bad weather steadily worsens. Soon they are trapped in the school, and pulling together may be the only way out when the storm begins.

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