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STAT: Standing Tall and Talented is a series of children's books written by NBA basketball player Amar'e Stoudemire. [2] The books are partially autobiographical and tell the story of an 11-year-old Amar'e who discovers his innate talent and has to overcome many obstacles to become the success he is today. The books are all targeted for ...
The story takes place in the fictional Wayside School, a school that was meant to be built one story tall with 30 classrooms all in a row, but was instead built 30 stories tall with a single classroom on each floor, save for the nonexistent nineteenth story. The book is primarily set in Mrs. Jewls' class, which is located on the thirtieth story ...
Wayside School is a series of short story cycle children's books written by Louis Sachar.Titles in the series include Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978), Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989), Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), and Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020). [1]
Skylark is a historical children's novel by Patricia MacLachlan published in 1994. It is a sequel to the Newbery Medal-winning novel Sarah, Plain and Tall and follows the lives of the Witting family after Sarah Wheaton arrives. It was adapted from a film with the same name. [1] [2]
Sarah, Plain and Tall is a children's book written by Patricia MacLachlan and the winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, [1] the 1986 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, [2] and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. [3]
Juho Nätti (1890–1964), known as Nätti-Jussi, was a Finnish lumberjack known for telling tall tales; his stories have also circulated as folk tales and been collected in books. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (16th century) by the French writer François Rabelais told the tale of two giants; father and son.
A UK paperback edition was released in 1988 by Futura Orbit in 1988, and a US paperback edition was released in 1990 by Ace Books. The book was released in the 5th omnibus of Holt's books entitled Tall Stories.
Madeline is a book series, part of the Madeline media franchise, originally created by Ludwig Bemelmans.The series follows the daily adventures of Madeline, a seven-year-old girl attending a boarding school in Paris with eleven other girls, under the care of their teacher, Miss Clavel.