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1) Anansi boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
His past marked by his father's embarrassing taunts and untimely death, a young man meets the brother he never knew and is introduced to new and exciting ways to spend his time
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Anansi the spider invites Turtle to a party just to play a trick on him, Turtle gets revenge at a party of his own
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The West Indian trickster Anancy Spiderman tries to persuade Sun-Spirit, Water-Spirit, Earth-Spirit, and Air-Spirit to create the world's first palm trees so that he can collect a reward from the king
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk
Author
Publisher
TumbleBooks.com
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This classic folktale from Africa, written by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk, tells the story of when Anansí goes to help his grandmother. Upon arrival he finds her steaming hot pot of beans, which he can't resist. This is where the fun begins.
15) Fibbed
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nana is not a liar. She always tells the truth, as ridiculous as it sounds to hear about the troupe of circus squirrels stealing her teacher's toupee. When another outlandish explanation lands her in hot water again, her parents announce that Nana will be spending the summer with her grandmother in Ghana. She isn't happy to be living with family that she barely knows, and in a country where she can't really speak the native language. But all her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fairy tale retold as a silly adventure featuring Principal Bundy. In this Mr. Bundy (mis)adventure, PS 88’s beloved principal is turned into a spider thanks to a trickster named Mr. Anansi Araknid. How will Mr. Bundy get himself out of this tangled web of trouble?
Author
Series
Tristan Strong (graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Seventh grader Tristan Strong is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from a tragedy. But he has no idea what's in store for him. On his first night there, he accidentally rips open a chasm into MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that...
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Strong family is having a reunion in New Orleans, and twelve-year-old Tristan is supposed to be keeping an eye on his younger cousin Terrance when several things happen at once: he sees his archenemy, King Cotton, and a mysterious girl grabs his magic cellphone--her name is Seraphine, and she seems to know everything about Tristan and the god Anansi (currently inhabiting the cellphone), and she has a mission for Tristan, one that is going lead...
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Who's in Rabbit's house? : Adapted from a Masai folktale about a rabbit who can't get into her house, because the "Long One" who eats trees and tramples elephants, is hiding inside.
A story, a story : An African tale of how Ananse, the spider man, buys stories from Nyame, the Sky God, so they can be retold to the children on earth.
Anansi the spider : Anansi, one of the great folk heroes of the world, is saved from a terrible fate by his six sons,...
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