Books with title Aziz the Storyteller

From Elizabeth Koda-Callan's bestselling Magic Charmr Series, here is a delightful book that celebrates reading. The Storyteller is for every bright, sensitive little girl who loves to read. About a young girl whose mind is full of inner adventure, but who discovers that real life can be much more challenging than stories, this is a tale about being brave, of finding confidence within, of discovering that everybody-no matter how shy or full of doubt-is really good at something. Nestled in the cover is a golden book-shaped charm on a golden chain, just like the charm the little girl in the story receives as a reward. It's a memento for every passionate young reader to wear. Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club. Suitable for ages 5-9. 68,000 copies in print.

12-year-old Elena Barrios' father has AIDS, a new disease in 1992 with a 100% fatality rate. Rather than face certain ridicule and ostracism, Elena tells her friends anything but the truth, fabricating stories about him being a writer and researcher. But the reality is Elena resents her father's illness and can't face the fact that he is dying.When she is befriended by an older black woman named Ang who tells stories about her own father and the history of prejudice against African Americans in the years before the civil rights movement, Elena is transported into these stories, allowing her to experience them first hand.With Ang's help, Elena must find the courage to stand up to the bully at her school, mend her relationship with her father, and finally say goodbye.THE STORYTELLERS is a historical middle grade novel with a twist of magical realism. For ages 10-14.

Elizabeth is drawn into a dramatic story from the American Revolution when she discovers a portrait of her ancestor, a girl called Zee, who has a striking resemblance to Elizabeth. The girls' lives intertwine and Elizabeth's present-day story alternates with Zee's. As Elizabeth learns about Zee, and walks where Zee once walked and battles raged, the past becomes as vivid and real as the present.

An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.

Anna and Abel couldn't be more different. They are both seventeen and in their last year of school, but while Anna lives in a nice old town house and comes from a well-to-do family, Abel, the school drug dealer, lives in a big, prisonlike tower block at the edge of town. Anna is afraid of him until she realizes that he is caring for his six-year-old sister on his own. Fascinated, Anna follows the two and listens as Abel tells little Micha the story of a tiny queen assailed by dark forces. It's a beautiful fairy tale that Anna comes to see has a basis in reality. Abel is in real danger of losing Micha to their abusive father and to his own inability to make ends meet. Anna gradually falls in love with Abel, but when his enemies begin to turn up dead, she fears she has fallen for a murderer. Has she?Award-winning author Antonia Michaelis moves in a bold new direction with her latest novel: a dark, haunting, contemporary story that is part mystery, part romance, and part melodrama.

Atticus the Storyteller is determined to take part in the great Storytelling Festival near Troy. He leaves his family in Crete and sets off on a year-long journey round Greece with his donkey, Melissa; and wherever he goes he tells his favourite myths to anyone who'll listen.The 100 myths include all the favourites, such as the wanderings of Odysseus, the labours of Heracles, the stories of King Midas, Daedalus and Icarus, and Theseus and the Minotaur. Atticus's journey takes the reader to all the sites of the myths and gives a captivating glimpse of how life was lived in Ancient Greece.This is an unparalleled introduction to the Greek myths for younger children, excitingly told, wonderful to read aloud, and illustrated on every opening with lively, engaging, colourful pictures full of authentic detail. In Orion's tradition of extra-large great-value story books, this is an outstandingly good resource for every family.

“When your soul is trapped in a book, there's only one thing you can do. Tell your way out.”The pages have gone blank and Ruth Mar finds her soul trapped in a book. How does a soul become stuck in a book? Well if she knew the answer to that, she would never have been in such a terrible spot. Nevertheless, this is not the story of how she lost her soul. It is the story of how her soul escapes.Guided by the hints of Professor Vernon James, her aunt's mysterious neighbor, Ruth discovers the book's evil power. Her thoughts are written on the blank pages. The only way out, to trap another soul with a story so good, the final page is turned. But there are rules to this deadly game.Rule #1: You must tell your story one page at a time.Rule #2: Your thoughts remain while the book is open. Rule #3: Your story must be original. Nothing copied or borrowed is allowed. Rule #4: To free your soul, another’s must be trapped. From the ancient plains of Africa to a neighborhood birthday party, Ruth's race to save her soul comes at a terrible price, with another reader gasping in horror at the final four words.Your Soul is Mine!See the trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adQTJPfNmEI