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Author
Series
Six crimson cranes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family. "Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
" A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is divorced, and lonelier than he realizes. All of the women with whom he has relationships eventually leave him for being too nice. But one night he is woken by...
7) Luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young sandhill crane, Luck, finds his place in the ancient crane migration from northern Canada to the Platte River.
10) The crane girl
Author
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Feeling that the arrival of a new baby has stopped her parents from loving her, Yoshiko goes to live among the cranes, whose magic transforms her into one of their young for a while.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Milk is the polar bear postmaster of the forest. One day he receives a card that says "Please help!" It is from a red-crested crane couple whose chick has gone missing. Spring gives way to summer and Milk receives another post card--this time from a red-crested crane couple who live in another district telling him that they have been taking care of a lost crane chick and asking for help in finding its family.--Publisher.
13) Jane on a crane
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
In this eco-adventure all paths lead to a mysterious monastery high on a cliff. Rescue and reunion bring peace and purpose to both a kingdom and a young girl.