The Book of English Folk Tales

The Book of English Folk Tales
Author: Sybil Marshall
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468315242

A stunning collection of English folklore featuring stories of beasts, giants, ghosts, saints, and the Devil, as well as moral tales and tales of origins. Master storyteller, social historian, and folklorist Sybil Marshall scoured English history to bring together a fascinating collection of folk tales in one glorious edition. Out-of-print for over thirty years, Overlook is re-issuing this bewitching book to enchant a new audience. From the great mass of folk tales that exists, Sybil Marshall has chosen a wide variety of stories, retelling them with wit and suspense. We have her tales of the little people and of giants, of the Devil and the saints, and supernatural and moral tales. Let Sybil Marshall lead you through the old English countryside, exploring the beliefs and legends of time gone by. This beautiful edition, complete with wood engraved illustrations by John Lawrence, will entertain, educate, and ensnare audiences of all ages. “A compilation of vivid, sometimes fearsome stories . . . The England we visit here has no afternoon teas or jolly rounds of cricket on lovely green lawns. In these pages, the sophisticated reader steps onto older, darker soil half-soaked in blood, superstition, and magic. . . . Wood engravings by John Lawrence deepen our sense of the blackened accretion of centuries in this fascinating collection.” —Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal

Sybil Exposed

Sybil Exposed
Author: Debbie Nathan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439168288

Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.

Speed of Light

Speed of Light
Author: Sybil Rosen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2001-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689841515

An eleven-year-old Jewish girl living in the South during the 1950s struggles with the antisemitism and racism which pervade her small community.

Sybil Ludington

Sybil Ludington
Author: E. F. Abbott
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250080347

What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver a message? That's sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington’s urgent mission. In 1777, Sybil and her family believe the American colonies should be free from British control. Sybil’s father leads a regiment of New York militiamen, and everyone in the family is dedicated to the Patriot cause. Using spy tactics and codes, the Ludingtons gather intelligence, hoping to stay one step ahead of their enemies. When British troops raid nearby Danbury, Connecticut, Sybil gallops through the night to call out her father's men. But the journey is dangerous for a girl who’s all alone. With obstacles at every turn, will she make it in time to stop the British? Based on a True Story books are exciting historical fiction about real children who lived through extraordinary times in American History. This title has Common Core connections.

A World of Fiction

A World of Fiction
Author: Sybil Marcus
Publisher: Pearson PTR Interactive
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The stories in A World of Fiction , Second Edition, by Sybil Marcus, embrace a variety of themes, literary and linguistic styles, and time frames. Advanced students will sharpen their reading, speaking, vocabulary, and writing skills as they discover the pleasure and reward of reading fiction. This anthology provides complete and unabridged selections by: Woody Allen � Kate Chopin � Nadine Gordimer � James Joyce � D.H. Lawrence � Bernard Malamud � Katherine Mansfield � William Maxwell � Frank O'Connor � Grace Paley � Anne Petry � Budd Schulberg � James Thurber � Anne Tyler � Arturo Vivante � Kurt Vonnegut � Alice Walker � Tobias Wolf � Monica Wood � Virginia Woolf Features Five new stories Updated author biographies "Focus on Language" sections that highlight grammatical structures and vocabulary Exploration of literary elements such as time, setting, action, and motive A wide variety of stimulating discussion and writing topics

Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride

Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride
Author: Marsha Amstel
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2000-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1575054566

Retells the story of Sybil Ludington's ride on horseback to rouse American soldiers to fight against the British who were attacking Danbury, Connecticut during the American Revolution.

The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly

The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly
Author: Sybil Lamb
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1551528185

In a rusted unnamed city full of five-dollar hotels and flea markets, a young homeless girl named Eggs is trying to make her way in the world. She’s shy and bold at the same time, and wary of strangers, but she is convinced beyond all reason that she can fly. And fly she does, from rooftop to rooftop, from chimneys to phone wires; she scurries up the sides of buildings, and sneaks into secret lairs. Eggs is a loner but she makes two friends: Grack, who sells 100 different kinds of hot dogs from his bicycle cart, and Splendid Wren, a punk rocker whose open window Eggs came crashing through one night. Both Grack and Splendid Wren try their best to protect her, but Eggs meets her match when on a cold night she swoops onto a rooftop and steals a warm jacket belonging to Robin, a neighbourhood baddie with anger management issues. Can Eggs elude his wrathful revenge? Beguiling and otherworldly, The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly is a fevered dream about a young girl’s flights of fancy in order to survive, and to thrive. Ages 14 and up. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

The Sibyl

The Sibyl
Author: Pär Lagerkvist
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2011-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307807118

"A parable, rather than a novel in the ordinary sense of the term, The Sibyl is . . . a work of manifold meanings and unmistakable profundity, one that can neither be easily understood nor easily forgotten." —Granville Hicks, The New Leader

By the Light of Fireflies

By the Light of Fireflies
Author: Jenni L Walsh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781954332133

Sybil Ludington believes in the legend of fireflies - they appear when you need them most. But it's not until her family is thrust into the dangers of the Revolutionary War, and into George Washington's spy ring, that Sybil experiences firefly magic for herself - guiding her through the darkness, empowering her to figure out who she's supposed to be and how strong she really is - as she delivers her imperative message. BY THE LIGHT OF FIREFLIES is the captivating tale of a young girl's journey - as a daughter, a sister, a friend, a spy, and eventually a war hero - completing a midnight ride that cements her place in history as the "female Paul Revere."

Riddance

Riddance
Author: Shelley Jackson
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1948226006

Finalist for the Believer Book Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, New York Magazine, and more "A ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable." —The New Yorker Eleven–year–old Jane Grandison, tormented by her stutter, sits in the back seat of a car, letter in hand inviting her to live and study at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing–Mouth Children. Founded in 1890 by Headmistress Sybil Joines, the school—at first glance—is a sanctuary for children seeking to cure their speech impediments. Inspired by her haunted and tragic childhood, the Headmistress has other ideas. Pioneering the field of necrophysics, the Headmistress harnesses the “gift” she and her students possess. Through their stutters, together they have the ability to channel ghostly voices communicating from the land of the dead, a realm the Headmistress herself visits at will. Things change for the school and the Headmistress when a student disappears, attracting attention from parents and police alike. Set in the overlapping worlds of the living and the dead, Shelley Jackson’s Riddance is an illuminated novel told through theoretical writings in necrophysics, the Headmistress’s dispatches from the land of the dead, and Jane’s evolving life as Joines’s new stenographer and central figure in the Vocational School’s mysterious present, as well as its future.