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Coyote Christmas

a Lakota story
2007
His stomach rumbling, Coyote approaches a house on Christmas Eve hoping to trick the family there out of a hot meal by dressing as Santa Claus, but Sister Raven sees the strange events and plays a wonderful trick of her own.

Dirty tricks

2006
Richelle and her five loyal friends hit the library when a new teacher assigns them too much homework, but they are distracted from their studies by an unknown prankster whose practical jokes are making the library a treacherous place.

The tale of Tricky Fox

a New England trickster tale
2001
Tricky Fox uses his sack to trick everyone he meets into giving him ever more valuable items.

The coyote road

trickster tales
2007
A collection of stories and poems about tricksters in all parts of the world by a variety of authors.

The devil's storybooks

2012
Every now and then, the Devil likes to pop up into the world for an adventure. He?s a trickster and a mischief-maker, and just as full of vanity and other human failings. But he?s also a gifted storyteller. The Devil?s antics are presented in these two collections of stories, The Devil?s Storybook and The Devil?s Other Storybook, together in one volume. They make for delightfully wicked reading and are accompanied by charming illustrations by Natalie Babbitt.

Afterglow

2013
Ashline Wilde, her sister Eve, and new boyfriend Wes set out to stop Ash's trickster-god ex-boyfriend, Colt, once and for all when they learn he plans to kill the Cloak, the benevolent beings that oversee the gods, and merge Ash and her two sisters back into the too-powerful goddess, Pele.

Embers & echoes

2012
In Miami, Florida, seeking her younger sister, sixteen-year-old Ashline Wilde, a Polynesian volcano goddess, joins forces with other reincarnated deities but trickster Colt's diabolical plans threaten them all.

The great race

an Indonesian trickster tale
2011
An adaptation of an Indonesian folk tale about Kanchil the mouse deer and Pelan the snail.

Tricky rabbit

a story from Cambodia to read and tell
2006
An illustrated story from Cambodia in which a rabbit that loves bananas devises a clever plan to trick the villagers and fill his stomach with his favorite fruit.

Tricks and transformations

2012
A collection of six retellings of tricksters.

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