Issue: March 2007

The Little House In The Snow

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

It’s autumn, and Rabbit needs to find a place to live for the winter, safe from his enemies. He tries staying with other animals and other places, but finally decides to live in a house made of snow.

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Eva Underground

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.

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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When war comes, Alia Muhammad Baker, the librarian of Basra, fears the library will be destroyed, so she asks government officials for help, but they refuse, which means Alia must take matters into her own hands to protect the books that she loves.

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Dream Freedom

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Examines the modern day problem of slavery in Sudan while telling the story of how a group of American students fought to get this problem known and raise funds to help free those Dinka and Nuba tribe members already captured and working there.

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Copp

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A dollmaker cleverly schemes to pass his most beautiful doll off as a real girl, but he is outwitted by the townspeople he tries to deceive. Based on L

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Freya On The Wall

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Fourteen-year-old Freya, whose home has always been in East Germany, offers her view of the complex events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Room In The Heart

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-olds Julie Weinstein and Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.

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Shi Er Sheng Xiao De Gu Shi

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Written in Chinese. A story of the zodiac, adapted from a Chinese folklore.

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Nyumba Ya Mumbi: The Gikuyu Creation Myth

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Retells the story of the creation of the Gikuyu people of Kenya.

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Beneath The Rainbow

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Drawing on images and characters from traditional African myths, legends, and folklore, this colorful anthology features three short stories and three poems from Kenya.

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