Issue: July 2007

Bringing Asha Home

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
Eight-year-old Arun waits impatiently while international adoption paperwork is completed so that he can meet his new baby sister from India.
Posted in Asia, India, Primary (Gr. K-3), Realistic Fiction | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Beauty and the Beastly Children

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
After the love of Beauty turns him from a Beast into a handsome prince, Auguste fails to reform the bad habits of his past and sees the spell passed on to his three sons.
Posted in Europe, Folklore, Primary (Gr. K-3) | Tagged | Comments closed

Younguncle Comes to Town

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
In a small town in northern India, three siblings await their father’s youngest brother, Younguncle, who is said to be somewhat eccentric.
Posted in Asia, India, Primary (Gr. K-3), Realistic Fiction | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Traitor

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
During the closing months of World War II, a fifteen-year-old German girl must decide whether or not to help an escaped Russian prisoner of war, despite the serious consequences if she does so.
Posted in Europe, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Dog Boy

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
Given to the Great Fater on the night of his birth, Boy is reared by a dog in a village whose people barely tolerate him, despite signs that he is favored, then travels far, striving to find his rightful place in the brutal world of humans.
Posted in Australia, Fiction, Oceania, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) | Tagged , , , , | Comments closed

Tanglewreck

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper–a clock that controls time–and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.
Posted in England (UK), Europe, Science Fiction, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Clay

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy’s supernatural powers.
Posted in England (UK), Europe, Fiction, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) | Tagged , | Comments closed

The Happiness of Kati

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
With the impending death of her mother, Kati, a young Thai girl, completes the puzzle of her past and discovers the reason that her mother gave her up as a baby.
Posted in Asia, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Realistic Fiction, Thailand | Tagged , | Comments closed

Something Invisible

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
With a new baby sister and a stepfather, the life of eleven-year-old Jake is full of change, but nothing prepares him for his relationship with an enigmatic girl, her large family, and the tragedy that strikes them all.
Posted in Europe, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Ireland, Realistic Fiction | Tagged , | Comments closed

Kampung Boy

By nersum | Published: July 7, 2007
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.
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