Issue: July 2007

Dawn and Dusk

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

As thirteen-year-old Azad tries desperately to cling to the life he has known, the political situation in Iran during the war with Iraq finally forces his family to flee their home and seek safety elsewhere.

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The Falconer’s Knot : A Story of Friars, Flirtation and Foul Play

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

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Montmorency’s Revenge

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

As Queen Victoria lies dying and with her family in danger, a group of friends races to track down the anarchists responsible for George’s death, even as Montmorency seeks to teach a new generation to forgive.

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Could You? Would You?

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

A book of questions and possibilities to get kids laughing, thinking, talking, drawing, writing and exploring the world.

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Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

In Malawi and Zambia, children who have lost family to the AIDS pandemic tell their stories. This book is about the power of the human spirits to endure and hope for a better tommorrow.

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Seesaw Girl

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

Jade Blossom can never go beyond her family’s Inner court. Every girl from a good family in seventeenth-century Korea must stay at home and learn to sew and work in the kitchen to prepare her for her future life in her husband’s Inner Court.  Jade has other interests. She longs to take trips to the [...]

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Hidden On The Mountain : Stories Of Children Sheltered From The Nazis In Le Chambon

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

As the Nazi Army invaded one European country after another at the onset of World War II, desperate Jewish families fled. Their lives were in danger, and many of them had nowhere to turn for help.

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The Alchemyst : The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.

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Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat : Memories of My Childhood in Turkey

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

Sister Shako, an old woman whose family was killed in a vendetta, lives with her goats in eastern Turkey. She asks for shelter from Dalokay’s father who was the landlord of the village. The young boy’s friendship with the old woman flourishes with daily visits.

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Where We Once Belonged

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

The Samoan storytelling narratives tell Samoan’s culture and the experience of being a young woman coming of age in that culture.

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