Issue: December 2008

Four Feet, Two Sandals

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When relief workers bring used clothing to the refugee camp, everyone scrambles to grab whatever they can. Ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot perfectly, until she sees that another girl has the matching shoe. Soon Lina and Feroza meet, each wearing one coveted sandal. Together they solve the [...]

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The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He’s after them, [...]

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The Viper within

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Bitter and angry after his parents’ divorce, Jon joins a cult, The Religion of Hebetheus, at his high school and soon becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap a fellow student and suspected terrorist, but their plans go terribly wrong.

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The Klipfish Code

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The year is 1942, and Norway is under Nazi occupation. Ten-year-old Merit is sent with her younger brother to Godoy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans Bomb Norway in 1940. Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, [...]

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Snake and Lizard

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Snake is elegant, calm and a little self-centered, while Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. Through a series of small (and not so small) adventures, the two friends bicker, compete with each other, go into business and finally, end up as lifelong friends.

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Ibby’s Magic Weekend

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When straight-arrow Ibby visits her two troublemaking cousins in their chaotic country house, she learns of an old box of magic tricks they found hidden in the attic. Ibby thinks magic is nothing but sleight of hand until her cousin Francis shrinks to the size of her thumb! The trio gets into all sorts of [...]

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Climbing the Stairs

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A remarkable debut novel set in India that shows one girl’s struggle for independence. During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police, she is forced to live with her grandfather’s large traditional [...]

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For Those About To Write: How I Learned To Love Books And Why I Had To Write Them

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Dave Bidini’s quirky personal path to becoming a writer (as well as a well-known rock musician and sports enthusiast) began when he was very young and loved to pick at the typewriter.

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Brave Story

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Young Wataru Mitani’s life is a mess. His father has abandoned him and his mother has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Desperately he searches for some way to change his life—a way to alter his fate.   To achieve his goal, he must navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures [...]

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One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Based on a true events, this inspiring picture book tells the story of an American family who establishes contact with a German family after World War II and sends them a package of much-needed supplies, including shoes.

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