Age: Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Material appropriate for young adults

My Swordhand is Singing

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

WHEN TOMAS AND HIS SON, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn’t understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.But [...]

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The Road of Bones

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In school, Yuri is taught that the revolution liberated his country. He learns how the new leaders are always working for the greater good. But the truth is that life for his family and those around him is a brutal, poverty-stricken struggle. The government does nothing except punish those who protest. And one day, to [...]

Other Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia » Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Fortune’s Fool

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

CONRAD THE GOOD serves as court jester to a most unworthy master: Lord Otto “the Witless,” who rarely appreciates jesting and acrobatics and more often rewards his good fool with a good whipping. So one night, Conrad flees, leaving Otto’s realm in search of a more enlightened master—taking with him only his noble horse, Blackspur, [...]

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Mystery of the Ancient Maya

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Explores the advanced civilization and unsolved mysteries of the Maya who reigned for over 2000 years and then disappeared.

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The Running Man

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

For a long time, fourteen-year-old Joseph has wondered about old Tom Leyton, his reclusive next-door neighbor. Gossip and rumors suggest that something terrible happened to Tom in the past. Then Joseph is asked to draw Tom for a school art project, and that means Joseph has the opportunity to uncover the truth about this man [...]

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Are All the Giants Dead?

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Finding himself in a land peopled with fairy tale characters, James attempts to help Princess Dulcibel who is destined to marry a toad after her ball falls into the well.

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Dreamrider

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer–he can recognize when he is dreaming and make the dream unfold exactly as he wants. Here he is safe [...]

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Porcupine

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline, as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression. Jack and her younger sister and brother, Tessa [...]

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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 Time Thief

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.

Other Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, France, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment