Age: Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Material appropriate for young adults

The Heaven Shop

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

Binti and her siblings struggle to survive when they are split up and sent to different parts of Malawi after their parents die of AIDS.

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Kobzar’s Children: A Century Of Stories By Ukrainians

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

An anthology of stories and poems that chronicle the lives and struggles of Ukrainian immigrants during the past century.

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The Turning

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

When sixteen-year-old Ben Larsson is forced to move to London with his estranged father after his mother’s death, unexplained events begin to happen and an ancient force begins to lure him into nearby woods.

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The Ghost Horse Of Meadow Green

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

Kim is new to the area and looking forward to the day her ill grandmother comes to live with her family, but when life with her grandmother turns out to be different than she had expected, her interest shifts to a beautiful black horse.

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Four Steps To Death

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

A million people were killed in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, one of the worst battles in history, and the intertwined stories of three people, each told in third person, offer a human-scale account of the cataclysm.

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Ssi, Short Story International, Vol. 78

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

Tales by the world’s great contemporary writers, presented unabridged. Bimonthly serial publication.

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Playing Beatie Bow

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

Disturbed that her mother could welcome back her unfaithful father, Abigail Kirk undergoes a mysterious voyage to nineteenth-century Australia, where her experiences help her to understand the power of love and to accept her father.

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No Words To Say Goodbye

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

Forced to leave her native Soviet Union because of anti-Semitism, a young girl journeys to the United States where she records her experiences in a journal, as she adjusts to a new way of life. Also written by Kelli Pryor.

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Coming-Of-Age: Traditions And Rituals Around The World

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

An anthropological perspective on coming-of-age rituals in societies around the world examines elements unique to specific rituals as well as elements common to all.

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China Under Communism

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

This history of modern China covers the origins, founding, and development of the country’s Communist regime and examines the forces that are pushing the country–nuclear power and the home of a fifth of the world’s population–toward change.

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