Books

The Silver Cup

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

It’s the year 1095, and fifteen-year-old Anna longs for a different life in her small German village. But as the seasons turn, the year proves anything but ordinary. Her beloved youngest cousin disappears, and another cousin, Martin, runs away to join a murderous army of renegade Crusaders. When Anna risks everything to rescue Leah, an [...]

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Hunted

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Brind, who was raised with Sir Edmund’s pack of hunting dogs, is the huntsman of Dowe Manor. Together with his best friend, the mastiff Glaive, and the rest of the pack, he protects Sir Edmund, Lady Beatrice, and their foster daughter, Aurélie. But suddenly a tragedy strikes, one that Brind cannot prevent. In a fit [...]

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Born For Adventure

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When young Tom Ormsby cons his way onto the great explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s “Relief of Emin Pasha Expedition” in 1887, he’s looking for adventure. But he has no idea what lies ahead of him. From the exotic bazaars of Zanzibar to the mouth of the Congo River and beyond, Tom soon learns he’s signed [...]

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Little Fur: A Fox Called Sorrow

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In a Fox Called Sorrow, the adventures continue for Little Fur, the half elf, half troll girl who heals animals in a magical grove in the heart of a big city. When Little Fur discovers that the Troll King is plotting against the earth spirit that binds all living things, she sets off on a [...]

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Waves

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Hal’s family makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave Charley, their comatose daughter, behind in a hospital ward while they spend the summer on the west coast of England, Hal finds it harder than ever to shake his sister’s presence. What power is letting him share her memories? And will they reveal the deep, dark [...]

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Corydon And The Fall Of Atlantis (Corydon Trilogy)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In this second book in the Corydon trilogy, trouble has invaded the Island of Monsters once again. The peace-loving Minotaur has beenkidnapped! Signs suggest he’s been taken to the city of Atlantis, and so Corydon and his fellow monsters set sail to rescue their friend. Their travels across Poseidon’s treacherous waters involve one narrow escape [...]

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Second Fiddle: Or How To Tell A Blackbird From A Sausage

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Aspiring writer Mags Clarke has just moved with her mother to a new area after the death of her father. Because her feet are usually firmly planted on the ground, Mags is cautious about befriending Gillian, whom she enchantingly finds playing the violin high up in the trees near her house. But the two get [...]

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Susanna’s Quill

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Shortlisted for the 2005 Young Adult Canadian Book AwardSusanna’s Quill is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Susanna Moodie, writer and pioneer, by award-winning author Julie Johnston. The story takes us into Susanna’s genteel English childhood, through her humorous teenage attempts at writing, growing to her burgeoning independence, marriage to Dunbar [...]

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Everybody Bakes Bread

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A rainy-day errand introduces Carrie to many different kinds of bread, including chapatis, challah, and papusaa.

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The Book of Hob Stories

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008
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