Books

Kit’s Wilderness

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

In Stoneygate there was a wilderness where the ancient coal pit had once been. Here Kit met Askew, who has a strange ability to draw other children to his game called Death. When Askew disappears, it is up to Kit to find him and bring him back.

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The Acorn Eaters

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

An award-winning story by a Dutch author is set in the peasant country of Andalusia after the Spanish Civil War, when a poor youth struggles to help feed his family under the gun of the landowners.

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The Fox And The Wolf: Ukrainan Folk Tale

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

The fox and the wolf play tricks on one another, with neither one ultimately triumphing, until fox manages the best trick of all and fools the wolf into putting his tail into icy water and losing it.

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Anthony and the Girls

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

Wanting the two girls in the sandbox to take notice of him, young Anthony breaks out all of his best tricks to get them to look his way but to no avail.

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The Apprentice

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

Working as an artist’s apprentice in Renaissance Florence, thirteen-year-old Arduino makes a discovery which may cost him the chance to become a painter.

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The Biggest Soap

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

When Kessy, who lives in the Truk Islands, is sent by his mother to buy laundry soap, he hurries back to listen to her storytelling, discovering that his own experience makes a good story too.

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The Blood Stone

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

In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, stopping in India to raise the ransom by selling his father’s beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan.

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Escape To West Berlin

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

In 1961 East Berlin, thirteen-year-old Heidi copes with the stress of a crisis with her best friend, government pressure on her father to leave his West Berlin job, her mother’s pregnancy, and the ever-present threat of the closing of the border.

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A Chance Child

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

Compelled to search for his half-brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep’s personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.

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The Crow-Girl: The Children Of Crow Cove

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

After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house by the cove and begins a journey which leads her to people and experiences that exemplify the wisdom her grandmother had shared with her.

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