Books

Colibri

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

Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.

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Croco’nile

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

Set sail for adventure with Hamut and his sister Nekatu as they stow away on a sailboat, paint a pyramid, win the favor of a pharaoh, and escape their kidnappers on the back of a crocodile.

Posted in Africa, Egypt, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

Don Quixote and the Windmills

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

Immersed in tales of knights and dragons and sorcerers and damsels in distress, Senor Quexada proclaims himself a knight and sets out on his first adventure against some nearby windmills that he thinks are giants.

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Whose Is The Sun?

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

A puppy and a chick share a house, and ultimately decide that they can share the sun too.

Posted in Europe, Folklore, Primary (ages 6-9), Russia | Comments closed

Escape From Saigon: A Vietnam War Orphan Becomes An American Boy

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

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.

Posted in Asia, Biography, Viet Nam, Young Adult (ages 14-18) | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Everything On A Waffle

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

Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

Posted in Americas, Canada, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) | Tagged , | Comments closed

Friends Of The Heart: Amici Del Cuore

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

During a summer at her grandparents’ Italian seaside home, thirteen-year-old Lucrezia faces a changing relationship with her best friend Oliver and great personal tragedy.

Posted in Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Italy | Tagged | Comments closed

Girl Of Kosovo

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

Although Zana, an eleven-year-old Albanian girl, experiences the turmoil and violence of the 1999 conflict in her native Kosovo, she remembers her father’s admonition to not let her heart become filled with hate.

Posted in Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Serbia and Montenegro | Tagged , | Comments closed

Gotta Go! Gotta Go!

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

Although she does not know why or how, a small creepy-crawly bug is certain that she must make her way to Mexico.

Posted in Americas, Early Years (ages 2-6), Fantasy, Mexico, Primary (ages 6-9) | Tagged , , , , | Comments closed

The Great Blue House

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

When its owners leave, a summer house comes alive with the sounds of a mouse nibbling crumbs in the fall, a cat taking shelter in the winter, and rain falling on the roof in the spring.

Posted in Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Fiction, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) | Tagged , , | Comments closed