Books

What’s Cooking, Jamela?

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

Jamela is responsible for fattening up the chicken intended for Christmas dinner, but instead she gives it a name and makes it her friend.

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Peach Heaven

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

The Korean town where Yangsook lives is famous for wonderful peaches, but one year a heavy rainstorm ushers the farmers’ crop down the mountain where children eagerly eat the expensive treat. Take a closer look at Peach Heaven as examined in WOW Review.

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A Pipkin Of Pepper

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

While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but Duck stops to look at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.

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Shiva’s Fire

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

In India, Parvati, a talented dancer with supernatural powers, is invited to Madras to study with a great master and sacrifices friends and family for her art. By the Newbery Honor winning author of Shabanu.

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The Ant And The Astronaut

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

An ant meets an astronaut one day as he is landing back on earth, and the astronaut tells him of his space travels and some stories about the other side of the world.

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Smiling For Strangers

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

During the war, fourteen-year-old Nina flees from her village in Yugoslavia, armed only with some letters and a photograph, to search for an old friend of her mother’s in England.

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The Spring Tone

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

Plagued by headaches and nightmares, Tomomi tries to make sense of her grandmother’s death, her little brother’s obsession with saving sick and abandoned cats, and her fear that she is becoming a monster.

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Year of No Rain

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

In 1999, when rebel soldiers come to their village in southern Sudan, Stephen and his friends escape but hope to be able to return again.

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Turtle Bay

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

Taro is fascinated by the strange actions of old Jiro-San, who sweeps the sand on the beach while waiting for the arrival of Japanese sea turtles ready to lay their eggs.

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Victor: A Novel Based On The Life Of The Savage Of Aveyron

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

A novel based on the work of Dr. Jean Marc Itard who spent the years shortly after the French Revolution working with a ‘savage’ boy whom he called Victor, trying to prove he was not an idiot and to teach him how to live in human society.

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