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Pancakes For Supper

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When her family’s wagon hits a bump, golden-haired Toby Littlewood is hurled into the sky and lands deep in the snowy forest. There she meets a prickly porcupine, an enormous bear, and a hungry cougar, among other fearsome creatures. Cleverly, she talks each one out of eating her by offering up her fancy clothes. In [...]

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Oliver Who Would Not Sleep

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep COULDN’T and DIDN’T and WOULD NOT SLEEP! And why should he? As soon as his parents shut his door, Oliver’s off on all kinds of explorations: painting and reading, drawing and racing — and a little trip to Mars for good measure. But his explorations end where all explorations should: safe at [...]

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Death In The Air: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Second Case (The Boy Sherlock Holmes)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable and dangerous trapeze performance high above, framed [...]

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Paddington Here And Now

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Since the Browns found Paddington on a railway platform and took him home to live with them, there has never been a dull moment at number 32 Windsor Gardens. But as he explained to them at the start, “Things happen to me: I’m that sort of a bear.” There’s the day his basket on wheels [...]

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Black Stars In A White Night Sky

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Black Stars in a White Night Sky, Lawsons second book of poetry for children, includes fractonyms, concretes, as well as short lyrics and poems that dont rhyme. Lawson stretches the boundaries of what is normally thought of as childrens poetry, but not at the expense of the books entertainment value or clarity. The poems are [...]

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Bravo, Tavo!

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Tavo, named for his father Gustavo, plays basketball so much that his sneakers are worn out. His father is too worried about the drought afflicting their small village to focus on replacing them. Gustavo thinks he can solve the water shortage, but the other villagers say he’s crazy. Tavo puts aside basketball to help prove [...]

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Maddigan’s Fantasia

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have come from, she is overwhelmed by their answer: the future.In a post-apocalyptic time, Garland’s family’s traveling circus troop, Maddigan’s Fantasia, leaves the city of Solis once a year to perform and earn a living. However, this year Solis has given the Fantasia the crucial [...]

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Being Muslim (Groundwork Guides)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Since 9/11, the world has been confronted with the most volatile facets of Islam with little explanation of how or why these controversial elements developed. Written by one of North America’s most honored journalists, Being Muslim presents an up-front and clear explanation of this complex and emotion-laden subject. Although the varying branches of Islam are [...]

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The Mzungu Boy

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

For Kariuki, life in a small village in Kenya is one great adventure. The best part of his day is the walk home from school, when he is free from both his bullying headmaster and his mother’s long list of chores. The landscape around his village is beautifully wild, and Kariuki knows it well. One [...]

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Red Land Yellow River: A Story From The Cultural Revolution

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Mao’s Cultural Revolution took hold in China in 1966, Ange Zhang was 13 years old. He lived with his family in Beijing, he attended school and excelled in drawing, and his father was a famous writer whose “Yellow River Cantata” was widely considered to be the anthem of the revolution. Yet soon, Ange’s life [...]

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