Age: Genre

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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 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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Katarina

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

During World War II in Slovakia, a young Jewish girl in hiding becomes a devout Catholic and is sustained by her belief that she will return home to her family as soon as the war ends.

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Leona, A Love Story

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

In early nineteenth-century Mexico, sixteen-year-old Leona Vicario, loyal to Spain and engaged to a wealthy widower, comes to terms with her growing revolt against Spain’s harsh treatment of Mexicans and her love for a young revolutionary lawyer.

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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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Milkweed

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

The hardship and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II is captured through the eyes of a young Jewish orphan who must use all his wits and courage to survive unimaginable events and circumstances.

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Father, May I Come?

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

In 1687 young Sietze Hemmes sets in motion the rescue of a floundering ship off the coast of a Dutch island in the North Sea, and three hundred years later similar rescues are still taking place.

Other Descriptors: Europe, Historical Fiction, Netherlands, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , » Comments closed

The Shadows Of Ghadames

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

At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.

Other Descriptors: Africa, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Libya » Themes: , » Comments closed

Echoes Of The White Giraffe

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

Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul. Sequel to Year of impossible goodbyes.

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The African Mask

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

Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.

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