Age: Realistic Fiction

Realistic Fiction genre

Chirchir Is Singing

By Book Importer | Published: August 24, 2011

Chirchir just wants to make herself useful like all her other family members. But she drops Mama’s water bucket, spills Kogo’s tea, and sends Baba’s potatoes tumbling down the hill. but each of their tasks proves too challenging for her.Isn’t there something that Chirchir does best?  

Other Descriptors: Africa, Early Years (ages 2-6), Kenya, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Racing the Sun

By Book Importer | Published: August 16, 2011

Being an American in ian wasn’t something twelve-year-old Brandon Rogers liked to advertise. His father had left his Indian heritage behind when he went to college and Brandon had grown up in suburbia-just a regular kid. Who needed embarrassing mumbo-jumbo to make you look different? But then Brandon’s Navajo grandfather moved off the reservation and [...]

Other Descriptors: Americas, Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

What Are You Doing?

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

It’s the first day of school, but before he goes Chepito runs outside to play. He comes across all kinds of people in his neighborhood — a man reading a newspaper, a young girl enjoying a comic, a couple of tourists consulting a guidebook, an archeologist studying hieroglyphics… “Why, why, why?” he sings, and they [...]

Other Descriptors: Americas, Early Years (ages 2-6), Mexico, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Migrant

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Migrant farmers and their families represent an ever-growing body of laborers around the world. They are used as cheap labor but most of them are not allowed to settle down, integrate into their host countries and become citizens with full rights. This is of course devastating to their children. Among these groups are the Mennonites [...]

Other Descriptors: Americas, Canada, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Bintou’s Braids

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

When Bintou, a little girl living in West Africa, finally gets her wish for braids, she discovers that what she dreamed for has been hers all along. A little girl named Bintou wants long, pretty braids that are woven with gold coins and seashells, just like her older sister and other women in their West [...]

Other Descriptors: Africa, Early Years (ages 2-6), Picture Book » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Fatuma’s New Cloth

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

In East Africa, a young girl learns that one cannot always judge by appearances as she and her mother visit a market in search of kanga cloth and meet merchants who all claim they have the secret to good chai (tea).

Other Descriptors: Africa, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Anna Hibiscus’ Song

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Anna Hibicus is so filled with happiness that she feels like she might float away. And the more she talks to her mother and father and grandfather and grandmother and aunties and cousins about it, the more her happiness grows! There’s only one thing to do. Sing!

Other Descriptors: Africa, Early Years (ages 2-6), Nigeria, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The No 1 Car Spotter

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is Number 1. He’s the Number 1 car spotter in his village. The Number 1 car spotter in the world! The start of an exciting new series about the irresistible Number 1, whose hobby is car spotting, but who is good at solving all sorts of problems for his village.

Other Descriptors: Africa, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

My Best, Best Friend

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Lola and Lotta are best, best, BESTEST friends who do completely everything together. They always pair up, they look after the tadpoles in the pond, and they especially always swap lunches. But when Evie, a new girl, joins the class, suddenly it’s Evie whom Lotta does everything with, even lunch swapping. Lola tells her brother [...]

Other Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , » Leave a comment

Who Cares?

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Rhys loves to tap dance. Knowing how his peers may react, Rhys keeps his passion to himself. Sam spends his days surfing, yet when Rhys spends the weekend at Lorne with him, he seems really keen on Rhys’s tap. Maybe Sam has a secret too.

Other Descriptors: Australia, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , » Leave a comment