Region: Ethiopia

Materials from Ethiopia

Pulling The Lion’s Tail

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

Her grandfather finds a clever way to help an impatient young Ethiopian girl get to know her father’s new wife.

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Cry of the Giraffe

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

One girl’s harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land — all based on a true story.In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its promises of [...]

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Escape Under the Forever Sky

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Loosely based on real-life events this suspenseful story by a debut novelist is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy’s mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia so Lucy’s life must be one big adventure right? Wrong. Lucy’s worrywart mother keeps her locked up inside the ambassador’s residence. [...]

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Ethiopia

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, culture, daily life, and people of the country known as “the roof of Africa.”

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Faraway Home

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

As her father prepares for a trip back to his childhood home in Ethiopia, Desta begins to worry. Where does her father truly belong–in the village of his youth or here in America with her? What was growing up in Ethiopia like? And will her father’s love for his family be enough to bridge these [...]

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The Lion Hunter (The Mark Of Solomon)

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

It is the sixth century in Aksum, Africa. Young Telemakos—King Arthur’s half-Ethiopian grandson—is still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the far desert, trying to learn who was breaking the Emperor’s plague quarantine. Before he is fully himself again, tragedy and menace strike, and he finds himself sent, with his baby sister, [...]

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The Storyteller’s Beads

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

During the strife and famine of the 80′s, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.

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The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa

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

In the Ethiopian mountain village of Lalibela, famous for its churches and honey, a young girl determines to find a way to be a beekeeper despite being told that is something only men can do.

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