Region: Europe

Materials from Europe

Meena

By Book Importer | Published: May 18, 2012

The children of Fly Street fear and taunt their neighbor Meena, thinking she is a witch, but when they meet her granddaughter and taste her cherry pie, they learn the truth.

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

Trafficked

By Book Importer | Published: May 16, 2012

A seventeen-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.

Other Descriptors: Moldova, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , » 1 Comment

Sardine in Outer Space 2

By Book Importer | Published: April 17, 2012

The red-headed space heroine is back! This time, the evil Supermuscleman has developed a device for controlling children-a brainwashing machine! It’s up to Sardine, Little Louie, and Captain Yellow Shoulder to keep him from using it. This installment of twelve more stories is filled with even more strange creatures-including a space Santa Claus, pesky flies [...]

Other Descriptors: Fantasy, France, Graphic Novel, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Teens in Russia

By Book Importer | Published: April 17, 2012

The Russian Federation has been an independent country since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. For Russian teenagers, this change has presented many opportunities. At school, teens are learning about a history that the communist government tried to hide. In their free time, they are learning to express themselves in ways their parents [...]

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

Puppet

By Book Importer | Published: April 17, 2012

A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s. The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian [...]

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

Breaking Stalin’s Nose

By Book Importer | Published: April 12, 2012

In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.

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

Puffling Patrol

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

Ted and Betsy Lewin detail the annual rescue of baby puffins by the children of Heimaey, the largest island in the Westman Islands off the coast of Iceland. Includes additional information about puffins and the Westman Islands, glossary, and further reading. Authors Ted and Betsy Lewin discuss Puffling Patrol.

Other Descriptors: Iceland, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Picture Book, Scandinavia » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

David

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

An eighteen-year-old stonecutter who is caught in the middle of political conflict in Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, must flee for his life in disguise because his has become the best-known face and figure in Florence.

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

The Deserter

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

To save the members of his tribe from being devoured by the beasts that share their primitive world, Stopmouth must make his way to the mysterious, futuristic world above, even though a virus is destroying the Upstairs and driving millions of refugees to seek shelter below.

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

My Family for the War

By Book Importer | Published: April 10, 2012

Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to [...]

Other Descriptors: England (UK), Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment