Region: Belgium

Materials from Belgium

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.

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Angry Dragon

By Book Importer | Published: June 9, 2011

When a little boy hears “no” from his mother one time too many, he feels his anger rising. It burns and builds, finally turning him into a giant dragon that destroys everything in its path. Nothing is safe: not toys or stuffed animals—not even Mom and Dad. But fortunately, a dragon’s fire doesn’t last forever.

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Back into Mommy’s Tummy

By Book Importer | Published: June 9, 2011

On her fifth birthday, a little girl has an unusual birthday wish. She wants to go back to being a baby in her mother’s tummy. That way she’d never have to go to bed early, and she’d always be close to her mommy. But when she realizes that babies in tummies can’t go to birthday [...]

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Up and Away with the Little Witch!

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

  When Trixie comes to visit, Lizzy, the Little Witch, decides to conjure up a magic carpet for them. “Abracadabra, abracaduss, Carpet, oh, carpet, Fly away with us!” She chants, and PRESTO! they’re up and away on an all-night adventure!   Fly with Lizzy and Trixie as they visit the Caravan Witch, the Boat Witch, [...]

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The Curious Little Witch

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

What happens when a little witch gets curious?   An international bestseller comes to the US!  Lizzy is a curious little witch. Late one night she spots an old house all lit up when everyone else is asleep, and she can’t help herself. She just has to investigate. The Little Witch books have been favorites around [...]

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Truce

By Book Importer | Published: February 8, 2010

On July 29th 1914, the world’s peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south. What followed was like a row of falling dominoes as one European country after another rushed into war. Soon most of Europe was fighting in this calamitous war that [...]

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

Sarah’s Little Ghosts

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Sarah breaks her mother’s favorite necklace, she lies to cover it up. But the lie isn’t the only thing that comes out of her mouth. A little ghost pops out, too! And for every new lie Sarah tells, another ghost appears. There seems to be only one way to get rid of them, but [...]

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Sam’s New Friend

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Sam is only friends with boys. Boys are strong and tough–girls aren’t. But when Ellie joins Sam’s class and he’s forced to get to know her, he finds out that her parents may be getting a divorce. Then Sam sees just how strong and tough a girl can be, and he makes his first real [...]

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Letters from Rifka

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family’s flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.

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

Silent in an Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Cavell

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of duty had transformed the [...]

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