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Theme: slavery
Voyage of the Snake Lady
Since the fall of Troy, Myrina has built the Moon Riders into a strong and potent band of warrior women. But the son of Achilles is bent on revenge, and the Moon Riders are displaced from their home and fighting for their lives. Plagued with slavery, storms, shipwreck, and strife, the Moon Riders must accept [...]
Descriptors: Greece, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Myth Other Themes: Achilles, Amazon, ancient Greek world, Friendship, Horse, Revenge, Survival, wild horse, woman warrior Leave a comment
From Another World
Martin and his friends are helping their parents turn an old Brazilian coffee plantation into an inn. The children have a fun time helping to renovate the old place and they sleep in a shed that is being converted into a guest room. But one night they hear the sound of a young girl crying. [...]
Descriptors: Brazil, Fantasy, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Other Themes: Death, Ghost, History, human cruelty, plantation, social conscience, Storytelling Leave a comment
Forest of the Pygmies
Alexander Cold and Nadia Santos reunite for their final adventure in Isabel Allende’s celebrated trilogy. This time they are heading to the blazing plains of Kenya, where Alex’s grandmother Kate is writing an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches the camp in search of companions [...]
Descriptors: Africa, Fantasy, Kenya, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Other Themes: Adventure, Africa, corruptions, freedom, Grandmother, Journey, Kenya, Poaching, power, pygmes, Spanish Latin America literatures Leave a comment
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
Every Life Makes a Story Djo has a story: Once he was one of “Titid’s boys,” a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive, the victim of a political firebombing. Jeremie has a story: Convent-educated Jeremie can climb out of the slums [...]
Descriptors: Caribbean, Haiti, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Other Themes: corruptions, dictator, freedom, Haiti, oppressions, Poverty, Revolution, social actions, social reform 2 Comments
The Penalty
Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of eighteen-year-old Ricardo, a soccer prodigy known as “El Brujito,” while in alternate chapters a slave in old San Juan becomes a powerful voodoo priest.
Descriptors: Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Latin America, Mystery, Realistic Fiction Other Themes: corruption, Dark, disappear, Kidnapping, Magic, San Juan, Soccer, superstition, Time travel, voodoo Leave a comment
Snowbone
One pale wooden girl stands on the shore of Black Sand Bay, where the sea meets the sky and the wind meets the water. But Snowbone knows that she and her wooden friends can’t stay here forever. Something is happening deep within the forest. Something—someone—that must be stopped. Determined to save the Ashenpeakers from a [...]
Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Other Themes: Adventure, Dark, Friend, good leader Leave a comment
Copper Sun
Two fifteen-year-old girls — one a slave and the other an indentured servant — escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Descriptors: Americas, Historical Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Other Themes: Escape, plantation 1 Comment
Iqbal
When Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, he changes everything for the other overworked and abused children there. Iqbal explains that despite their master’s promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinitely. Iqbal also inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil…and is brave enough to [...]
Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Pakistan Other Themes: carpet, Child labor Leave a comment
On October 20, 2010 at 7:00 P.M., Rosemary Wells, illustrator and author of the preschool series Max and Ruby, will be at Worlds of Words physical location on the 4th floor of the College of Education at the University of Arizona.
The Walls Of Cartagena