Theme: anger

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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Departure Time

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

Departure Time is the amazing journey of a girl in two stories. The girl in the hotel with the fox and the rat, and the girl whose father travels a lot, who suggests they write a story together, a story about talking animals. She doe sn’t wan to. She is angry with him, because he [...]

Descriptors: Age, Awards, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Netherlands, Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , , » 2 Comments

Mad At Mommy

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Little Bunny is VERY MAD at his mommy. She sleeps too late. She talks too much.She watches her silly shows instead of cartoons.And she gets mad for no reason — just a few little bubbles on the floor.The only thing left to do is run away. But does he really want to leave Mommy behind [...]

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The Savage

By Book Importer | Published: February 22, 2010

Mysterious and utterly mesmerizing, this graphic-novel-within-a-novelpairs the extraordinary prose of David Almond with the visual genius ofDave McKean. Blue Baker is writing a story — not all that stuff about wizards and fairies and happily ever after — a real story, about blood and guts and adventures, because that’s what life’s really like. At least [...]

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The Boy from over There

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Avramik, a young Holocaust survivor, has difficulties adjusting to life on a kibbutz in the days before the first Arab-Israeli War.

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

Healing Water: A Hawaiian Story

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When thirteen-year-old Pia is sent to Hawaii’s leprosy settlement on Molokai Island in the 1860s, he chooses anger and self-reliance as his means of survival, but the faithful example of other villagers and one remarkable priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge.

Descriptors: Hawaii, Historical Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

The Mutiny On The Bounty

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Life sailing with the Royal Navy in the 1780’s was particularly miserable: sailors slept in crowded hammocks, ate moldy cheese and maggoty bread, and were subject to very harsh discipline.  So when the HMS Bounty arrived in Tahiti after 11 months at sea, the crew of the Bounty thought it was heaven on earth. Living [...]

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