Theme: captivity

Chee-Lin: A Giraffe’s Journey

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world.The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin.This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once before—at the birthof Confucius.In a [...]

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Aria

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Aria is different from the other children in her village because she cannot speak. But Aria loves being with the birds around her jungle home — with them, she is free to be herself. When the village men begin to catch the birds to sell in their market-place, Aria moves out of the village to [...]

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The Boy who Ran with the Gazelles

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A desert nomad woman has no milk, so brings her pet gazelle for her son to nurse. One day the boy and the gazelle wander off, and the pet gazelle finds a herd of her own kind. She protects the boy and he learns to run and feed himself. Hunters discover and capture him. He [...]

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