Theme: Courage

When The Bough Breaks

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Millie’s is a small family — just a mother, a father, a small brother, Hamish, and her. Both her parents had been orphaned (and were introduced in Watts’ novel Flower), but the family they created was tight-knit and loving. When Millie’s mother announces that she is pregnant, it seems life is perfect. They have each [...]

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The Secret History Of Tom Trueheart

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

When young Tom Trueheart’s seven older brothers all go missing from their ures in the Land of Stories, he embarks on a perilous mission to save them and to capture the rogue story-writer who wants to do away with the heroes.

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Brave Bitsy And The Bear

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

A small toy rabbit and a large woodland bear come to each other’s rescue during the winter

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Lucia and the Light

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

One winter in the Far North the sun disappears and Lucia, accompanied by her milk-white cat, braves the freezing cold and trolls who want to eat her, trying to find the sun and bring it back.

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Wind Tamer

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Archie learns on his tenth birthday that he is about to inherit the family curse of cowardice unless he fights the powerful hurricane that will take his bravery.

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The Giant Devil Dingo

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Unlike all the other animals and birds, the dingo was not a man in the beginning, but had always been a dog. This legend of Gaiya the giant devil-dingo tells how the modern day dingo was created.

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It Happened At School: Two Tales

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In the first of two school stories set in France, a homework assignment involving autographs excites Claudette’s class; in the second, the teacher’s boyfriend becomes a nuisance using the class’s new telephone/fax machine to express his love.

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Golden & Grey: An Unremarkable Boy And A Rather Remarkable Ghost

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When a downhearted ghost becomes the ‘invisible friend’ of an eleven-year-old boy who is an outcast in his new school, the two help each other find their place in their respective worlds.

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Netherlands

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of the Netherlands.

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Sosu’s Call

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Sosu lives in a small village on a narrow strip of land between the sea and the lagoon. He tries his best to fit in, to be just another boy, but many in the village feel a boy with legs that don’t work is bad luck. His father is told to keep Sosu at home. [...]

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