Theme: Dance

A Place In The Sun

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

In ancient Egypt, the gifted young son of a sculptor is taken into slavery when he attempts to save his father’s life, and is himself almost killed before his exceptional talent leads Pharoah to name him Royal Sculptor.

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Taking Wing

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

With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents’ farm in Vermont.

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In Flanders Fields : The Story Of The Poem By John Mccrae

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

Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer, John McCrae, who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.

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