Theme: Danger

Fly Trap

By Book Importer | Published: June 15, 2011

Having barely escaped the revolution they had a huge (if accidental) part in causing, sharp-eyed orphan Mosca Mye; her guard goose, Saracen; and their sometimes-loyal companion the con man Eponymous Clent, must start anew. All too quickly, they find themselves embroiled in fresh schemes and twisting politics as they are trapped in Toll, an odd [...]

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Stone Men

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

Grandma tells Arnie how a poor peddler saved a village from being destroyed by soldiers with the help of the stone men he always made on his journeys.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Fantasy, Picture Book, Russia » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

My Freedom Trip: A Child’s Escape from North Korea

By Book Importer | Published: February 23, 2011

The story of a young girl’s escape from North Korea, based on the life of the authors’ mother.

Descriptors: Biography, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Korea, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Little Panda

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

In the misty mountains a little panda bear climbs tall trees, munches sweet bamboo, and curls up in his favorite perch to sleep. It is just right—until Mother Panda goes looking for a snack and Little Panda’s nap is disturbed by something unexpected.

Descriptors: Asia, China, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Darkest Evening

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Jake’s life is turned upside down when his father gets caught up in the Socialist fervor washing over their Finnish mining community in Minnesota. His father decides to move their family to a new, Finnish state inside the Soviet Union, a change that fills Jake with dread. Where his father dreams of creating a worker’s [...]

Descriptors: Finland, Historical Fiction, Russia, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Barkbelly

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

One silver-starry night, a shiny, wooden egg falls from a flying machine high in the air down, down, down through the midnight sky down to the small village of Pumbleditch, where Barkbelly is born. Where he’s the only wooden boy. And where he’s the cause of a tragic accident.Suddenly, Barkbelly’s only choice is to flee [...]

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

Woolvs in the Sitee

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

With no family and little support from his only ally, Miss Radinski, Ben knows that he will have to venture onto the dangerous streets alone to face the woolvs that no one believes exist.  The exact nature of the danger is not identified and so the book is open to many different interpretations.  Uses invented [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Picture Book, Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The year is 2194, and Tendai, his brother, and his sister — the children of Zimbabwe’s chief of security — have escaped from their father’s estate to explore the dangerous city of Harare. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm was a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Notable [...]

Descriptors: Fantasy, Myth, Young Adult (ages 14-18), Zimbabwe » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

The Lion Hunter (The Mark Of Solomon)

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

It is the sixth century in Aksum, Africa. Young Telemakos—King Arthur’s half-Ethiopian grandson—is still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the far desert, trying to learn who was breaking the Emperor’s plague quarantine. Before he is fully himself again, tragedy and menace strike, and he finds himself sent, with his baby sister, [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Ethiopia, Fantasy, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Into The Woods

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Storm, Aurora, and Anything Eden live in a decaying mansion on the edge of the wilds with their erstwhile father and indolent mother. When an accident leaves them orphaned and at the mercy of the sinister Dr. DeWilde, these three courageous and eccentric sisters are forced to flee into the woods, where they encounter kidnappers, [...]

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