Theme: Dogs

Polo: The Runaway Book

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

While trying to retrieve his new book from a thieving alien, Polo has a series of adventures and eventually helps the alien and his people. Wordless Book

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A Dog For Life

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

When John, who has a special ability to communicate with animals, finds that his dog, Mouse is scheduled to go to the pound, he and Mouse decide to run away and find his uncle who may be able to help them.

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Shiva’s Fire

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

In India, Parvati, a talented dancer with supernatural powers, is invited to Madras to study with a great master and sacrifices friends and family for her art. By the Newbery Honor winning author of Shabanu.

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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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More Russian Picture Tales

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

Retells ten traditional folk tales about the animals and peasants of the Russian countryside.

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The Raven’s Gift: A True Story From Greenland

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

Follows two travellers as they journey along the coast of Greenland by kayak and dogsled, and describes the island’s geography, people, and wildlife, particluarly their encounter with an injured raven.

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Another Shore

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

Seventeen-year-old Lyn, working in a reconstructed colonial settlement in Nova Scotia, suddenly finds herself transported back to 1744, when the French inhabitants are at war with England.

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Bound

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

In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child’s feet so that she alone might marry well.

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The Night Of Las Posadas

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

At the annual celebration of Las Posadas in old Santa Fe, the husband and wife slated to play Mary and Joseph are delayed by car trouble, but a mysterious couple seems perfect for the part.

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Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

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

When someone steals the winner’s trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.

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