Theme: education

Blue Mountain Trouble

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

After being saved from a disastrous landslide by an extraordinary goat that blocks their usual way to school, twins Pollyread and Jackson, living with their parents high in the mountains of Jamaica, find the strange goat reappearing at crucial intervals as their day-to-day life is changed by series of mysterious events involving the return of [...]

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

Josias, Hold the Book

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Every Morning Josias is hard at work in the family’s garden under the hot Haitian sun. And every morning he sees his friend Chrislove walk to school. When will you join us to hold the book? asks Chrislove. But Josias has a garden to tend and no time to learn to read and write, especially [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Haiti, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

Keeping Corner

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Pretty as a peacock, twelve-year-old Leela had been spoiled all her life. She doesn’t care for school and barely marks the growing unrest between the British colonists and her own countrymen. Why should she? Her future has been planned since her engagement at two and marriage at nine. Leela’s whole life changes, though, when her husband [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, India, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Tibili: The Little Boy Who Didn’t Want to Go to School

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

After Tibili, a young African boy, follows Crope the spider’s suggestion as to how he can avoid starting school, he discovers he wants to go after all.

Descriptors: Africa, Early Years (ages 2-6), Fiction, France, Picture Book » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Diary of Ma Yan

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 13, 2007

Ma Yan’s heart-wrenching, honest diary chronicles her struggle to escape hardship and bring prosperity to her family through her persistent, sometimes desperate, attempts to continue her schooling in a drought-stricken corner of rural China.

Descriptors: China, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment