Theme: Escape

Silent in an Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Cavell

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of duty had transformed the [...]

Descriptors: Belgium, England (UK), Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Voyage of Slaves

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Adrift in the Mediterranean Sea, Ben falls captive to a band of slave traders and their leader Al Misurata. With his faithful dog Ned at his side, Ben must plot escape as the ship of scoundrels sails up the Libyan coastline toward Italy, where a trap awaits. Ruthless enemies and hard times appear around every [...]

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Ely Plot

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

You’d think growing up in a medieval abbey, surrounded by nothing but monks and hundreds of miles of swamp, would be pretty boring. Pip thinks so too, until the day he meets Perfect, a small stone gargoyle with a life of her own. Before long, the two find themselves in the midst of an assassination [...]

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Letters from Rifka

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family’s flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.

Descriptors: Belgium, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Copper Sun

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

Two fifteen-year-old girls — one a slave and the other an indentured servant — escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

Descriptors: Americas, Historical Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , » 1 Comment