Theme: exile

Cry of the Giraffe

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

One girl’s harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land — all based on a true story.In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its promises of [...]

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

The Samurai’s Daughter

By Book Importer | Published: May 24, 2010

A Japanese folk tale about the brave daughter of a samurai warrior and her journey to be reunited with her exiled father. When Tokoyo’s father, a samurai nobleman, is sent into exile on a lonely island in a distant sea, his young daughter is determined to join him. Despite her noble birth, Tokoyo has spent [...]

Descriptors: Folklore, Japan, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Flight to Freedom

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

In Flight to Freedom, Anna Veciana-Suarez brings us Yara, an eighth-grader who lives in a middle-class neighborhood of 1967 Havana, Cuba. Her parents, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist party, finally are forces to flee Cuba with their children to Miami, Florida. There, Yara records in her diary the difficulties she [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Cuba, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » 1 Comment

Healing Water: A Hawaiian Story

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When thirteen-year-old Pia is sent to Hawaii’s leprosy settlement on Molokai Island in the 1860s, he chooses anger and self-reliance as his means of survival, but the faithful example of other villagers and one remarkable priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge.

Descriptors: Hawaii, Historical Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

The Eyes of a King

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTH’S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resists his innate powers, because those who demonstrate any sort of magical ability are considered enemies of the state. But when he finds a blank book in the snow, his typical [...]

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