Theme: Faith

Porcupine

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline, as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression. Jack and her younger sister and brother, Tessa [...]

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

One Earth, One Spirit: A Child’s Book of Prayers from Many Faiths and Cultures

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

All over the world, in every country and culture, people express their innermost thoughts, feelings, and hopes through prayer. When we pray, the mystery and beauty of the universe and of our own earth can comfort and uplift us, for our prayers give us a way of connecting with something greater than ourselves.This collection of [...]

Descriptors: International, Poetry, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a 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

Torn Thread

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In an attempt to save his daughter’s life, Eva’s father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

Descriptors: Czech Republic, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Poland » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Day the Stones Walked

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Pico’s father isn’t like the other fathers on Easter Island. Instead of building boats or hunting octopus, he sculpts the giant stone figures that he believes, in times of trouble, will rise and walk. Impossible, thinks Pico, until the Great Wave crashes into the island and Pico experiences firsthand the wonder of the stones. In [...]

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Jango: Book Two of the Noble Warriors

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Seeker, the Wildman, and Morning Star discover that the mysterious warrior sect they had been so desperate to join is not quite what it appears from the outside.

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

Almost Eden

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 15, 2007

Growing up in Mennonite community on the Canadian prairie in the late 1960s, Elsie, 12, blames herself when Mom is once again hospitalized for depression. Elsie confesses God about her guilt. The story has two adventures; Elsie loses faith and then finds it again.

Descriptors: Americas, Canada, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , » Comments closed

A Boot Fell from Heaven

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

After God drops one of his boots while sitting on a rainbow, he travels down to Earth to find it, and is surprised that no one wants to help him.

Descriptors: Denmark, Europe, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Scandinavia » Other Themes: , , , , » Comments closed