Theme: Family life

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

The Singing Mountain

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

When sixteen-year-old Carlie learns that her older cousin Mitch is staying in Israel to study at an Orthodox yeshiva, she is upset and angry. Since she was orphaned years ago, Carlie and Mitch have lived together like brother and sister. In Israel Mitch finds fulfillment in studying the Torah, in his work as an artist, [...]

Descriptors: Israel, Realistic Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » 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

Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah!

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

When her parents tell Emily that they are going to have a baby, she makes a list of the pros and cons of what is to come, which includes everyone saying baby this and baby that and baby blah blah blah when it arrives.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Wales (UK) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Buddha’s Diamonds

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

After a storm engulfs his village, a Vietnamese boy has glimmers of a new calling in this spare middle-grade novel written with authenticity and grace.Every day, Tinh heads out to sea with his father to catch fish for their family and the market. While he sometimes misses flying kites with other children on the beach, Tinh is [...]

Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Viet Nam » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Out Of Line: Growing Up Soviet

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Although the Iron Curtain is gone, the memory of the high drama, tragedy, and comedy that was life in the Soviet Union remains. It meant endless lineups in the cold — lineups enlivened by poetry and paranoia. It meant family life lived in two small rooms, but a family life that was rich in love [...]

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The Klipfish Code

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The year is 1942, and Norway is under Nazi occupation. Ten-year-old Merit is sent with her younger brother to Godoy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans Bomb Norway in 1940. Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, [...]

Descriptors: Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Norway » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Mystery of the Cupboard

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Omri puts away the cupboard in The Secret of the Indian, he vows that it will be forever. Little Bear, Boone, and the other miniature figures he had brought to life will remain plastic. But then Omri and his family move to an old country farmhouse that they inherited from a distant relative, and [...]

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

Welcome with Love

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A family helps Mom deliver her baby at home. Jenni Overend and Julie Vivas celebrate the birth of a baby at home with warmth and honesty and joy.

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

Being Bee

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Bee can’t understand what her father sees in Jazzi. Ever since Bee’s mom died, she, her dad, and her two guinea pigs, Fifi and Lulu, have been getting along just fine. Now Bee is supposed to welcome Jazzi, with her bangled skirts and her rock-hard scones and her new way of looking at everything. Imagine [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment