Theme: father

Zoo-Looking

By Book Importer | Published: February 28, 2012

Flora loves looking at all the animals in the zoo, but what a surprise–she isn’t the only one doing the looking! Flora looks at the giraffe, and the giraffe looks back.  She looks at the ostrich, and the ostrich looks back, too.  But when Flora looks at her dad, she gets the best surprise of [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Early Years (ages 2-6), Oceania, Picture Book » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Moon Pie

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Someone has to keep their head, as Mum used to say, and 11-year-old Martha is used to being that someone in her family. Her little brother, Tug, is too small. Her dad has been acting too strange. And Mum’s not here anymore. So when Dad falls off the roof, it’s Martha who ices his knee [...]

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

Nowhere Girl

By Book Importer | Published: December 5, 2011

Luchi Ann only knows a few things about herself: she was born in a prison in Thailand. Her American mother was an inmate there. And now that her mother has died, Luchi must leave the only place she’s ever known and set out into the world. Neither at home as a Thai, because of her [...]

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

Racing the Sun

By Book Importer | Published: August 16, 2011

Being an American in ian wasn’t something twelve-year-old Brandon Rogers liked to advertise. His father had left his Indian heritage behind when he went to college and Brandon had grown up in suburbia-just a regular kid. Who needed embarrassing mumbo-jumbo to make you look different? But then Brandon’s Navajo grandfather moved off the reservation and [...]

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

The Moles and the Mireuk: A Korean Folktale

By Book Importer | Published: February 17, 2011

A mole goes to the sky, sun, clouds, and wind in search of the most powerful husband for his daughter, only to find him among his own kind.

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

How to Catch a Fish

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Thirteen linked verses and handsome, mood-drenched paintings show how we catch fish–from New England to the Arctic, to Japan and Namibia and beyond.  This lovely picture book–about fishing, geography, people and customs, and the bond between parent and child fishing together–will appeal to everyone who’s cast a line in the water.

Descriptors: Canada, Hawaii, International, Ireland, Japan, Namibia, New Calendonia (France), Picture Book, Poetry, Primary (ages 6-9), Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with everyone. “Sometimes I’m sad and I don’t know why. It’s just a cloud that comes along and covers me up. Sad things happen to everyone, and sometimes people feel [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Sea Singer

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Craig Moodie’s adventure novel tells the story of twelve-year-old Finn, who stows away to search for his lost father and brothers. It’s a journey that brings storms, shipwreck, tense encounters with the inhabitants of an unexplored continent – and a coming of age for Finn, who will in the end, face his father as a young [...]

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

The Mystery of the Martello Tower

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Hazel and Ned are home for summer vacation and looking forward to long, lazy days of sleeping late, shooting hoops, building stink bombs, and spending time with their art-dealer father. But when he disappears without saying good-bye, their summer plunges into chaos. The babysitter leaves town, their apartment is burgled, and two menacing thugs start [...]

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

A Swift Pure Cry

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Ireland 1984.After Shell’s mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, [...]

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