Theme: frienships

The Visconti House

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

Two lonely grade-eight kids in rural Australia develop a friendship as they work together to unlock a mystery. Laura feels like an outcast because of her family’s artist lifestyle, her curly hair and bushy eyebrows, and the decaying mansion she calls home. Leon, newer to the area, is ostracized for living with his grandmother, the [...]

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

Out of Shadows

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

A debut novel set in the early 1980s at a boy’s boarding school in the newly formed country of Zimbabwe.

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

Season of Secrets

By Book Importer | Published: February 15, 2011

Sent by their father to live in the country with their grandparents after the sudden death of their mother, Molly’s older sister Hannah expresses her grief in a raging rebellion while imaginative Molly finds herself increasingly distracted by visions, that seemingly only she can see, of a strange hunt in the nearby forest.

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

Numbers

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

Whenever Jem meets someone new, no matter who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops into her head. That number is a date: the date they will die. Burdened with such an awful awareness, Jem avoids relationships. Until she meets Spider, another outsider, and takes a chance. But while they’re waiting [...]

Descriptors: Awards, England (UK), Fantasy, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Vermonia #3

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

The quest to save Vermonia continues! Fabulous manga artwork highlights this tale of four friends who hold the fate of three worlds in their hands.In part three of the Vermonia series, General Uro’s reign of terror spreads through the Turtle Realm. When the three skateboarders from the planet Blue Star— Doug, Naomi, and Jim— are [...]

Descriptors: Asia, Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Japan » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

El cumpleaños del San Pedrito

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Description in Spanish: Es el cumpleaños del San Pedrito y todos en el bosque se ponen de acuerdo para organizarle una fiesta. La alegría se siente en todas las ramas de los árboles; hay música y comida. Pero llega el guaraguao y trata de arruinarlo todo. Sin embargo, la fiesta sigue porque el valiente pitirre [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Folklore, Primary (ages 6-9), Puerto Rico » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

El pececito mágico (Alfaguara Infantil Y Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Description in Spanish: La indiecita Yaití, en uno de sus paseos cerca del río, conoce a un pececito muy especial. Y cuando un huracán destruye el yucayeque en el que vive con su familia, recibe la ayuda de su nuevo amigo, que no sólo le demuestra aprecio, sino que le revela un secreto gracias al [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Historical Fiction, Primary (ages 6-9), Puerto Rico » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was ten, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed by his [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Cuba, Nonfiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » 8 Comments

Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 2, 2007

This is the true story of two great friends: a baby hippo named Owen, and a 130-year-old tortoise named Mzee live in Kenya. In December 2004, something astonishing happen: A frightened young hippo, separated from his family by the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia, adopted an acient Aldabra tortoise as his mother. The old tortoise, [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Kenya, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » 1 Comment

Lost and Found

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

While trying his best to help a penguin that has shown up at his door, a boy journeys all the way to the South Pole, only to realize that the penguin was never lost.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Fiction, Northern Ireland (UK), Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Comments closed