Theme: Hair

Pippi Longstocking

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In 1950, Viking published the original English version of Pippi Longstocking, the story of an irrepressible red-haired, freckle-faced girl who lived with a monkey and a horse, slept with her feet on the pillow, and found her way into the hearts of children all over the world. Now, Astrid Lindgren’s best-selling book has been given [...]

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Elephants And Golden Thrones: Inside China’s Forbidden City

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A rare look inside one of the wonders of the world, published in time for the 2008 Olympics in ChinaFor five hundred years, the Forbidden City was the seat of power of China’s emperors. Given rare access to this vast and beautiful complex, Trish Marx and Ellen B. Senisi explore its secrets in full-color photographs [...]

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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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Someone Named Eva

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

On the night Nazi soldiers come to her home in Czechoslovakia, Milada’s grandmother says, “Remember, Milada. Remember who you are. Always.” Milada promises, but she doesn’t understand her grandmother’s words. After all, she is Milada, who lives with her mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her beloved Babichka. Milada, eleven years old, the [...]

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Angel’s Grace (Paula Wiseman Books)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Grace has always had wild red hair like no one else in her family and a birthmark on her shoulder that her mother told her was the mark of an angel. When Grace is sent from New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in Trinidad, she looks through the family album and discovers [...]

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Dingo

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

High school senior Miguel’s life is turned upside down when he meets new girl Lainey, whose family has just moved from Australia. With her tumbled red-gold hair, her instant understanding of who he is, and her unusual dog—a real Australian dingo—she’s unforgettable. And, as he quickly learns, she is on the run from an ancient [...]

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Frozen Fire

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A paranormal thriller from Carnegie Medal–winner Tim Bowler! It starts with a phone call. “I’m dying,” a voice tells Dusty. Who is he and how has he gotten her cell number? Dusty wants no part of this strange boy . . . until he begins saying things that only someone who knows her intimately could [...]

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The Three Snow Bears

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Aloo-ki glances up from fishing and sees her sled dogs floating off on an ice floe. She races after them and comes upon an igloo. Being a curious girl, she goes inside only to find no one home. That’s because the polar bear family who lives there is out walking while their breakfast cools off. [...]

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Pancakes For Supper

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When her family’s wagon hits a bump, golden-haired Toby Littlewood is hurled into the sky and lands deep in the snowy forest. There she meets a prickly porcupine, an enormous bear, and a hungry cougar, among other fearsome creatures. Cleverly, she talks each one out of eating her by offering up her fancy clothes. In [...]

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Big Boy

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

Little Oli wants to be big enough to go bird hunting with his brother Mbachu but has to take a nap instead.

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