Theme: hunger

The Mangrove Tree

By Book Importer | Published: June 15, 2011

For a long time, the people of Hargigo, a village in the tiny African country of Eritrea, were living without enough food for themselves and their animals. The families were hungry, and their goats and sheep were hungry too. Then along came a scientist, Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped change their lives for the better. [...]

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Cry of the Giraffe

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

One girl’s harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land — all based on a true story.In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its promises of [...]

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

Hansel and Gretel

By Book Importer | Published: February 22, 2010

This book provides young readers with a new twist on a classic tale as Hansel and Gretel accidentally come across Glut Annie Stout and realize they must find a way to escape from her dangerous home in order to return to their father and his health food store.

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

The Amazing Tree

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

From southwest Tanzania comes this folktale of a time without rain and an amazing tree with ripe fruits that will not fall. The hungry animals decide to ask wise Tortoise how to get these fruits, and little Rabbit offers to find him. They send the big animals instead—first Elephant and Water Buffalo, then Rhino, Giraffe, [...]

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

The Wee Christmas Cabin

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

All her life Oona dreams of having a cabin of her own. Since she has no family, she moves from cabin to cabin, helping wherever there is trouble or need. But when the Great Famine comes and the last of the potatoes is eaten, Oona knows that no one will want another mouth to feed. [...]

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

Wildflower Girl

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Thirteen-year-old Peggy O’Driscoll, left orphaned and homeless by the Great Famine of the 1840s, leaves Ireland to seek her fortune in America.

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Ireland, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Skinny

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Holly’s older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Together, they can feel [...]

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

Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A young boy unites with thousands of other orphaned boys to walk to safety in a refugee camp in another country, after war destroys their villages in southern Sudan. Based on true events. Awards: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books

Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Sudan » Other Themes: , , , , , » 1 Comment

Jacob’s Rescue

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn’t safe to be Jewish anymore.One afternoon, eight-year-old Jacob slipped through a hole in the [...]

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

Kenji and the Magic Geese

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

One of the geese in the beloved picture on Kenji’s wall flies off to join the wild geese in the sky and then returns to the picture, with interesting results.

Descriptors: Asia, Fantasy, Fiction, Japan, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Comments closed