Theme: Love

Halo

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

I Lost My Mobile at the Mall

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Elly Pickering is dreading telling her parents thats shes lost her mobile phone again what with the Global Financial crisis and everything. But losing her mobile is just the beginning. A series of technological happenings and manipulations leads Elly to question her priorities, her friendships, and Will, her fabulous she thought boyfriend. Is she facing [...]

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The Beginner’s Guide to Living

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Seven days after his mother dies in a sudden, senseless accident, seventeen-year-old Will embarks on a search for meaning that leads him to the great philosophers—Plato, Seneca, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche—and to Taryn, the beautiful girl he meets at his mother’s wake. Will is desperate to find, however he can, something authentic, something ultimate, something so true [...]

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Big Wolf and Little Wolf: The Little Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Big Wolf and Little Wolf, The Little Leaf That Wouldn’t Fall is the second book about Big Wolf and Little Wolf. Sweet and humorous, the story is amplified and deepened by Tallec’s illustrations, which are bold in perspective and rich with feeling. The book begins, “High up in a tall tree was a little leaf,” [...]

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Big Wolf and Little Wolf

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Big Wolf has always lived alone at the top of a hill under a tree, so when a little wolf suddenly arrives one day, he does not know what to think.

Descriptors: Awards, Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Fantasy, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus!

By Book Importer | Published: February 10, 2011

Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. But she is spending Christmas with her granny in Canada. She cant wait to see snow for the first time! And how will it feel to be so far from home?

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

Mirror

By Book Importer | Published: February 3, 2011

In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left. See the review at WOW Review, Volume 3, Issue 2

Descriptors: Australia, Early Years (ages 2-6), Oceania, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

A Gift from Childhood:Memories of an African Boyhood

By Book Importer | Published: February 2, 2011

Baba Wagué is only four years old when he is sent to the tiny Malian village of Kassaro to be raised by his paternal grandparents, according to the family tradition. He is most unhappy about this at first, but under his grandmother’s patient and wise tutelage he comes to love his close-knit village community. He [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Awards, Biography, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mali, Nonfiction » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » 2 Comments

A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk

By Book Importer | Published: February 2, 2011

In the little village of Duk Padiet in southern Sudan, a boy named Jacob Deng thrives on the love of his mother, the companionship of his sisters, the excitement of learning how to look after his uncle’s herds of cattle. The year is 1987, and suddenly in the night soldiers from the north invade the [...]

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

Grand

By Book Importer | Published: February 2, 2011

A warm visual essay on the universal relationship between children and their grandparents features photographs from a diverse range of ethnic, cultural and socio-economic regions of the world.

Descriptors: Concept Book, Early Years (ages 2-6), International, Nonfiction, Picture Book » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment