Theme: Love

Time to Say I Love You

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

In this sweet, touching story, a mother tries to choose a time to tell her little girl how much she loves her. Over the course of a beautiful day at the seaside, the two roam over sandy beaches and grassy hills as the mother searches for just the right time and spot.

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I Love You, Little Monkey

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Little Monkey is being naughty. So Big Monkey gets very angry and Little Monkey ends up very sad.But even though Big Monkey doesn’t always like the naughty things Little Monkey does, one thing is clear:Big Monkey loves Little Monkey. Always.

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Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Nelly Sue Edelmeister knows exactly who she is: a skinny, brainy thirteen-year-old Berlin schoolgirl. But that’s before she develops a hopeless crush on a certain British royal. And it’s definitely before she meets the oddly attractive Maximilian Minsky, her last hope for making the basketball team before it heads off to England and she is [...]

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The Lion Hunter (The Mark Of Solomon)

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

It is the sixth century in Aksum, Africa. Young Telemakos—King Arthur’s half-Ethiopian grandson—is still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the far desert, trying to learn who was breaking the Emperor’s plague quarantine. Before he is fully himself again, tragedy and menace strike, and he finds himself sent, with his baby sister, [...]

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

The Falconer’s Knot : A Story of Friars, Flirtation and Foul Play

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

Descriptors: Europe, Historical Fiction, Italy, Mystery, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , » Comments closed

Cyrano

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

A shamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.

Descriptors: Database, England (UK), Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , » Comments closed

You and Me Together: Moms, Dads, and Kids Around The World

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

From a festival in India to a bus in Germany, from a park in China to a campfire in Australia, loving moms, dads, and kids share their lives.

Descriptors: Concept Book, Early Years (ages 2-6), International » Other Themes: , , , » Comments closed

The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East

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

In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and elsewhere open windows into the hearts and souls of people we usually meet only on the nightly news. What [...]

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

Fish for the Grand Lady

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

In Trinidad, two brothers try fishing in a new place, hoping to bring home a big catch for their grandmother.

Descriptors: Americas, Fiction, Primary (ages 6-9), Trinidad and Tobago » Other Themes: , , , , , » Comments closed

My Daddy Is a Giant

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

A little boy’s father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father’s hair.

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