Theme: new life

A Proper Place

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

The fourth in the very successful series about Kevin (a Catholic) and Sadie (a Protestant) who meet (The Twelfth Day of July), grow up and fall in love (Across the Barricades) and leave Belfast to marry and find some peace (Into Exile). A Proper Place finds them still in Liverpool, with a two-room flat and baby Brendan, and [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Northern Ireland (UK), Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: » Leave a comment

The Bite of the Mango

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

The astounding story of one girl’s journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative.As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry.But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Nonfiction, Sierra Leone, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , » 6 Comments

The Great Escape from City Zoo

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

An anteater, an elephant, a turtle, and a flamingo break out of City Zoo and, disguised as people, try to make a life for themselves on the outside.

Descriptors: Australia, Early Years (ages 2-6), Fantasy, Infant/toddler (ages 0-2), Oceania » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Lost Boy, Lost Girl

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There’s warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting [...]

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

One More River

By Book Importer | Published: May 24, 2010

Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and live a more fully Jewish life,Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she [...]

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

The Boy from over There

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Avramik, a young Holocaust survivor, has difficulties adjusting to life on a kibbutz in the days before the first Arab-Israeli War.

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Israel, Palestine, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Against the Storm

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

When Mehmet and his family leave their small Turkish village to seek a better life in Ankara, they find themselves living in poverty, but an encounter with a streetwise orphan and his own determination give Mehmet the courage to find a way out.

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

The Lady with the Hat

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Yulek, a seventeen-year-old Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war’s end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a sad and beautiful Jewish girl named Theresa. Saved from the Nazis by Catholic nuns, Theresa, like Yulek, is uncertain about her place in the postwar world. Together they struggle [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Germany, Historical Fiction, Israel, Palestine, Poland, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Melkorka is a princess, the first daughter of a magnificent kingdom in mediæval Ireland, but all of this is lost the day she is kidnapped and taken aboard a marauding slave ship. Thrown into a world that she has never known, alongside people that her former country’s laws regarded as less than human, Melkorka is [...]

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

The Arrival

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He’s embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life – he’s leaving home to build a better future for his family. Shaun Tan evokes universal aspects of an immigrant’s experience through a singular work [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Picture Book » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » 3 Comments