Theme: Nurses

Silent in an Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Cavell

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of duty had transformed the [...]

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

Ransom for a River Dolphin

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Finding a seriously hurt dolphin in the Amazon near her small Colombian village and suspecting her stepfather of having wounded it, Carmenza nurses it back to health and turns to the wise old Indian Omar to appease its spirit.

Descriptors: Colombia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latin America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not tree. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps, so she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how [...]

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

The Roreshadowing

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

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