Theme: oppression

The Other Half of Life

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

A heartbreaking novel based on the true story of a World War II voyage.In May of 1939, the SS St. Francis sets sail from Germany, carrying German Jews and other refugees away from Hitler’s regime. The passengers believe they are bound for freedom in Cuba and eventually the United States, but not all of them [...]

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

The Lost Boys of Sudan

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

This book presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to wars in Sudan and the orphaned refugees known as the ‘Lost Boys’.

Descriptors: Africa, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Sudan, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Khmer Rouge

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

This book presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the atrocities committed in Cambodia’s “killing fields” by the Khmer Rouge”.

Descriptors: Asia, Cambodia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

The Queen of Water

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

Born in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her large family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her village of indígenas, it is not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or to be called a longa tonta—stupid Indian—by members of the ruling class of mestizos, or Spanish [...]

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

Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

This is the only biography for children about the remarkable Holocaust heroine Irena Sendler, who smuggled over 400 schildren out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Descriptors: Biography, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Picture Book, Poland, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Terezin

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezin explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a “show” [...]

Descriptors: Czech Republic, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Anya’s War

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, and war breaks out with Japan. Based on the author’s family history.

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

Waiting For The Rain (Laurel Leaf Books)

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

Tengo is the 10-year-old son of workers on Oom Koos’s large farm in the Transvaal. He longs to go to school like his friend Frikkie, who visits his uncle’s farm on holidays. But Tengo’s family is too poor to pay for the education that comes free to whites. He finally gets his wish at age [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, South Africa » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Scribbling Women

By Book Importer | Published: April 28, 2011

In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher, complaining about the irritating fad of “scribbling women.” Whether they were written by professionals, by women who simply wanted to connect with others, or by those who wanted to leave a record of their lives, those “scribbles” are fascinating, informative, and instructive.Margaret Catchpole was a transported prisoner [...]

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

Words In The Dust

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

In the tradition of SHABANU, DAUGHTER OF THE WIND and THE BREADWINNER, a beautiful debut about a daughter of Afghanistan discovering new friends and opportunities after the defeat of the Taliban.Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day [...]

Descriptors: Afghanistan, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment