Theme: oppression

Touching Snow

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

‘”The best way to avoid being picked on by high school bullies is to kill someone.\”Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal — again. She\’d like this [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Haiti, Realistic Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

The Lost Island of Tamarind (The Book of Tamarind)

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Maya Nelson isn’t your typical thirteen-year-old. She’s spent her whole life living on the sea with her marine biologist parents, her younger brother, Simon, and baby sister, Penny. Maya used to love living on a sailboat, but lately, everything feels terribly claustrophobic. Maya longs to go to school on land. To make friends. To lead [...]

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

Tonight, by Sea

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Seek life. Chache Lavi. That’s what Paulie’s uncle says they must do. But to seek life, Paulie and her family have to leave Haiti-the only home that Paulie has ever known. Since forever, Paulie has run in and out of the little houses nestled under the palms, smelling cocoa-bread and playing on the beach with [...]

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

Freedom Child of the Sea

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A young man, swimming off the shore of a Caribbean island, is saved from drowning by a mysterious boy who appears from the depths. His body is scarred, yet his face is beautiful, and he leaps and swims as joyously as the dolphins. When the young man tells this to a passing stranger, he in [...]

Descriptors: Caribbean, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Composition

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In a village in Chile, Pedro and Daniel are two typical nine-year-old boys. Up until Daniel’s father gets arrested, their biggest worry had been how to improve their soccer skills. Now, they are thrust into a situation where they must grapple with the incomprehensible: dictatorship and its inherent abuses. This sensitively realized story touches a [...]

Descriptors: Chile, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latin America, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Teenage Refugees from Haiti Speak Out (In Their Own Voices)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

These books begin with historical overviews of Haiti, including the reasons for recent political unrest. The first-person narratives of young refugees follow. All of the teens tell why they left their native countries, how they made their journeys, their experiences and difficulties in North America, and if they plan to return to their homelands. The [...]

Descriptors: Americas, Caribbean, Haiti, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Journey for Peace: The Story of Rigoberta Menchu (Rainbow Biography)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, Rigoberta Menchuis a poor, uneducated Mayan woman who has helped her native people fight oppression in Guatemala and who has told the world about their suffering. Part of the Rainbow Biography series, the account is quiet, but it tells of violence and poverty and amazing courage. Beginning [...]

Descriptors: Guatemala, Latin America, Nonfiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Teenage Refugees from Nicaragua Speak Out (In Their Own Voices)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This book begin with historical overview of Nicaragua, including the reasons for recent political unrest. The first-person narratives of young refugees follow. All of the teens tell why they left their native countries, how they made their journeys, their experiences and difficulties in North America, and if they plan to return to their homelands. The [...]

Descriptors: Latin America, Nonfiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » 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

Child of Dandelions

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The river of jubilant people alarmed Sabine as they bobbed along Allidina Visram Street in Kampala….The dark faces drew closer. Women in bright gomesi and headscarves danced, and bare-chested men punched their fists into the air, chanting, “Muhindi, nenda nyumbani! Indian go home.”Sabine felt she was drowning in their cries.In August 1972, President Idi Amin [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Uganda, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , » 1 Comment