Theme: plantation

From Another World

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Martin and his friends are helping their parents turn an old Brazilian coffee plantation into an inn. The children have a fun time helping to renovate the old place and they sleep in a shed that is being converted into a guest room. But one night they hear the sound of a young girl crying. [...]

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

Ring of the Slave Prince

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Tom O’Connor, a poor, adventurous boy lives with his mother and half sister at a tavern on the island of Nevis in 1639. He rescues a slave from drowning, learns he is prince, loses him, travels the Southern Hemisphere in search of him, and finally brings him home to Cape Verde, hoping for a grand [...]

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

Copper Sun

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

Two fifteen-year-old girls — one a slave and the other an indentured servant — escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

Descriptors: Americas, Historical Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , » 1 Comment

Doctor on an Elephant

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

Riding elephants, crossing flooded rivers, outrunning rogues, and avoiding tigers are not the things that most doctors face in an average workday, but then they don’t work in the province of Bengal. Dr. John Symington did. As the doctor for several tea plantations in a wild region along India’s northeastern border in the early part [...]

Descriptors: Asia, Biography, India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Comments closed