Theme: power

Cleopatra Confesses

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

The last of the pharaohs before the beginning of the Common Era, Cleopatra ascended the throne at age eighteen following the death of her father. Charming as well as smart and ambitious, she made two Roman leaders fall madly in love with her. Her greatest challenge was not her kingdom but her own sisters, blinded [...]

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

The Coven’s Daughter

By Book Importer | Published: May 12, 2011

It’s Spring again in the village of Montacute, and people want nothing more than to celebrate the season with maypole dances, festivals, and visits from the nobility.  The festivities are dampened, though, when a young boy turns up dead outside the village. Then they learn that three other boys have also disappeared lately. To the [...]

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Fury of The Phoenix

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

The Gods have abandoned Ai Ling. Her mysterious power haunts her day and night, and she leaves home—with just the moon as her guide—overwhelmed by her memories and visions and an unbearable sense of dread. For Ai Ling knows that Chen Yong is vulnerable to corrupt enchantments from the under-world. How can she do nothing [...]

Descriptors: Asia, China, Fantasy, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Pablo Neruda

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda. Pablo wrote poems about the things [...]

Descriptors: Americas, Biography, Chile, Primary (ages 6-9) » 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

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

Consumed

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

The thrilling sequel to POSSESSED finds 16-year-old Rayne still entwined in the creepy history of Morton’s Keep — and about to discover that she’s the only one who can stop the evil lurking there. Rayne’s countryside escape has proven to be anything but — the remote mansion house where she lives and works holds terrible [...]

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A Sword In Her Hand

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

A feast of a medieval adventure with a thoroughly modern heroine.As the murmur of prayers fills the icy room, mother and baby seem doomed. When the newborn finally struggles into the world, the Count of Flanders flees in a rage. The child is not the expected male heir — but a girl. Growing up under [...]

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

The Moles and the Mireuk: A Korean Folktale

By Book Importer | Published: February 17, 2011

A mole goes to the sky, sun, clouds, and wind in search of the most powerful husband for his daughter, only to find him among his own kind.

Descriptors: Asia, Folklore, Korea, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Nicholas Dane

By Book Importer | Published: February 15, 2011

When fourteen-year-old Nicholas Dane’s mother dies, social services sends him to a home for boys where intimidation and violence keep order. After a number of fights and brutal punishments, Nick thinks that life can’t possibly get any worse . . . until he realizes that the home’s respected deputy head, who has been grooming him [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Rhymes/songs, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment