Theme: Refugees and exiles

The Ant And The Astronaut

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

An ant meets an astronaut one day as he is landing back on earth, and the astronaut tells him of his space travels and some stories about the other side of the world.

Descriptors: Europe, Folklore, Primary (ages 6-9), Russia » Other Themes: » Comments closed

Dream Time: New Stories By Sixteen Award-Winning Authors

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

A collection of sixteen short stories, produced by asking authors recognized or awarded by the Australian Book Council to write on the theme of ‘Dream Time.’

Descriptors: Australia, Fiction, Oceania, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Comments closed

White Peak Farm

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

Teenage Jeannie unfolds the triumphs and tragedies of her close-knit family as they face violent changes on their isolated Derbyshire farm.

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

The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920

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

Presents a history of the struggle for political control in Mexico during the years 1910-1920, including biographical sketches of key personalities.

Descriptors: Americas, Biography, Mexico, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , » Comments closed

It Happened At School: Two Tales

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

In the first of two school stories set in France, a homework assignment involving autographs excites Claudette’s class; in the second, the teacher’s boyfriend becomes a nuisance using the class’s new telephone/fax machine to express his love.

Descriptors: Europe, Fiction, France, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: » Comments closed

This Place Is Wild: East Africa

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

Introduces the animals of the Masai Mara of Kenya and Tanzania, including the rhino, elephant, giraffe, cheetah, leopard and lion, and discusses their struggle for survival, the balance of nature, and the ecosystem of East Africa.

Descriptors: Africa, Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: » Comments closed

Behind The Secret Window: A Memoir Of A Hidden Childhood During Ww Ii

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

The autobiographical account of an eight-year-old Jewish girl as she hides from the Nazis in a small bedroom in Lwow, Poland, in 1943 contains twenty-nine examples of her many paintings during that period.

Descriptors: Biography, Europe, Ukraine, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: » Comments closed

Thanks To My Mother

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

After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.

Descriptors: Biography, Europe, Lithuania, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: » Comments closed

The Plague

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

In book two of The Crow Chronicles, a mysterious plague hits the Kinaar family. Sick and alone, Kyp knows only that he must find Kym, who has been captured by humans and taken far to the east.

Descriptors: Americas, Canada, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , » Comments closed

Ssi, Short Story International, Vol. 78

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

Tales by the world’s great contemporary writers, presented unabridged. Bimonthly serial publication.

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