Theme: responsibility

Welcome To Silver Street Farm

By Book Importer | Published: May 2, 2012

What are three city friends to do when a couple of newly adopted baby poodles turn out to be rotten hatch into ducklings?  For Gemma, Meera, and Karl, the answer’s easy– turn the abandoned train station into a city farm!  Throw in a friendly policeman, a chicken-herding dog, and a pair of runaway goats, and [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Singing Hat

By Book Importer | Published: February 28, 2012

Colin Jenkins must choose between keeping a bird nest and his job.

Descriptors: Australia, Fiction, Oceania, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

No Way Subway

By Book Importer | Published: February 23, 2011

A little boy and his older sister ride a subway to go to their grandparents’ house on their own for the first time. The big sister feels responsible, yet her brother doesn’t listen to her.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Korea, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Dog

By Book Importer | Published: February 15, 2011

Rescued from certain death by a kindly dog at the city dump, an abandoned puppy grows up fending for himself until he finds a home with a willful little girl. Could she be the mistress of his dreams?

Descriptors: Europe, Fantasy, France, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Not Me!

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Not one member of a group of friends admits to having made a big mess, or offers to pitch in to clean it up.

Descriptors: Concept Book, Early Years (ages 2-6), England (UK), Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Buddha’s Diamonds

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

After a storm engulfs his village, a Vietnamese boy has glimmers of a new calling in this spare middle-grade novel written with authenticity and grace.Every day, Tinh heads out to sea with his father to catch fish for their family and the market. While he sometimes misses flying kites with other children on the beach, Tinh is [...]

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

The Traitors’ Gate

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.

Descriptors: England (UK), Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mystery » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

One Night: A Story from the Desert

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

Muhamad, a young Tuareg boy, sets out to prove himself by caring for his father’s goats alone overnight in the desert and finds his night enlived by a pregnant goat about to give birth, in a poetic look at the lives of the Tuareg people of the Sudan.

Descriptors: Africa, Niger, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Comments closed