Theme: twin

Troubletwisters

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

When their house mysteriously explodes and they are sent to live with an unknown relative named Grandma X, twelve-year-old twins Jaide and Jack Shield learn that they are troubletwisters, young Wardens just coming into their powers, who must protect humanity from The Evil trying to break into Earth’s dimension.  

Descriptors: Australia, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Blue Mountain Trouble

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

After being saved from a disastrous landslide by an extraordinary goat that blocks their usual way to school, twins Pollyread and Jackson, living with their parents high in the mountains of Jamaica, find the strange goat reappearing at crucial intervals as their day-to-day life is changed by series of mysterious events involving the return of [...]

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

The Book of Jude

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

In 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude’s mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.

Descriptors: Czech Republic, Historical Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Popol Vuh: A Sacred Book of the Maya

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

One of the few Maya documents to survive the Spanish conquest, the Popol Vuh describes the creation of the Maya universe and of humans. It tells the tale of the Hero Twins, who defeated the gods of the underworld in a ball game, and details the legendary history of the Quiche Maya rulers until their [...]

Descriptors: Folklore, Guatemala, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Myth, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He’s after them, [...]

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

Children of the Lamp: The Day of the Djinn Warriors

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Djinn twins John and Philippa are off on another whirlwind adventure that takes them around the globe and into unknown worlds. And it’s a race against time as they attempt to rescue their mother from her fate as the Blue Djinn of Babylon. An aging curse has been placed on their father and if the [...]

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

Always Come Home to Me

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

This is a tale of two children and their parents, and the beloved pet doves that help them to understand one another. Twins Mei-Mei and her brother, DiDi  leave for school each morning with their mother’s words ringing in their ears: Fei, fei—fly little birds,”Fei, fei — fly, fly, little birds, but always come home [...]

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