Theme: violence

Iboy

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.

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Across the Barricades

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

Kevin is Catholic. Sadie is Protestant. In Belfast they are supposed to be enemies – so what chance do they have when they fall in love?
Kevin and Sadie both know their relationship is dangerous. In these terrifying times in Belfast no Catholic boy and Protestant girl go out together without resentment and even violence flaring [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Northern Ireland (UK), Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Twelfth Day of July

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic – and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a dare – kids fooling around – but soon becomes something dangerous. Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin’s life forever. But will the world around them change too?

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Second Fiddle

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

The author of Heart of a Shepherd offers another sensitive portrayal of military families, this time stationed abroad, in the city of Berlin at that historic time just after the Wall came down.When 13-year-old Jody and her friends save a badly beaten Russian soldier from drowning, they put into motion a chain of events that [...]

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Out of Shadows

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

A debut novel set in the early 1980s at a boy’s boarding school in the newly formed country of Zimbabwe.

Descriptors: Africa, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18), Zimbabwe » 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

A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk

By Book Importer | Published: February 2, 2011

In the little village of Duk Padiet in southern Sudan, a boy named Jacob Deng thrives on the love of his mother, the companionship of his sisters, the excitement of learning how to look after his uncle’s herds of cattle. The year is 1987, and suddenly in the night soldiers from the north invade the [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Awards, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Sudan » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » 1 Comment

Thunder Over Kandahar

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

A powerful novel of enduring friendship set amid the terror and chaos of present-day Afghanistan.Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school and threatens the teacher and students [...]

Descriptors: Afghanistan, Awards, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , , » 1 Comment

Too Late/Train Wreck

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Some mistakes can never be repaired. The narrator of Train Wreck is looking back at the year she was 15 . . . She is in love with a bad boy named Johnny. Johnny’s friends play a cruel trick on a misfit named Suzy by convincing her that Johnny is attracted to her. When the [...]

Descriptors: Americas, Canada, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.What is war like through the eyes of [...]

Descriptors: Biography, Sierra Leone, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » 2 Comments