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Genre: Historical Fiction
The Firefly Letters
A stunning novel in verse by a Newbery Honor-winning author paints a portrait of early women’s right pioneer Frederika Bremer and the journey to Cuba that transformed her life.
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Cuba, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: cultures, Gender, injustices, journeys, languages, oppression, Slaves, Women's rights Leave a comment
Morning Girl
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl’s last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Themes: Bahamas, Christopher Columbus, cultures, encounters, journeys, Life Styles, respect, sibling's relationship, Tainos, traditions Leave a comment
One More River
Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and live a more fully Jewish life,Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she [...]
Other Descriptors: Canada, Israel, Palestine, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: adaptability, adjustment, Arab-Israeli conflict, Emigration and immigration, Friendship, Jew, Middle East, new life Leave a comment
Bog Child
DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in [...]
Other Descriptors: Ireland, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: archaeology, Iron Age, Love, Terrorism Leave a comment
The Dragonfly Pool
A beloved New York Times bestselling author returns to paper! At first Tally doesn’t want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But soon she discovers that it’s a wonderful place, where freedom and selfexpression are valued. Enamored of Bergania, a erene and peaceful country led by a noble king, Tally organizes a dance [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: boarding schools, freedoms, friendships, journeys, self-expression Leave a comment
Medina Hill
In the grimy London of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has lost his voice. His mother is sick and his father’s unemployed. Rescue comes in the form of his Uncle Roo, who arrives to take him and his young sister, Marlo, to Cornwall. There, in a boarding house populated by eccentric residents, Marlo, who keeps a [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: actions, freedom, friendships, justices, silences, voices, War Leave a comment
The Brothers Story
Teenage twins Kit and Christy have grown up amid grinding poverty in their Essex village. As Christy has been “simple” from birth, Kit is literally his brother’s keeper. But the latest hardships visited upon their country home by the Great Frost of 1683–84 bring Kit to frustration and despair, and he abandons Christy to make [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: abandons, balance, brothers love, decisions, Family, freedom, journeys, poverty and despair, unemployment Leave a comment
Rebel!
When the General marches into Burma to take over, one student is brave enough to rebel.
Other Descriptors: Primary (Gr. K-3), Union of Myanmar Themes: Burma, Courage, Rangoon, School, tyranny Leave a comment
On October 20, 2010 at 7:00 P.M., Rosemary Wells, illustrator and author of the preschool series Max and Ruby, will be at Worlds of Words physical location on the 4th floor of the College of Education at the University of Arizona.
El pececito mágico (Alfaguara Infantil Y Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)