Depicts the history and culture of the Hmong, a unique ethnic group living in Southeast Asia, and describes the experiences of a Hmong family who left Laos to rebuild their lives in America. Includes a Hmong folktale.
Author: Kathy G. Short
Hoang Anh: A Vietnamese-American Boy
In a photographic study of the immigrant experience in action today, a Vietnamese-American boy explains how he successfully lives astride two cultures, American and Vietnamese.
The Witch’s Face: A Mexican Tale
Don Aurelio falls in love with a witch who has a beautiful face but fails to heed her special instructions.
Hilde And Eli, Children Of The Holocaust
Providing a look at the pain and horror of the Holocaust, an illustrated book presents the story of two Jewish children–a German girl and Czechoslovakian boy–who were victims of Nazi rule.
Hiding From The Nazis
The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was separated from her parents and placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis.
Squash It!
After the king of Spain is bitten by a louse, he proclaims that it cannot be killed as it now has royal blood, and when the louse dies, he has it made it into a guitar and has a contest, making others guess what his unique guitar is made of.
The Roses in My Carpets
When a young boy and his mother and sister come to a refugee camp to escape the war in Afghanistan, he finds some comfort in the beauty of the carpets he is learning weave.
Dogboy
In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master to France, where he must fend for himself when both his master and their dogs are lost in a decisive battle.
The Cat With The Yellow Star: Coming Of Age In Terezin
A little cat pinned with a star, a Nazi concentration camp and an opera production–this is the story of Ela Weissberger’s coming of age in Terezin and the adults who helped the children to survive there.
The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa
In the Ethiopian mountain village of Lalibela, famous for its churches and honey, a young girl determines to find a way to be a beekeeper despite being told that is something only men can do.