Material appropriate for intermediate age groups
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy or disguise herself as one. Bangladesh is a country in South Asia surrounded by India.
After leaving his home in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held and interrogated on Angel Island before being allowed to join his merchant father in San Francisco.
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Akimbo goes to the rescue of zoologist who is injured on his father’s game preserve.
A child dealing with loss while trying to find her place in a new home. An author’s note provides context for the plight of the many children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Winter’s approach brings six friends together in Moominvalley where, in the Moomins’ absence, they must visit with each other.
Pursued by enemies of the family she never knew she had, ten-year-old Copper Beach flees to Spindle House and decides to uncover the truth about a feud between the Stone and Wood clans that sent her into exile six years earlier.
When 12-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.
This book describes how special elephants are in the village of Tha Kleng in Thailand and looks at the life of one particular young elephant named Wan Pen.
After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family. Continues The upstairs room.
A description of what life is like in the modern Chinese city of Changsha for the children who live there.