Introduces the variety and richness of culture in India by describing the daily lives of children from different regions and social levels.
Intermediate (ages 9-14)
Material appropriate for intermediate age groups
Dreamspeaker
A troubled eleven-year-old boy escapes from an institution to the forests of British Columbia, where he finds sanctuary with a Native American shaman who shows him that he is capable of learning and can control his violence.
Sing For Your Father, Su Phan
Recalls the events in a North Vietnamese village that forever changed the lives of the youngest daughter of a prosperous trader and her family.
Aldabra, Or, The Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare
In Venice, Italy, ten-year-old Elisa finds she must deal with all the unexpected consequences of her beloved eccentric grandmother’s transformation into a giant Aldabra tortoise, native to a small group of coral islands in the Seychelles.
Hana’s Suitcase
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana’s suitcase was sent to her.
If You Could Be My Friend: Letters Of Mervet Akram Sha’ban and Galit Fink
Contains the correspondence between two girls, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, from 1988 until their meeting in 1991 and includes a brief history of their two peoples. First translated by Ariane Elbaz (Hebr.) and Beatrice Khadige (Arab.).
An Ancient Heritage: The Arab-American Minority
Discusses the cultural experience of Arab Americans and the history of Arab immigration to the United States.
Behind The Border
Brief episodes from a childhood spent in the Soviet Union in the 1960s reveal what life could be like behind the old Iron Curtain.
World Faiths: Judaism
Describes features and beliefs of the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, including the Ark of the Covenant, synagogue worship, and Passover.
Old John
Things are never quite the same after Jacob and Laura’s lovable but idiosyncratic grandfather moves in.