An illustrated biography of Ling Rinpoche, the young Buddhist monk who will be the next leader of the Tibetan people.
Intermediate (ages 9-14)
Material appropriate for intermediate age groups
A Tale of Tulips, A Tale of Onions
Amid the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland, gardener Ed Vard Grooter’s love of tulips and sea captain Drooter Van Zooter’s love of onions almost bring them to blows.
The Crow-Girl: The Children Of Crow Cove
After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house by the cove and begins a journey which leads her to people and experiences that exemplify the wisdom her grandmother had shared with her.
I, Juan De Pareja
Although Juan is a slave, a friendship develops between him and his benevolent master, the great Spanish artist Velazques, who secretly teaches him to paint.
The Lost Boys Of Natinga: A School For Sudan’s Young Refugees
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The Door To Time
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The Middle Of Somewhere: A Story Of South Africa
Nine-year-old Rebecca and her family, living in a South African village for black people, are threatened with forced removal to a bleak, distant development, to make room for a new suburb for whites.
So Far From The Bamboo Grove
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko, a young Japanese girl who has lived all her life with her family in northern Korea, escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
Iqbal
When Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, he changes everything for the other overworked and abused children there. Iqbal explains that despite their master’s promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinitely. Iqbal also inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil…and is brave enough to show them how to get there.
This fictionalized account of the real Iqbal Masih is told through the voice of Fatima, a young Pakistani girl whose life is changed by Iqbal’s courage.
Take a closer look at Iqbal as examined in WOW Review.