A young German girl watches as the streets of her town fill with soldiers and tanks. Then, one day, she follows a truck into the woods and discovers a secret.
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Margrit’s World War Ii
In 1943, five-year-old Margrit was separated from her mother, father, and siblings and sent to a farm in Bavaria to escape the bombing in the big city of Hamburg.
Boori
It traces the early years of an Australian Aboriginal boy as he grows to be both a hero of the People and a skilled magician. Scott’s tale is enhanced by his use of real locations in Northern Australia.
The Blood Stone
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, stopping in India to raise the ransom by selling his father’s beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan.
Shadow In The North
In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.
Escape From Botany Bay: The True Story Of Mary Bryant
In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat.
The Water Mirror
In a place similar to Venice, Italy, two teenaged orphans, apprenticed to a maker of magic mirrors, begin to realize that their fates are tied to the magical protector of the city known as the Flowing Queen and to the ruler of Hell, respectively.
Samurai Shortstop
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
Susanna’s Quill
This novel is based on the writer and pioneer Susanna Strickland Moodie, from her life as a young girl in England to her adventures as an adult frontierswoman in Canada.
Kobzar’s Children: A Century Of Stories By Ukrainians
An anthology of stories and poems that chronicle the lives and struggles of Ukrainian immigrants during the past century.