Young people describe the different kinds of homes they live in around the world and how they see the stars. Eight children–from the Philippines, Ghana, Japan, the American Southwest, Brazil, Alaska, Mongolia, and Nepal–share stories of the stars that they can see from their homelands.
Age
Catalog sorted by age group
The Journey Back
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.
The Train To Glasgow
A rhyme in the style of ‘The House That Jack Built’, describing the antics that occur when some chickens get loose on a train bound for Glasgow.
Welcome To Zanzibar Road
After moving into the house on Zanzibar Road that her neighbors helped her build, Mama Jumbo decides to share it with Little Chico.
Understanding The Holy Land
Complete with maps and photographs, a guide provides a comprehensive review of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a review of the area’s history, its people, significant past and present events, and definitions of commonly used terms.
Jafta: The Homecoming
A young black South African boy describes his feelings about his father’s return from working in the city.
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.
So Sings The Blue Deer
Thirteen-year-old Moon Feather is chosen to join a dangerous pilgrimage to Mexico City to pick up live white-tailed deer, to be used to reestablish the natural population on Huichol land in the mountains.
The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale With Hieroglyphs
A tale, based on a story found in ancient papyrus scrolls, about a shipwrecked sailor who finds fortune when he is befriended by a serpent that is the Prince of the magical island of Punt.
Jumpman: Rule #1: Don’t Touch Anything
When a defective time-jumping device strands Theodore, a teen from the distant future, in the twenty-first century, he is helped by two high schoolers–Jules, who is having time problems of his own, and Gen, an old friend Jules was about to ask out.