Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.
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Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?
In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.
The Upstairs Room
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer’s house during World War II. Continued by the author’s The journey back.
Habibi
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud and her family move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up In Siberia
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the next five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
Infernal Devices
In the distant future, fifteen-year-old Wren steals the fabled Tin Book of Anchorage for the Lost Boys, setting off a sequence of events that leads her parents back into battle with old enemies and new. Book 3 of The hungry city chronicles.
The Maestro
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man’s life forever.
Stories Of The Caliphs: The Rulers Of Islam
This collection of stories concerns the lives of the early Muslim leaders, known as Caliphs or successors to the Prophet, who ruled from Medina, then Damascus, and later from Baghdad, over an empire that included a large part of the world.
The Letters
In Japan, the death of her former landlady triggers a young woman’s memories about her father’s death when she was six years old, and the special way the old lady helped her to cope with the loss.
Forest Of The Clouded Leopard
The death of his grandfather forces a fifteen-year-old Iban boy to face the conflict between the traditions and beliefs of his tribe and the modern ways he has learned at a Western-style boarding school.