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.
Fiction
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Leaving Jetty Road
New boyfriends, worries about final exams and the future, and a possible eating disorder transform best friends Nat, Lise, and Sofia during their last year at a private high school in South Australia.
Breath Of The Dragon
A five-year-old Thai girl, Malili waits in vain for her mother–who has gone to America to make a new life–to send for her and finds solace in her passion for drawing and love for her grandmother.
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.
Inkheart
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can ‘read’ fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Ak
When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn fictional African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life.
One Round Moon And A Star For Me
A young boy of rural Lesotho needs reassurance that his father is still his papa, too, when a new baby is born into the family.
My Daddy Is a Giant
A little boy’s father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father’s hair.
The Weight Of The Sky
A sixteen-year-old girl travels to Israel to spend the summer on a kibbutz and discovers who she is and what she wants out of life.
Grandfather’s Dream
After the end of the war in Vietnam, a young boy’s grandfather dreams of restoring the wetlands of the Mekong delta, hoping that the large cranes that once lived there will return.