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.
Fiction
Fiction genre
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.
In Ned’s Head
Eleven-year-old Ned, who prefers the name Treb, uses his diary to record his wild thoughts about romance, school, and the rest of his eventful life.
Ganesh
Uprooted from his home in India by a tragedy, Ganesh begins a new life in the Midwest where his experiences with Hinduism, Yoga, and mantras are considered alien.