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Phone: (520) 621-9340
email: wow@email.arizona.edu
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Bringing Asha Home

Eight-year-old Arun waits impatiently while international adoption paperwork is completed so that he can meet his new baby sister from India.

Take a closer look at Bringing Asha Home as examined in WOW Review.

Published: 2006, Lee & Low Books, Inc.
Tags: Adoption, Babies, East Indian Americans
Categories: AsiaAsia, IndiaAsia, India, Primary (ages 6-9)Asia, India, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

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Beauty and the Beastly Children

After the love of Beauty turns him from a Beast into a handsome prince, Auguste fails to reform the bad habits of his past and sees the spell passed on to his three sons.

Published: 1993,
Tags: beast, Fairy Tales, spell, transformation
Categories: EuropeEurope, Folklore and Fairy TalesEurope, Folklore and Fairy Tales, FranceEurope, Folklore and Fairy Tales, France, Picture BookEurope, Folklore and Fairy Tales, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)

Younguncle Comes to Town

In a small town in northern India, three siblings await their father’s youngest brother, Younguncle, who is said to be somewhat eccentric.

Published: 2006,
Tags: confidence, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Family, Magic, Uncles
Categories: AsiaAsia, IndiaAsia, India, Primary (ages 6-9)Asia, India, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

Traitor

During the closing months of World War II, a fifteen-year-old German girl must decide whether or not to help an escaped Russian prisoner of war, despite the serious consequences if she does so.

See the review at WOW Review, Volume 3, Issue 4

Published: 2006,
Tags: Germany, World War II
Categories: EuropeEurope, GermanyEurope, Germany, Historical FictionEurope, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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Dog Boy

Given to the Great Fater on the night of his birth, Boy is reared by a dog in a village whose people barely tolerate him, despite signs that he is favored, then travels far, striving to find his rightful place in the brutal world of humans.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Droughts, Self-esteem, Travel, Villages
Categories: AustraliaAustralia, FictionAustralia, Fiction, OceaniaAustralia, Fiction, Oceania, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Tanglewreck

Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper–a clock that controls time–and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.

Published: 2006,
Tags: time, Time travel
Categories: England (UK)England (UK), EuropeEngland (UK), Europe, Science FictionEngland (UK), Europe, Science Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Clay

The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy’s supernatural powers.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Friendship, Horror, Supernatural
Categories: England (UK)England (UK), EuropeEngland (UK), Europe, FictionEngland (UK), Europe, Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

The Happiness of Kati

With the impending death of her mother, Kati, a young Thai girl, completes the puzzle of her past and discovers the reason that her mother gave her up as a baby.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Disability, mothers
Categories: AsiaAsia, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic FictionAsia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Thailand

Something Invisible

With a new baby sister and a stepfather, the life of eleven-year-old Jake is full of change, but nothing prepares him for his relationship with an enigmatic girl, her large family, and the tragedy that strikes them all.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Family, Family life
Categories: EuropeEurope, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Europe, Intermediate (ages 9-14), IrelandEurope, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Ireland, Realistic Fiction

Kampung Boy

Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Childhood, Family life, Muslims, plantation, Rural life
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), MalaysiaAsia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Malaysia, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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