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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.
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.
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.
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.
The mischievous Monkey King attempts to achieve immortality the easy way, gains god-like powers, and wreaks havoc in heaven.
Although her father assures her that the herd takes care of its members and her grandmother reminds her of mountain spirits’ watchfulness, Anna worries while her pony is in the summer pasture.
Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Denmark.
Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus performer, and several orphans.
A humorous and satirical look at Canadian history.
A unique photographic essay captures the world of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy whose family emigrated from the former Soviet Union in search of religious freedom.