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Phone: (520) 621-9340
email: wow@email.arizona.edu
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Kit’s Wilderness

In Stoneygate there was a wilderness where the ancient coal pit had once been. Here Kit met Askew, who has a strange ability to draw other children to his game called Death. When Askew disappears, it is up to Kit to find him and bring him back.

Published: 1999,
Tags: Customs and practices
Categories: England (UK)England (UK), EuropeEngland (UK), Europe, FantasyEngland (UK), Europe, Fantasy, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Friends Of The Heart: Amici Del Cuore

During a summer at her grandparents’ Italian seaside home, thirteen-year-old Lucrezia faces a changing relationship with her best friend Oliver and great personal tragedy.

Published: 2005,
Tags: Runaways
Categories: EuropeEurope, FictionEurope, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Italy

A Pipkin Of Pepper

While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but Duck stops to look at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.

Published: 2004,
Categories: Counting BookCounting Book, England (UK)Counting Book, England (UK), EuropeCounting Book, England (UK), Europe, FictionCounting Book, England (UK), Europe, Fiction, Primary (ages 6-9)

Space Dogs

Commanders Belka and Strelka, of the planet Gersbach, board their dog-shaped vehicle and head for earth, where they attempt to capture two power-seeking renegades and hope to save their own planet from destruction.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Uncles
Categories: AustraliaAustralia, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Australia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), OceaniaAustralia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Oceania, Science Fiction

The Ruby In The Smoke

Sally Lockhart takes a terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues that will solve the puzzle of her father’s death.

Published: 1985,
Tags: 19th Century, Orphans, Photography
Categories: England (UK)England (UK), EuropeEngland (UK), Europe, Historical FictionEngland (UK), Europe, Historical Fiction, Mystery and ThrillerEngland (UK), Europe, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Tano and Binti: Two Chimpanzees Return to the Wild

This book describes the experiences of two young chimpanzees that were raised in the London Zoo and then released in Gambia, where an older chimpanzee helped them learn to survive in the wild.

Published: 1994,
Tags: Chimpanzees, conservation
Categories: AfricaAfrica, GambiaAfrica, Gambia, NonfictionAfrica, Gambia, Nonfiction, Picture BookAfrica, Gambia, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)

The Bullock

In the Haryana plains of India, an old man and his wife barely make a living selling vegetables. Their only possession, a strong, beautiful bullock, pulls a cart with the vegetables along a busy and dangerous road to the market and back again.

Published: 1965,
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, IndiaAsia, Fiction, India, Primary (ages 6-9)

The Wishing Of Biddy Malone

In Ireland, a young girl who cannot sing, dance, or control her temper stumbles across a faerie village, where a beautiful boy asks her to name her three wishes–but does not promise to grant them for her.

Published: 2004,
Tags: Family life, Fishing
Categories: EuropeEurope, FictionEurope, Fiction, IrelandEurope, Fiction, Ireland, Primary (ages 6-9)

The Ruins Of Gorlan

When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.

Published: 2005,
Tags: Loyalty
Categories: AustraliaAustralia, FantasyAustralia, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Australia, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Oceania

Nory Ryan’s Song

NoryRyanWhen a terrible blight attacks Ireland’s potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan’s courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.

Published: 2000, San Val
Tags: Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, Jews in the Netherlands
Categories: EuropeEurope, Historical FictionEurope, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Europe, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Ireland

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