This book portrays a gritty game of street basketball being played literally around the world, from New York to Australia to China, and elsewhere, and then back to New York.
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Sardine In Outer Space
In the goofy space adventures of a little girl called Sardine, encounters aren’t always friendly: weird creatures, cosmic squids, masters of the universe, talking clouds, and evil beings abound.
Something Is Not Quite Right!
One morning, Lisa wakes up and thinks: Something is not quite right. But what is it? All around her, in the kitchen, at the market, wherever she goes, things are out of place: A snowman in the oven, a tree with blue leaves, a boat driving down the street. But Lisa is too busy trying to figure out what is wrong to notice.
Lucky
Lucky tells how he has food, shelter, friends, and a bed, but he is missing an owner, even though he helps his pals in the shelter find homes.
Happy Birthday Coco
Coco is a charming female wirehair fox terrier. This story is told from her owner’s perspective and illustrates her first year of life.
Pancake Dreams
Stefan loves the way his grandmother makes pancakes, but she lives far from him. One day he has an idea on how to get some of his favorite treats.
Shi Er Sheng Xiao De Gu Shi
Written in Chinese. A story of the zodiac, adapted from a Chinese folklore.
Boori
It traces the early years of an Australian Aboriginal boy as he grows to be both a hero of the People and a skilled magician. Scott’s tale is enhanced by his use of real locations in Northern Australia.
The Blood Stone
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, stopping in India to raise the ransom by selling his father’s beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan.
Katarina
During World War II in Slovakia, a young Jewish girl in hiding becomes a devout Catholic and is sustained by her belief that she will return home to her family as soon as the war ends.