On a camping trip in an Australian rain forest with his father, a young boy thinks about the history of the plant and animal life around him and wonders about their future.
Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction genre
Darkness Be My Friend
Airlifted out of their own country to the safe haven of New Zealand after an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers who plan an attack on the airfield. Fourth in the Tomorrow series.
La La Rose
La La Rose, a young girl’s stuffed rabbit, gets lost in Luxembourg Gardens.
Heart of Mine: A Story of Adoption
This book offers young readers a gentle story about adoption as two parents explain how their darling daughter, Tu Thi, came into their lives from a country so very far away.
All the Magic in the World
The children who play in the street laugh at the odd-job man Joseph for picking up string and other junk, until he shows them that magic can be found in even the simplest of things.
Jafta: The Homecoming
A young black South African boy describes his feelings about his father’s return from working in the city.
Habibi
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud and her family move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
Featured in WOW Review Volume XII, Issue 1
One Night: A Story from the Desert
Muhamad, a young Tuareg boy, sets out to prove himself by caring for his father’s goats alone overnight in the desert and finds his night enlived by a pregnant goat about to give birth, in a poetic look at the lives of the Tuareg people of the Sahara.
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.
Desert December
A South African boy makes a long journey through the desert to join his parents in a mining village, reaching them on Christmas Day and seeing his new baby sister.