Introduces the history and political situation in Cambodia, and presents a variety of young refugees, who describe the reasons why they had to leave, their travels as refugees, and their experiences adjusting to a new country.
Asia
Materials from Asia
Binya’s Blue Umbrella
Binya, a young girl living in rural India, trades her leopard-claw necklace for a dainty blue umbrella, but the local tea shop proprietor wants the umbrella for himself.
Hello Hello
It used to be, we could only write letters, now we can use the telephone! How will we communicate in the future? Young readers will discover the concept of this great invention along with a quick history of this technological advancement.
The Gold-Threaded Dress
When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.
Nine Animals and the Well
A fable about a group of animals that strives to bring the perfect present to the Indian raja-king’s birthday party, and discusses how the numerals we use originated in India.
Basket Weaver And Catches Many Mice
A little grey cat saves the day when Basket Weaver is ordered into a competition to make the perfect basket for the emperor’s newborn daughter.
The Conch Bearer
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home many hundreds of miles away, high in the Himalayan mountains.
Shin’s Tricycle
The true story of a Japanese man whose children’s lives were tragically cut short by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Little Ching And Hu Tzu Guard The Cornfield
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First Apple
The author describes 1940s China and her quest, as a nine-year-old girl, to buy a precious apple for her grandmother’s birthday. By the author of A Day on a Shrimp Boat.