In the journal her fifth-year teacher requires, Jillian records the ups and downs of her efforts to become popular as she hosts a class party, creates a school magazine, and tutors some socially misfit boys.
Family life
Rickshaw Girl
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy or disguise herself as one. Bangladesh is a country in South Asia surrounded by India.
The Key to My Heart
After Jonathan’s dad loses his keys, they retrace all of their steps throughout the day, from the post office to the playground, and all of the places in between.
Going for Oysters
An Australian aborigine family spends the weekend fishing and looking for oysters and they almost forget their grandfather’s warning about the dangers of the eastern swamp.
Search For The Golden Moon Bear: Science And Adventure In The Asian Tropic
Introduces the research involved in tracking and studying a previously unknown species of bear in Southeast Asia as a scientist and her assistant go into the jungle and visit remote villages to learn about this newly discovered animal.
Singing Shijimi Clams
ake one older, not-so-wicked-anymore witch, add a slightly grumpy cat, and one large bucket of singing shijimi clams, and what you do NOT end up with, (no matter how hungry you are), is miso soup with clams.
Border Crossings: Emigration And Exile
A collection of fiction, non-fiction, and photo essays provides an international look at emigration and the mixed emotions caused by leaving one’s familiar surroundings to start a new life on foreign soil.
Stories Of The Caliphs: The Rulers Of Islam
This collection of stories concerns the lives of the early Muslim leaders, known as Caliphs or successors to the Prophet, who ruled from Medina, then Damascus, and later from Baghdad, over an empire that included a large part of the world.
The Snow Leopard
Dramatic full-color paintings by a distinguished wildlife artist accompany an informative study of one snow leopard, Sabu, who struggles to protect her young cub, Ka, from the many dangers that threaten his life.
The Subtle Knife
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.