After being framed for cowardice in a sea battle, 13-year-old Sam and his friend Richard are sent to Australia, where they must fight for their lives in the outback.
War
Megiddo’s Shadow
After the death of his beloved older brother hector in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in Canada to enlist in Hector’s battalion, where he attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
I Remember Bosnia
Bosnia earns independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1992. Since then the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims living there have been fighting. Life in Bosnia is described.
The Roses in My Carpets
When a young boy and his mother and sister come to a refugee camp to escape the war in Afghanistan, he finds some comfort in the beauty of the carpets he is learning weave.
Thura’s Diary: My Life In Wartime Iraq
Nineteen-year-old Thura al-Windawi traces the days leading up to the bombings in Iraq, the war, and the chaos that followed, describing her life and the reality of war for Iraqi families.
Year of No Rain
In 1999, when rebel soldiers come to their village in southern Sudan, Stephen and his friends escape but hope to be able to return again.
Lydia, Queen Of Palestine
Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents’ divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.
The Lost Boys Of Natinga: A School For Sudan’s Young Refugees
A photojournalist vividly describes daily life at Natinga, a refugee camp and school established in 1993 in southern Sudan for boys forced from their homes by that country’s Civil War.
Manneken Pis
This book tells the story of the legendary Belgian boy who showed the world just how silly it is to fight.