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Author / Illustrator: Anne Sibley O'Brien Author: Perry Edmond O'Brien
Product Code: 91295
ISBN: 978-1-58089-129-5
Binding Information: Hardcover
Ages: 9 - 12
Availability: In stock.
Price: $24.95
This book explores the work of Mohandas Gandhi and his legacy through fifteen profiles of activists who chose nonviolent resistance as the path to change. The book focuses on heroic individuals who were in direct physical danger and chose to respond with nonviolence.
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"This mother-and-son effort earns high marks both for adding less-celebrated names to the pantheon of peacemongers and for noting that the nonviolent approach to civil protest doesn't always work—which makes the courage of those who engage in it all the more exemplary."
-- Kirkus Reviews
ERRATA
Pages VI and 89:
The year is listed as 1967. This should read 1976.
Running footers between pages 91-95 also list the year incorrectly as 1967.
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Author: Prue Mason
Product Code: 93145
ISBN: 978-1-58089-314-5
Binding Information: Hardcover
Ages: 10 - 14
Availability: In stock.
Price: $15.95
Adam and his family live comfortably in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. When war breaks out and all foreigners try to escape, Adam runs away in an effort to save his dog, which has been left behind. Alone and without resources in the desert, Adam meets Walid, an abused camel boy who has run away from his cruel masters. Together they struggle to bridge wide gulfs between their cultures and languages in order to survive. Ultimately both boys learn about true friendship.
"[R]iveting... teens will stay on the edge of their seats. . ."
— Publishers Weekly
"[A] solid survival adventure."
— School Library Journal
"[A] fast-paced, exciting read."
— Kirkus Reviews
Read a chapter from Camel Rider.
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Binding Information: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-58089-315-2
Availability: In stock.
Price: $7.95
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Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw recount the unearthing of four hominins--Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman.
"[T]his is an excellent look at an engaging area of science that should find broad readership and use."
--School Library Journal
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Author: Julie Danneberg Illustrator: John Shelley
Product Code: 93206
ISBN: 978-1-58089-320-6
Ages: 8 - 11
Availability: In stock.
Price: $14.95
Mary’s love for her father and her desire to get life back to “normal” push her to take a chance that restores her father’s spirit and brings her family a new life, strengthened by the hardships they have endured.
"[A] warm family story with characters a reader might like to know."
--Kirkus Reviews
"[A] heartwarming novel about overcoming hardship."
--School Library Journal
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Author: Marjorie Cowley
Product Code: 91813
ISBN: 978-1-58089-181-3
Ages: 11 - 14
Availability: In stock.
Price: $15.95
5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa's father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice with Sidah, a master goldsmith for the temple of the moongod, but there is no place for Zefa in Sidah's household. Zefa, a talented but untrained musician, is forced to play her music and sing for alms on the streets of Ur.
Marjorie Cowley vividly imagines the intrigues, and harsh struggle for survival in ancient Mesopotamia.
"Healthy measures of cultural and historical detail. . ."
–Kirkus Reviews
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Author: Ellen Kushner Illustrator: Ilene Winn-Lederer
Product Code: 91356
ISBN: 978-1-58089-135-6
Binding Information: Hardcover
Ages: 8 - 11
Availability: In stock.
Price: $15.95
Sara finds her family's Chanukah celebrations boring until Tante Miriam arrives at the holiday party. She gives Sara a Golden Dreydl that is really an enchanted princess who guides Sara on a journey into a magical world. Imaginative drawings depict a universe where Jewish history collides with fantasy.
"The chatty storytelling is fast, furious, and sometimes funny, especially the riddles of the vicious king. . . Kids will enjoy the fantasy adventure, as well as the contemporary family standoffs; they'll also be interested in Tante Miriam's explanation of the dreydl's symbols. This will be fun for reading aloud."
— Booklist
"The concept is winning.... The illustrations are beautiful...—richly detailed, cheeky charming..."
— Kirkus Reviews
Read a chapter from The Golden Dreydl.
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Binding Information: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-58089-136-3
Availability: In stock.
Price: $8.95
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Author: Ellen Kushner Illustrator: Ilene Winn-Lederer
Product Code: 91363
ISBN: 978-1-58089-136-3
Binding Information: Paperback
Ages: 8 - 11
Availability: In stock.
Price: $8.95
Now in paperback!
Sara finds her family's Chanukah celebrations boring until Tante Miriam arrives at the holiday party. She gives Sara a Golden Dreydl that is really an enchanted princess who guides Sara on a journey into a magical world. Imaginative drawings depict a universe where Jewish history collides with fantasy.
"The chatty storytelling is fast, furious, and sometimes funny, especially the riddles of the vicious king. . . Kids will enjoy the fantasy adventure, as well as the contemporary family standoffs; they'll also be interested in Tante Miriam's explanation of the dreydl's symbols. This will be fun for reading aloud."
-- Booklist
"The concept is winning.... The illustrations are beautiful...--richly detailed, cheeky charming..."
-- Kirkus Reviews
Read a chapter from The Golden Dreydl.
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Author: Robin Friedman
Product Code: 93305
ISBN: 978-1-58089-330-5
Ages: 10 - 14
Availability: In stock.
Price: $15.95
Roxanne just wants to be a normal American girl with a normal American family. But with her mother back in Israel and her father working long hours as a cab driver in Manhattan, Roxanne and her sister, Gayle, have to fend for themselves. Things change, though, when Liat moves into town. Liat challenges Roxanne's assumptions about what it means to be cool, and what it means to be American.
"[E]xquisite . . ."
--Booklist
"Told in a first-person voice that is both sardonic and sincere, Friedman's novel succeeds in bringing forth some common issues that challenge any immigrant American child who must straddle separate ways of life while striving for that true-blue American image."
--Kirkus Reviews
"[T]his is a readable coming-of-age story that captures many universal aspects of the contemporary immigrant experience coupled with middle school angst, first crushes, and the importance of finding one’s own wings."
--School Library Journal
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Author: Sally Derby
Product Code: 93169
ISBN: 978-1-58089-316-9
Availability: In stock.
Price: $16.95
Sally Derby takes readers to a small lake in 1970s Michigan, where thirteen-year-old Kyle comes to understand that loss isn't forever, and that people are more complicated than they seem.
"...Derby creates a realistic rendition of family life, with a smattering of adventure, in this tender coming-of-age story."
--Publishers Weekly
"Debut novelist Derby writes a quiet, solid, and benevolently old-fashioned story..."
--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"A poignant coming-of-age story..."
--Kirkus Reviews
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Author / Illustrator: Anne Sibley O'Brien
Product Code: 93022
ISBN: 978-1-58089-302-2
Binding Information: Hardcover
Ages: 9 - 12
Availability: In stock.
Price: $16.95
Hong Kil dong, the son of a powerful minister, is not entitled to a birthright because his mother is a commoner. After studying martial arts, divination, swordplay, the uses of magic, and the wisdom of the Book of Changes, Kil Dong sets off on a quest to discover his destiny and claim his rightful role as a wise and just leader.
". . . will entice reluctant readers as well as adventure lovers."
— School Library Journal
"WOW! — no, make that OMANAH!"
— The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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Binding Information: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-58089-303-9
Availability: In stock.
Price: $8.95
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