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You are invited to an old-fashioned tea party to hear the inspiring story of Mimi, an eight-year-old Moravian girl living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, during WWII. Share Mimi's deli… More

The world of Newbery Honor book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this

novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny

of custom and anci… More

Will Windrider
take to the skies?

Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider … More

August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m.
Hiroshima. Japan

A little girl and her parents
are eating breakfast,
and then it happened.
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.

This book is de… More

It's Passover, and family and friends are coming over to celebrate. Young readers can lift the flaps and join the fun as the family in this lively story asks the Four Questions, sa… More

Illus. in full color. "Drawing on a Chinese form of storytelling with seven

shapes cut from a square of paper, Tompert recounts the tale of two fox

fairies. Parker's … More

Escaping from his violent stepfather, twelve-year-old Sipho heads for Johannesburg, where he has heard that gangs of children live on the streets. Surviving hunger and bitter-cold … More

Peppe becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century New York City, despite his papa's disapproval. But when Peppe's job helps save his little si… More

Mi Fei is a humble painter of scrolls. Between each day's sunrise and sunset, he paints scenes of the gods and their festivals' portraits of heroes and their deeds. Although the… More

Reading leevel: Ages 9 and up.

Nhamo's mother is dead, and her father is gone. She is a virtual slave in her small African village. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo learns that she must marry a cruel man with … More