Pegi Deitz Shea
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.
4) Abe in Arms
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Series
Language
English
Description
A senior in high school, Abe's got a Division I track scholarship awaiting him, a hot girlfriend, and a loving and wealthy adoptive family, including a brother his age. But suddenly, horrific flashbacks and seizures rip him back five-years ago to war-torn Africa, where he lost his mother, his sister, his friends, and almost his own life to torturous violence. In therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Abe uncovers even darker moments that make...
8) New moon
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A young child looks for the moon on a dark winter night.
Author
Series
Musical stories series volume 2
Publisher
Pumpkin House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Sent to his bedroom for being naughty, a young boy throws a tantrum, injuring various objects in the room that later come to life to teach him a lesson. Based on the story from an opera by Maurice Ravel.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the 1800s, Abby and Julia Smith refused to pay an unfair property tax that they had no voice in establishing. When the authorities confiscated their cows, the Smiths bought them back at auction, year after year, attracting the attention of women's suffrage supporters across the country.