James Riordan

Samuel's parents and young sister, innocent bystanders during an uprising, are killed by South African police. Samuel is sent to live with his uncle, a tribal chief in the Bantu homeland, while his brother vows to join the African National Congress armed struggle and avenge his family's deaths. In the h omeland, Samuel discovers he can run faster than anyone and before long begins to train under his English-educated uncle. Years later, after the end...

An insider with practical experience in development work reveals how understanding market realities can more effectively reduce poverty. This book by a practitioner-not an academic, government official, or pundit, has been, written for practitioners and offers fresh thinking on how to do international development work. It combines that thinking with practical guidance, in plain English, on what to do-and perhaps just as importantly, what not to do-on...

A collection of forty-seven folktales from Central Russia.

Twelve of the best-known tales of King Arthur and his knights, retold from Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" and other medieval sources.

A collection of traditional tales from around the world each of whose main character is female.

"Elsa Beskow's charming illustrations bring to life this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of a thumb-sized girl who has big adventures. Thumbelina is so small she sleeps in a walnut shell bed with a rose petal sheet y, a toad steals her away from her home and keeps her captive on a lilypad, until some fish set her free to find her way through the countryside"--