In the Sea There are Crocodiles

Author: Fabio Geda
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari’s small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat’s remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen. Along the way, Enaiat endures the crippling physical and emotional agony of dangerous border crossings, trekking across bitterly cold mountain pathways for days on end or being stuffed into the false bottom of a truck. But not everyone is as resourceful, resilient, or lucky as Enaiat, and there are many heart-wrenching casualties along the way. Based on Enaiat’s close collaboration with Italian novelist Fabio Geda and expertly rendered in English by an award- winning translator, this novel reconstructs the young boy’s memories, perfectly preserving the childlike perspective and rhythms of an intimate oral history. Told with humor and humanity, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiat’s moving and engaging voice and lends urgency to an epic story of hope and survival.

Counting Crocodiles

Author: Judy Sierra
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152163563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
In this rhymed retelling of a traditional Asian tale, a clever monkey uses her ability to count to outwit the hungry crocodiles that stand between her and a banana tree on another island across the sea.

Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid

Author: Yao Xiao
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524861898
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid perfectly captures the feelings of a young sojourner in America as she explores the nuances in searching for a place to belong. Baopu is a monthly serialized comic on Autostraddle, and this book includes beloved fan favorites plus new, never-before-seen comics. This one-of-a-kind graphic novel explores the poetics of searching for connection, belonging, and identity through the fictional life of a young, queer immigrant. Inspired by the creator's own experiences as a queer, China-born illustrator living in the United States, Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid has an undeniable memoir quality to its recollection and thought-provoking accounts of what it's like to navigate the complexities of seeking belonging—mentally and geographically.

When the Sea is Rising Red

Author: Cat Hellisen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 142995101X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
After seventeen-year-old Felicita's dearest friend Ilven kills herself to escape an arranged marriage, Felicita chooses freedom over privilege. She fakes her own death and leaves her sheltered life as one of Pelimburg's magical elite behind. Living in the slums, scrubbing dishes for a living, she falls for charismatic Dash while also becoming fascinated with vampire Jannik. Then something shocking washes up on the beach: Ilven's death has called out of the sea a dangerous wild magic. Felicita must decide whether her loyalties lie with the family she abandoned . . . or with those who would twist this dark power to destroy Pelimburg's caste system, and the whole city along with it.

Supercroc and the Origin of Crocodiles

Author: Christopher Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439425285
Category : Crocodiles, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Discusses prehistoric crocodiles, including the discovery of SuperCroc in the Sahara Desert, and the lifestyles, habitats, and conservation of modern crocodiles.

Star of the Sea

Author: Janet Halfmann
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805090738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
Learn about what life is like for a starfish, also called a sea star.

Patterns at the Sea Shore

Author: Dawn Bluemel Oldfield
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1627243917
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
There are rows of beach chairs at a seashore. Stripes on the chairs make an alternating pattern: red, white, red, white. Wind blows the sand and moves it around, making a wavy pattern. Four pelicans facing different directions sit side-by-side on a dock. They form a pattern, too: left, right, left, right. There are patterns to be found all around the seashore. In this visually dazzling book, beginning readers will learn all about the shapes and colors that make up patterns at the seashore. Each 32-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful design, and exquisite photos are sure to delight and engage emergent readers.

The Flight of the Maidens

Author: Jane Gardam
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609454065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
The Whitbread Award–winning author of the Old Filth trilogy captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood. Yorkshire, 1946. The end of the war has changed the world again, and, emboldened by this new dawning, Hetty Fallows, Una Vane, and Lieselotte Klein seize the opportunities with enthusiasm. Hetty, desperate to escape the grasp of her critical mother, books a solo holiday to the Lake District under the pretext of completing her Oxford summer coursework. Una, the daughter of a disconcertingly cheery hairdresser, entertains a romantically inclined young man from the wrong side of the tracks and the left-side of politics. Meanwhile, Lieselotte, the mysterious Jewish refugee from Germany, leaves the Quaker family who had rescued her, to test herself in London. Although strikingly different from one another, these young women share the common goal of adventure and release from their middle-class surroundings through romance and education. “Gardam’s lean, fast-paced prose is at turns hugely funny and deeply moving. . . . [Her] characters are acutely and compassionately observed.” —Atlantic Monthly “Quirky, enchanting . . . with lively, laugh-out loud elan.” —The Baltimore Sun “Splendid . . . Gardam’s style is perfect.” —The New York Times Book Review “With winning charm and wit . . . Gardam frames her story in dozens of crisp, brief scenes featuring deliciously dizzy conversation.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Ebullient, humorous, and wise, this is a novel to savor.” —Booklist “The portrait of postwar England as conventions crumble and the country is rebuilt is terrific.” —Publishers Weekly

Paper Planes

Author: Steve Worland
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760140872
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
One paper plane flies straight and fast and true. Dylan's. Twelve-year-old Dylan Webber lives in outback Western Australia in a small country town. When he discovers he has a talent for folding and flying paper planes, Dylan begins a journey to reach the World Junior Paper Plane Championships in Japan. Along the way he makes unlikely new friends, clashes with powerful rivals and comes to terms with his family's past before facing his greatest challenge – to create a paper plane that will compete with the best in the world. Steve Worland brings you the exciting, heartwarming story of Paper Planes, adapted from the award-winning family film that features a cast of Australia's finest actors, including Sam Worthington, Deborah Mailman, David Wenham and Ed Oxenbould.

Journey to the River Sea

Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439567633
Category : Amazon River Region
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.