Napoli, Donna Jo

During World War II, Roberto and his best friend are abducted by German Soldiers from a small town outside of Venice--despite the fact that Italy and Germany are allies--and taken to a work camp in Munich. The horrors they experience change Roberto's outlook from self-preservation to guarded activism, to following his escape, outright sabotage. A gripping come-of-age novelabout the human costs of war.

The Little Angel of Friendship watches over Patricia, a nine-year-old deaf girl, as she moves from the family farm to the city and tries to make friends with hearing people.

A little Angel of Freedom hopes to earn her wings by helping Simone understand the value of freedom, so that she will stop capturing and imprisoning animals.

Presents illustrated retellings of Egyptian myths, sharing the stories of Ra, Isis, Osiris, Anubis, and Bastet with sidebars for each god, goddess, monster and mortal that link the tales to history, geography, and culture, and includes a timeline, and other resources.

In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.

Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.

Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni has only his pride and good looks. He makes a simple-sounding wager with the devil who offers him unlimited wealth as long as Giovanni does not bathe or change his clothes for over three years. Giovanni sacrifices his beauty and his pride while struggling desperately to win the wager and save his soul.

Presents a retelling of the classic story, "Beauty and the Beast", set in Persia, where Orasmyn, heir to the throne, is turned into a beast after making a foolish choice, and must find a woman to love him to undo the curse.

Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.