Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois, " and people of laughter.
Ella Turner moves to France with her husband expecting a quiet life, begins researching her family's French ancestry, and discovers unsettling parallels between herself and a woman who lived four centuries earlier.
In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Laszlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.
In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Laszlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Explores genocide and persecution in the People's Republic of China, including the historical/cultural background of events from the rise of the communist People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present.
Provides background information on the ethnic groups of Kosovo, and describes the breakup of Yugoslavia, the events leading up to war, the international intervention, and its consequences.
In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.
