villages

A small fishing village on a tropical coast lives peacefully until Abbas, who wants to take control of the harbor and surrounding farmland, begins to use threats, bribery, and violence to increase his power.

Ezomo chases after the leopard he believes killed his father, which leads him and his two friends to open the forbidden magical door that protects their village.

In Punjab, 1929, the young bride Mehar does not even know who her new husband is, having been sequestered in the family "china room" with the other two women forced to marry three brothers. They are only allowed out at night when Mai, their controlling mother-in-law, summons them to a dark room at night. Mehar, strong-willed, vows to uncover what Mai doesn't want her to know about her new husband. Many decades later in 1999, a young man arrives at his uncle's Punjab house, hoping to find help overcoming an addiction and a history of racism and violence in England, all having to do with the secret that Mehar found out nearly a century earlier.

"Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to thevillagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decideto fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, Joy of the Oppressed is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghosts of colonialism, comes up against one village's quest for justice--and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom"--Provided by publisher.

"Mulan is different from the other girls in her village, and she feels like a disappointment to her family--until a wise remark from her younger sister changes her perspective"--OCLC.

"Sixteen-year-old Lexi, who lives on an enchanted moor at the edge of the village of Near, must solve the mystery when, the day after a mysterious boy appears in town, children start disappearing"--OCLC.

Do?a Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise.

"Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong"--Back cover.

While looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her backyard, Bobbi finds part of an ancient spaceship still humming with some sort of life.

"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--Provided by publisher.