villages

Nathan Ward is whisked away as a child to live in the forested land of Thornyhill under the guidance of a man named Bartlemy. As he grows up, Nathan senses he is being watched from the surrounding Darkwood, and his visions start to come true. A jeweled, green stone cup from his visions resembles one lost by the Thorn family hundreds of years earlier. When Nathan learns the cup is from another world, he and his friend Hazel travel into dreams, lands, and legends that hold the answers.

Windisch, a miller in a Romanian village under the rule of dictator Ceausescu, desperate to get a passport to migrate to West Germany, sends his daughter to persuade village officials after his attempts to bribe the mayor fail.

Recreates everyday life in an Anglo Saxon village, including how the village was built, how homes were heated and cleaned, and how people worked by farming, weaving, and raising animals.

Emily decides that the town of Pitchfork needs a library, and comes up with a plan to make it happen. Can she make her dream come true?.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce children to how people lived in the past and how various aspects of their community might differ from communities in the past.

The author describes his close relationship to two water buffalo that were part of his family when he was growing up in a village in the central highlands of Vietnam.

Presents a children's book for early readers about a little Kenyan boy who gets distracted by all there is to see and do and forgets what his mama asked him to do.

Describes life in a big city and on a farm near a village.

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.

A thick fog settles over a small village on the coast of Maine, and when the older villagers--a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker--can't get ride of it, they listen to a young girl's solution.