Archive for the ‘Geography/Culture’ Category
Tiger Moon
Amulet Books, 2008
Fantasy
ISBN:081099481X
464 pages
Awards
Synopsis
Safia, a beautiful woman from the deserts of India, is traded as property by her father to a wealthy but evil merchant. Seeking to free herself from this plight, she befriends one of the palace servants, a eunuch named Lagan. During the nights where the two engage in conversation, Safia weaves a story of a young thief named Farhad. This young man, the unlikeliest of heroes, is called to rescue a princess from the Demon King, and in order to do so, he must go on a quest to find the Bloodstone. Farhad finds strange help along the way, especially when he rescues a white tiger and rides him across the desert to the palace. Eventually, the two stories begin to intertwine, and Lagan realizes that he must make a choice that may jeopardize his own safety. …
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I Am The Darker Brother – Reviewing Classics
Simon Pulse, (reprint edition) 1997
Genre
ISBN: 0689808690
192 pages
Synopsis
A collection of African American poetry from the 20th century originally compiled in the late 60s, I Am The Darker Brother is one of the few anthologies of African American poetry amassed specifically for younger readers. From cover to cover, each poet leaves a legacy about life in America as ‘the other’. This edition adds more current writers that carved out a career post 1968, like Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, and Ishmael Reed. …
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The Space Between Our Footsteps
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 1998
Poetry
ISBN:0689812337
144 pages
Synopsis
In the attempt to dispel the myth that everything about Muslim culture and the Middle East is violent, dangerous, and cultureless, Nye has compiled a collection of Middle Eastern and Islamic poetry and art largely created throughout the 20th century. In her forward, she notes that because of the news, Americans have a very disparaging view of the Middle East and Muslims. …
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The Arrival
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007
Graphic Novel – Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0439895294
128 pages
Synopsis
A story told solely through breathtaking art, Tan paints an imaginatory tale of an immigrant who leaves his family in a dangerous country in order to find work in a new place and save money to bring his family there. …
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The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007
Fiction
ISBN-10: 0316013684
240 pages
National Book Award Winner
Synopsis
Told from the first person narrative of Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, the story chronicles a year in his life as a Spokan Indian from Wellpinit, WA, as he bravely decides to go to a high school outside of the reservation in a neighboring White town. Forced to overcome his insecurities as an ethnic outsider and his handicaps and speech impediments having been born with water on the brain, Junior discovers that choosing hope and pursuing his dreams will be the most difficult thing he’s ever done. …
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008
Fiction
ISBN: 0316057800
448 pages
Synopsis
A year after their original dangerous task of unearthing the terrible plan of Mr. Curtain to take over the world and enslave the minds of men with his nefarious machine, The Whisperer, the four genius children are ready to take another trip together that will stimulate their ever growing minds. …
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