Posts Tagged ‘Communism’
Escaping the Tiger
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Escaping the Tiger
HarperCollins, 2010
Fiction
ISBN: 0061661775
224 pages
HarperCollins, 2010
Fiction
ISBN: 0061661775
224 pages
Synopsis
When you’re so skinny people call you Skeleton Boy, how do you find strength for the fight of your life?
Twelve-year-old Vonlai knows that soldiers who guard the Mekong River shoot at anything that moves, but in oppressive Communist Laos, there’s nothing left for him, his spirited sister, Dalah, and his desperate parents. Their only hope is a refugee camp in Thailand—on the other side of the river. …
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A Brief History of Montmaray
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A Brief History of Montmaray
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2009
Historical Fiction
ISBN: 0375858644
304 pages
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2009
Historical Fiction
ISBN: 0375858644
304 pages
Synopsis
“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”
Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the mainland reveals a world on the brink of war. The politics of Europe seem far away from their remote island—until two German officers land a boat on Montmaray. And then suddenly politics become very personal indeed. …
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