Posts Tagged ‘kansas’
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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The End Is Now
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The End Is Now
Zondervan, 2009
Science Fiction
ISBN:0310286794
336 pages
Zondervan, 2009
Science Fiction
ISBN:0310286794
336 pages
Synopsis
One totally ordinary night, 5th grader Will Henderson takes a short cut through a cornfield to get home in time for dinner. Normally, he would have no problem, but on this night he’s distracted and gets lost. After running around in circles, a face appears to him out of the corn, and tells him that there will be three signs, and then the rapture is coming, but only to Goodland, Kansas. Will, feeling compelled to warn his town, is met with a barrage of various responses. However, as the signs begin to come true, people must decide where they stand on the issue, and the town is thrown into a general pandemonium. …
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