Author: Mandira Shah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354470981
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mandira Shah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354471063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Description Fifteen-year-old April lives in Imphal valley and has grown up learning to save herself from tear-gas shells and hearing stories about children disappearing. But when her best friend Henthoiba goes missing, she is determined to find him. April finds an unlikely ally in Shalini Gupta, her new schoolmate and the daughter of an army man recently posted in Imphal. With no real leads except for a bag with some of Henthoiba's belongings and sharp deduction and combat skills, the two set out to find him. As they get sucked into the investigation, they stumble upon a dangerous, unknown world-where children disappear and are trafficked and trained to be soldiers. A world where drugs, arms and gold are peddled across borders. Was Henthoiba abducted because he knew too much about this world? What awaits Shalini and April at the floating island on Loktak Lake where Henthoiba was last seen? Unflinching, tender and action-packed, Children of the Hidden Land is a story about two girls who overcome their prejudices to question their existing ideas about nation, friendship and ambition. Above all, it is a story of hope and courage.

Author: Pamela Dean
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144068443X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The five cousins are still trapped in the Secret Country, and must play their parts. When the King is poisoned, Ted-Prince Edward-must take the throne, even though he has no idea how to rule a country, battle magic, or inspire followers. Soon enough he will have to do all three because the Country is on the verge of war with the treacherous Dragon King.

Author: David Cutler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The Hidden Land is a series of short illustrated children's stories suitable for ages of about 6-8 years old. The stories are about a group of animals who live together in a land far across the sea in a remote island unseen by any humans. The birds and animals live a life without fear of man and are protected from being eaten by one another by the Forest Code. Each story had a moral in that at the end of each story the reader is asked "What can we learn from this story".

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689848072
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows—does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

Author: Bebbie Hickman
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 163814558X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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With so many books currently on the market geared to our youth, Bebbie Hickman wanted to be a positive force for the Lord to counter the enormous number of reading materials that contain lewd and raw language while edifying the evil forces of the devil. With that in mind, God inspired Bebbie to write The Hidden Land of Youngsters in 1995. It started as a short story consisting of ten pages. Eventually, it got filed away in a drawer. Bebbie rediscovered its worth as a compass, pointing our children in the right direction. She allows her readers the pleasure of enjoying her books without fear of stumbling over curse words, sex themes, or evil influences. The Hidden Land of Youngsters is such a book with adventure, imagination, family ties, decisions to make, and, at the center of it all, a God-inspired message for young people to think on and draw strength from. Bebbie offers parents an alternative reading materials for their children as well as an outlet for children to use their imagination in a clean and fun way. At present, Bebbie is working on The Hidden Land of Youngsters series, focusing on her endearing characters as they face and triumph over evil by relying on God to fight their battles. Bebbie’s inspiration for writing The Hidden Land of Youngsters comes from her granddaughter Maddie and her three grandsons, Philip, Zeb, and Levi, who are portrayed as main characters in the book. Bebbie has a heart for the young people of our time, thus writing positive science fiction topics in book form for the sheer pleasure of her reading audience while instilling confidence in parents who select books authored by Bebbie Hickman.

Author: Saul Mullard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004208968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Using seventeenth and eighteenth century sources from the former Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, this book examines the construction of Sikkimese historiography and presents an interpretation of the history of state formation of Sikkim.

Author: Thomas E. Sniegoski
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506723985
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Even when Big Red was little, he had no shortage of daring adventures. Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as he teams with writer Tom Sniegoski, artist Craig Rousseau, and colorist Dave Stewart to bring you a tale of Hellboy's childhood, collected in a gorgeous hardcover edition! Stranded on a strange island after a mishap on their way to a South American dig site, Hellboy and Professor Bruttenholm are confronted by all manner of monsters on land, sea, and sky! A stranger who rescues them turns out to be one of Hellboy's heroes, but they still aren't as safe as they think they are! An old evil that the island protects is about to reawaken, drawing Hellboy and his new allies into a desperate battle!

Author: Elizabeth Laird
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608465837
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.

Author: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062825607
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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An NPR Best Book of the Year A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. “You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.