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Gloria Whelan
Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
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Times are hard and winter is very cold in northern Michigan. Without a warm coat, Holly might not be able to start school. Can Mama figure out a solution before…
Kumar, a young boy living in present-day India, faces bigotry when he goes to visit a classmate from a higher caste family.
In 1837 ten-year-old Libby and her parents journey by covered wagon to the Michigan frontier, where they make themselves a new home near friendly Indians and other pioneers.
Even though he is the runt of the litter from her father’s prize sled-racing dog, ten-year-old Rachel plans to train her puppy to become a champion racer and determines to…
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Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. Though she is only eight years old, she must sit with the women and pound milet kernels–hard work that…
The National Book Award-winning author of Homeless Bird returns with this riveting tale of love and sacrifice, featuring a brother and sister who pursue freedom within the shadow of Argentina’s…
With luminescent detail, a National Book Award-winning author transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey…
Thirteen-year-old Rachel Sheridan is left an orphan after influenza takes the lives of her missionary parents in British East Africa in 1919. National Book Award-winning author Whelan crafts a wickedly…
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India’s tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
In 1913 Russia, Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home to join her mother, a lady-in-waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world…
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan’s Mackinac Island while their father’s away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
This National Book Award-winning novel chronicles the story of a young Indian woman who dares to defy fate when she is forced into an arranged marriage.
A National Book Award-winning novelist delivers a lush story about a young British girl coming of age in 1918 India.
Gloria Whelan,Gwenyth Swain
Three stories focusing on the Underground Railroad and the 1963 Freedom March on Washington. Stories are Friend on Freedom River, Riding to Washington, and The Listeners.
In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun’s palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with…
For generations the women of Zulviya’s family have earned their living by weaving rugs by hand. During one work day, Zulviya will tie thousands of knots. As she sits at…
In 1840, Libby, living with her family on the Michigan frontier, finds herself inadvertently caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands.
In 1841 thirteen-year-old Libby and her family begin a new life on the shores of Lake Michigan where her father works as a surveyor for the Ottawa Indians and Libby…
Ten-year-old Megan Brady tells of her family’s lifestyle, spending summers traveling in a caravan through the Irish countryside getting work where they can, and winters in Dublin so the children…
In Depression-era northern Michigan, a young boy meets a teenager serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ millions of…
Ella May is a slave on a Southern plantation. Each night, Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their master’s house in the hopes of gleaning…
When shy, 10-year-old Lucy comes to live with her aunt and uncle at their mission school, she’s surprised at the number of harsh rules and restrictions imposed on the children…
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Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn’t go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the…
Ten-year-old Pierre dreams of being a chef at his parents’ restaurant, La Bonne Vache, in the south of France and is told he is too young, but when an important…
Set in the late 1950s, this is the moving story of a young boy whose father operates a ferryboat between Michigan’s Upper and Lower peninsulas. As young Mark witnesses the…
A new Marvel legend arrives.
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