Baron Lamberto, 93 years old and in failing health, lives in a mansion on an island in the middle of Lake Orta, in northern Italy. Living from the proceeds of his 24 banks around the world, he is waited on by his butler, Anselmo, and an army of cooks, servants, and, strangely, six people in … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto
In the pampas of Argentina in the mid-twentieth century, a young girl, Clara, helps her mother wash and deliver laundry for the wealthier families of their village. One day, her mother tells her to “Take these clothes to the man in the big house.” The mother warns her not to get distracted, to leave the … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Clara and the Man With Books in His Window
Ha, the Korean-born author/illustrator of the bestselling YA graphic novel Almost American Girl returns to the popular genre with a story rooted in the medieval-era folklore of the country she left at the age of 14. The Fox Maidens is based on the legend of Gumiho, a nine-tailed fox with magical powers and in many stories, a taste for … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Fox Maidens
When Annick, an older teenager living in Amsterdam, learns that the grandmother who has raised her ever since her parents’ death in an accident, needs a bone marrow transplant, it leads her on a journey that will take her across oceans and continents, and almost 70 years into the past. Searching for a perfect match, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Song of a Blackbird
When Banned Book Club, a YA graphic novel-memoir by Kim Hyun Sook, Kp Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada appeared in 2020, it gained widespread attention for its account of a provincial first-year university student in South Korea 1983 who learns about her country’s dictatorship and the freedom struggle when she joins a traditional dance team and its … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: No Rules Tonight
In 1934 the American occupiers have left Haiti, but things are no better for the people ruled by corrupt and brutal section chiefs. When one of them kidnaps 16-year-old Lucille’s best friend and cuts down their favorite mapou tree, Lucille goes down to the police station to inquire. That puts her own family in danger, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: When the Mapou Sings
First published in 2006, this revised and expanded edition of Genocide updates information and case studies through the beginning of 2024. This allows the author to address both the brutal October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israeli communities and a music festival, and the Israeli Defense Force’s bombardment of and withholding of humanitarian supplies from Palestinian … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Genocide, revised & expanded edition
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