Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Action & Adventure - Survival Stories

This is the Russian Version - After Queen Maza gave birth to her perfectly formed child in the Land called Beauty, a land populated entirely be deformed characters, she and King Shrine were ordered to cast the child out of the village. Tears fall for the first time in the land of Beauty. The Wind and the River took the child in and raised him as their own. They taught him all they could, yet realized one so destined needed more than they could ever impart. They named him Windter and took him to the Great Tree to learn his final lesson, the lesson of LAST. Windter climbed to the highest...

This is the Bilingual Version in Arabic/English - After Queen Maza gave birth to her perfectly formed child in the Land called Beauty, a land populated entirely be deformed characters, she and King Shrine were ordered to cast the child out of the village. Tears fall for the first time in the land of Beauty. The Wind and the River took the child in and raised him as their own. They taught him all they could, yet realized one so destined needed more than they could ever impart. They named him Windter and took him to the Great Tree to learn his final lesson, the lesson of LAST. Windter...

This is the Bilingual Version Japanese/English - After Queen Maza gave birth to her perfectly formed child in the Land called Beauty, a land populated entirely be deformed characters, she and King Shrine were ordered to cast the child out of the village. Tears fall for the first time in the land of Beauty. The Wind and the River took the child in and raised him as their own. They taught him all they could, yet realized one so destined needed more than they could ever impart. They named him Windter and took him to the Great Tree to learn his final lesson, the lesson of LAST. Windter climbed...

This is the Bilingual Version Chinese/English - After Queen Maza gave birth to her perfectly formed child in the Land called Beauty, a land populated entirely be deformed characters, she and King Shrine were ordered to cast the child out of the village. Tears fall for the first time in the land of Beauty. The Wind and the River took the child in and raised him as their own. They taught him all they could, yet realized one so destined needed more than they could ever impart. They named him Windter and took him to the Great Tree to learn his final lesson, the lesson of last. Windter climbed...

This is the Swedish Version - Efter Drottning Masa och Kung Shrines fysiskt perfekta barn fOddes i landet som kallades "SkOnhet," ett Land endast befolkat av vanskapta karaktArer, Kungen och Drottningen blev beordrade att kasta ut barnet frAn byn. TArar fOll fOr fOrsta gAngen i landet, SkOnhet. Vinden och Floden tog sig an barnet och uppfostrade honom som deras egen. De lArde honom allt de kunde, men insAg att en med ett sAdant Ode behOvde mer An vad de kunde nAgonsin delgiva. De gav honom namnet, Windter, och fOrde honom till det Stora TrAdet fOr att lAra sig sin sista lektion. Windter...

"We're nearer hell than home now Charlie," the great man said, as we looked to the huge pillars of smoke, that spiraled above the beaches. We were there to save the soldiers; little did I know that soon I would need rescuing myself from the Demons of Dunkirk.

Charlie's mother and father work at a Spitfire factory in the fishing port of Hamble. After a run-in with a brutal instructor on the naval training ship Mercury, the teenager finds himself on the run from the British...

Mama has trained up her baby possums in the ways of their breed, and now it's time for all of them--even little Appleblossom--to make their way in the world. Appleblossom knows the rules: she must never be seen during the day, and she must avoid cars, humans, and the dreaded hairies (sometimes known as dogs). Even so, Appleblossom decides to spy on a human family--and accidentally falls down...

With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

From the author: The Journey is actually a story about many journeys, and it began with the story of two girls I met in a refugee center in Italy. After meeting them I realized that behind their journey lay something very powerful. So I began collecting more stories of migration and...

Cassie s family's ranch is struggling financially and the ranch will go under if the cows and calves aren t brought down safely from high summer pastures before the weather turns cold. The stakes are high: if the cattle are lost, so is the ranch and their way of life. Cassie and Jasper head for the mountains to bring the cattle home. Trail riding, camping, and herding cows is nothing new for the seasoned ranch kids, but an early snowstorm, rustlers, and other dangers turn the weekend into a fight for survival for kids and cattle alike. It will take all of their courage, cowboy skills, and...

Based on a real-life revelational experience that is described in the substantial Afterword section, The White Horse teaches that one should not judge another by superficial characteristics. In a rural setting whose exact time and setting are purposely undefined, a family of four young children and their parents rejects a horse because of his skin color. The horse initially resigns himself to his outcast status, but when the children find themselves in danger, he emerges as a confident rescuer. The horse s heroic act proves to the family, and to the horse, himself, that their preconceived...