Ziba Came on a Boat

Ziba Came on a Boat
Author: Liz Lofthouse
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1933605529

Based on real events is the moving story of a little girl whose family has lost almost everything. This beautiful picture book takes us on her brave journey to make a new life far from home.

The Little Refugee

The Little Refugee
Author: Anh Do
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781742378329

The story of one Vietnamese family's survival against the odds, and the healing power of hope.

The London Eye Mystery

The London Eye Mystery
Author: Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2008-02-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375849351

Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.

Out PB

Out PB
Author: Angela May George
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-04
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9781743629017

A little girl and her mother have fled their homeland, making the long and treacherous journey by boat to seek asylum. Timely, powerful and moving, Out celebrates the triumph of the human spirit in the darkest times, and the many paths people take to build a new life.

Map of Dreams

Map of Dreams
Author: Uri Shulevitz
Publisher: Andersen Press (UK)
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2008
Genre: Geography
ISBN: 9781842707609

When war devastates their country, a boy and his parents are forced to flee to another country far east, where they must live in a small room shared with another couple. Food is scarce. But one day, when father goes to the bazaar to buy bread, he comes home with a map instead. The boy and his mother are furious, they are so hungry! But the map floods their cheerless room with colour. The boy becomes fascinated by it and is transported far away without ever leaving the room. Father was right to buy it, after all.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2008-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 074758589X

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

Wonderlands

Wonderlands
Author: Robert Ingpen
Publisher: Welbeck Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781913519711

Robert Ingpen's astonishing creative vision, expressed in well over 100 books, has enchanted countless families around the world. Like a keeper of our collective imagination, he has led us on wide-ranging journeys into the wondrous landscapes of the classics he has so famously illustrated: Neverland, the Riverbank, Oz and Alice's Wonderland - as well as into the magical scenes of his own invention and the more real but no less captivating scenery of his beloved Australia. Wonderlands is a glorious celebration of Robert Ingpen's work as an illustrator and storyteller, told through his own illustrator's notes, original sketches and abundant illustrations from his award-winning publications - and revealing the places, stories and people that inspired him along the way.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Author: Hugh Howey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1328767531

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey's science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author's note exploring the background and genesis of each story. Howey's incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short works--from a modern master at the top of his game.

Click Go the Shears

Click Go the Shears
Author: Robert R. Ingpen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 27
Release: 1986
Genre: Ballads, Australian
ISBN: 9780006623267

Suri's Wall

Suri's Wall
Author: Lucy Estela
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0143505963

"Eva squeezed Suri's hand. "What's there? What can you see?" "What can I see?" Suri looked out over the wall. "Oh, it's beautiful, let me tell you all about it." A moving tale of the power of the human spirit brought alive by Lucy Estela and award-winning illustrator Matt Ottley."--Publisher's description.