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Depicts the immigrant child's struggle to begin again in a strange land.

Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was.

A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

A communist revolution followed by a dictatorship is enacted when the animals of an English farm drive out the human owner and take over.

When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.