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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.

Set in the sinister monastery of The Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest.

After appearing to the author, whose plane has been forced down in the African desert, the little prince freely shares his experiences with the fascinated pilot, then disappears as mysteriously as