Wendy Orr
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The girl has had many selves in her short life. The first she remembers is Aissa, the daughter of Mama and Dada, sister to Zufi who watched the goats. Then the Bull King's raiders came, and Mama said, "Don't make a sound till I come back." And when the villagers found her she was silent as stone, because Mama never come back again. So the villagers cursed her as bad luck and made her No-Name, lowest of the servants to the Lady, the island's priestess....
2) Mokie & Bik
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
For two rambunctious twins, living on a boat means always being underfoot or overboard.
3) Nim's island
Author
Series
Nim series volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"When Honey's family decides to get away from the world to avoid a spreading illness, they drive off in their converted ice cream truck, stumbling upon the valley of horses. Once there, Honey's family can't find the bridge they used to enter, trapping them in the tranquil valley. Seven years pass, and Honey's family has been perfectly self-sufficient, until her father falls ill. To save her father, Honey must find a way to escape the valley of horses."--...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Bronze-Age Crete, before horses were common on the island, potter's-daughter Clio continues to raise and train them even though an accident has left her unable to ride. After a series of difficult years in the community, the threat of raiders prompts the town's ruling Lady to demand the sacrifice of a maiden between ages twelve and fourteen, who will be selected at the spring equinox. Certain that she will be named the sacrifice, Clio struggles...
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