Europe, A True Book
• Sandra Newman
HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Part of the True Book series, this illustrated, readable volume geared toward middle readers introduces children to the geography and diverse cultures of Europe.
(EUR336, $6.95) |
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Eyewitness Castle
• Christopher Gravett
HISTORY •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 72 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Take a look behind the walls of these fascinating fortresses and learn how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals; how a young boy rose from lowly page to noble knight; and what life was like for the castle residents. With a CD of clip art and a poster.
(EUR335, $16.99) |
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The Good Master
• Kate Seredy
LITERATURE •
1986 •
PAPER
• 196 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Here's a book that will make 9-12 year-olds wish they had lived in Hungary a hundred years ago. First published in the 1930s, "The Good Master" tells of two cousins who ride horses across the Hungarian plains, encountering shepherds and gypsies en route. It's all marvelously evocative of the folk customs and lifestyles of old Hungary. Kate Seredy continued the cousins' story in a sequel, "The Singing Tree" (HGR26).
(HGR25, $5.99) |
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The Singing Tree
• Kate Seredy
LITERATURE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 247 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
The sequel to "The Good Master," in which cousins Jancsi and Kate are now older -- and Hungary (and all of 1914 Europe) are on the brink of war.
(HGR26, $6.99) |
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The White Stag
• Kate Seredy
LITERATURE •
1979 •
PAPER
• 96 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
It isn't every children's novel that features Attila the Hun among its cast of characters, but this re-telling of the Hungarian national epic not only casts the long-vilified Attila, it casts him as none other than the father of the Hungarian nation. And so he was. Kate Seredy drew on oral traditions and folklore for this gripping novella about the Huns' and Magyars' fifth-century migration from Asia to Central Europe. It won her a Newbery Medal in 1938. Ages 9 to 12
(HGR27, $4.99) |
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His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg
• Louise W. Borden
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2012 •
HARD COVER
• 128 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
Borden shares the inspirational and heroic story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish humanitarian who saved thousands of innocent Jews from the terrors of the Holocaust while working in Budapest during World War II.
(WAR155, $18.99) |
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Upon the Head of the Goat, A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
• Aranka Siegal
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2003 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
This spare memoir of a Jewish girlhood in a German-occupied Hungarian town won its author a Newbery Honor citation. Its serious subject and introspective tone are recommended for sophisticated young adults.
(HGR24, $7.99) |
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