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December, 1961, Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East—with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side. January, 1989, Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Kurt, a young East Berliner, often wonders what those living on the other side must think of their unseen neighbors. Do they hate the people of East Germany as completely as Kurt has been instructed to hate them?

It's 1962, and it seems that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn't know how to deal with what's going on in the world - no more than she knows how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it through.

Samkad lives deep in the Philippine jungle, and has never encountered anyone from outside his own tribe before. He's about to become a man, and while he's desperate to grow up, he's worried that this will take him away from his best friend, Little Luki, who isn't ready for the traditions and ceremonies of being a girl in her tribe. But when a bad omen sends Samkad's life in another direction, he discovers the brother he never knew he had. A brother who tells him of a people called 'Americans'. A people who are bringing war, and destruction right to their home.

Shakespeare's plays have been beloved for so many years that his characters and words have shaped our world today. This collection has adapted these works adapted for younger listeners, introducing them to iconic characters such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt.

In Alexandria, Virginia, in the mid-19th century, a slave-owning family is facing financial trouble. The eldest son, Jason, thinks going to California to mine for gold might be the best way to protect his father’s legacy. He’ll need a cook, a laundress, and a hostler for the journey, and one of them is twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother calls her Hope. From Independence, Missouri—the “Gateway to the West”—she and the others join a wagon train on the Emigrant Overland Trail.

Es war kalt geworden im Sherwood Wald. Robin und seine Gefährten sehnen den Frühling herbei. Aber der eisige Wind aus dem Norden lässt keine Hoffnung aufkommen. Lady Miriam und ihre Magd Thelma leben mit den Getreuen im Lager. Prinz John, der erbarmungslose Despot hat nach Robins Burg auch jene von Miriams Vater niederbrennen lassen. Die Menschen sehnen König Richards Wiederkehr herbei, aber haben kaum noch Hoffnung, denn der sitzt immer noch im Kerker im fernen Österreich und sein nichtswürdiger Bruder hat das Land mit einem Leichentuch überzogen.

Der schurkische Bruder von König Richard Löwenherz Prinz John, hat den Thron in England bestiegen und mit Hilfe des Sheriffs von Nottingham eine Schreckensherrschaft errichtet. Robin Hood, der Schrecken der Besitzenden, der König der Diebe und der Beschützer der Armen hat sich gemeinsam mit Will in die Wälder zurückgezogen. Eine immer größer werdende Anzahl von Getreuen scharrt sich um die "Treuesten der Treuen". Sie wollen den Kampf gegen die Willkürherrschaft antreten und das Land sowie ihren König Richard aus der österreichischen Gefangenschaft befreien.

Nach dem tollkühnen Überfall, den Robin und seine Männer auf die mächtige Burg von Nottingham gewagt hatten, um das Lösegeld für ihren geliebten König Richard aufzutreiben, war die Geduld von Prinz John am Ende. So drückt es zumindest der Sheriff aus, der blutrünstige Lakaie des Prinzregenten und jüngeren Bruders von Richard Löwenherz. Im ganzen Land wird Jagd auf die Vogelfreien, Robins grüne Schar, gemacht. Aber andererseits schließen sich immer mehr Bauern und Handwerker den Freisassen an, denn sie alle sind der despotischen Herrschaft von Prinz John überdrüssig.

Robin Hood und Will, die "Treuesten der Treuen", nehmen unter der Führung von Kaiser Friedrich I Barbarossa und ihrem König Richard Löwenherz am Kreuzzug gegen das Morgenland teil. Auch Herzog Leopold von Österreich beteiligt sich am Kreuzzug, und als der Kaiser stirbt, bricht unter den Kreuzfahrern eine Fehde aus, da jeder die gefallenen Bastionen als Sieg über die Ungläubigen für sich beanspruchen möchte. Leopold zieht sich schließlich zurück und Robin Hood und seine Gefährten werden von den Muselmanen gefangen genommen.

Immer noch übt Prinz John Gewalt im ganzen Lande aus. Er erpresst die Armen und beutet sie mit immer höheren Steuern aus. Auch den ehemals wohlhabenden Bauern bleibt kaum noch was zu Essen. Die "Treuesten der Treuen", die Gruppe rund um Robin Hood, der bereits überall steckbrieflich gesucht wird, leben im Sherwood Forest. Sie nehmen von den Reichen und Wohlhabenden und geben den Armen, die so zu einem immer größer werdenden Heer stummer Verbündeter werden.

Nach vielen schmachvollen Jahren der Gefangenschaft im fernen Österreich war König Richard, den seine Untertanen Löwenherz nannten nach England zurückgekehrt. Seinen infamen Bruder, den Prinzregenten John, der das Volk mit eiserner Hand regiert und bis aufs Blut ausgesaugt hatte, jagt er vom Thron. Und Robin Hood, der mit seiner grünen Schar im Sherwood Wald für den geliebten König gekämpft hatte, schlägt er zum Ritter.

The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young learner as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.

Ancient Egyptian healer and scribe Sesha is ready for another role: spy.

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports listeners to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.

The world would be a better place if we all thought with our hearts. The more we grow up, the more we realize that there are many terrible things in this world, especially war. Things we can control. Wouldn't it be nice if there were no more wars, so that we could all be happy and spread love to everyone?

Providence, 1904. Un vascello nero come la notte attracca al porto ma nessun marinaio scende per rifocillarsi nei locali di Lower South, il quartiere malfamato della città. Alla locanda dello Swearing Parrot si comincia a vociferare che sia una nave fantasma e Julius, giovane e intraprendente figlio della cameriera, è deciso a vederci chiaro. Insieme all'inseparabile amica Vicky, non sospetta ancora di trovarsi di fronte al primo di una serie di oscuri eventi che nemmeno la più fervida immaginazione potrebbe concepire...

Alex Kaminsky, a fourteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant boy, suffers burns to his hands and face when his uncle’s farmhouse burns down. Rescued by a neighbour, he is tended to by a backcountry midwife before being taken in by a local postmaster. Determined to search for his older brother, an itinerant farm worker (and talented artist) who has disappeared, Alex follows Marco’s trail from a Vegreville farm to Edmonton. From there he is on the run from officials to Calgary and finally Banff, where he finds his brother close to death in the Castle Mountain Internment Camp.

Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family’s circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire…until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis has put them all in grave danger.

The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is a model of social tolerance and global thinking, the surrounding community turns out in the thousands to participate in what becomes a radical cultural hub of the city. Over the course of one hot summer the boys grapple to learn what a democracy is and to oversee its demands.

Finding Moon Rabbit is the story of one Japanese American family held at Heart Mountain. The story is told from the point of view of the family's youngest daughter, Koko. While Koko, her sister, and her mother are held at Heart Mountain, the father is incarcerated at a special prison camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where suspected Japanese American collaborators have been placed.