by Joanne | Jan 20, 2012 | Fantasy
Darek is envious of his brother. After all, Clep is only twelve, a mere three years older than he is. It is unfair that Darek has to wait so long to be able to go on a dragonquest of his own. When Clep returns with a Great Blue, the “largest and fiercest of...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2012 | Picture Book
Hershel has been blind since he was a small child. However, his lack of eyesight does not stop him from attending school, playing by the riverbank (where he delights in creating tunnels and caves in the mud), catching frogs, and helping his widowed mother. As Purim...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Yonatan is eleven years old; old enough, in his opinion, for his parents to stop calling him Yoni and to be treated with more respect. But there are bigger concerns facing Yonatan, his family, and the entire city of Jerusalem. Sancheriv, the evil king of Ashur, is...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Jessie lives with her grandmother in an East European village. Her life is a full and happy one. She sits in at the boys’ lessons with the rabbi (and thus knows how to read and write). She learns how to sew lace. ‘”Now, you read, Grandmother, and copy my good...
by Joanne | Jan 20, 2012 | Fantasy
While sixteen-year-old Drew watches as a monster breaks into his house and kills his mother, his own rage builds and his body goes through a strange transformation that has never happened before. When his father comes home and sees Drew he accuses him of killing his...
