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Display: East Africa Ethiopia by Ann Heinrichs Children's Press, Nonfiction. Delves into the geography, culture, and history of Ethiopia. Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot by Jane Kurtz Pleasant Co., Fiction. After being kidnapped and brought to the emperor's palace in Gondar, Ethiopia, twelve-year-old Saba discovers that she and her brother are part of the emperor's desperate attempt to consolidate political power in the mid-1840's. Faraway Home by Jane Kurtz Illustrated by Earl B. Lewis Harcourt, Picture Book. Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there. Kenya By Sylvia McNair and Lynne Mansure Children's Press, Nonfiction. Describes the people, culture, history, and geography of Kenya. Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan Harper Collins, Fiction. Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is ...

Display: Share a Classic Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry   By Mildred Taylor Dial Press, 1976. Newbery. 276 p. A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. Island of the Blue Dolphins   By Scott O’Dell Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Newbery, 184 p The story of Karana, a 19th century Indian girl who becomes stranded on a remote island off the California coast.   Charlotte’s Web By E. B. White Harper Collins 1952, Fiction 184 p. Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. Little House in the Big Woods By Laura Ingalls Wilder Harper, 1953. Fiction. 237p. A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's sto...