New Releases by James Howe

Il a été enlevé par son propre gouvernement pour être transformé en soldat. Il se battra pour sa liberté, même si cela doit lui coûter la vie. Yikealo était un jeune père lorsque son gouvernement l'a arrêté en pleine rue dans sa ville natale et l'a envoyé dans l'un des endroits les plus dangereux de la planète pour y apprendre à tuer. Il lui faudrait des années de sacrifices difficiles et souvent déchirants pour retrouver sa liberté... et plus d'une décennie d'incertitude avant d'avoir une chance de revoir sa famille. « Quant aux murs et aux clôtures qui pourraient nous retenir, il n'y en a pas ici. Nous sommes libres de partir si nous le souhaitons, mais il n'y a nulle part où aller et la mort est presque certaine pour quiconque tenterait de s'enfuir. » Yikealo Neab est né au cœur d'un conflit sanglant déclenché par ses grands-parents et a grandi en voyant ce même conflit emporter ses amis et menacer ses enfants. Après avoir été enrôlé de force et envoyé dans l'un des endroits les plus inhospitaliers de la planète, la dépression de Danakil, où la chaleur extrême et les vieilles mines antipersonnel russes ne sont pas les seuls dangers mortels, il doit faire face à la possibilité bien réelle que, s'il parvient à survivre, il ne revoie peut-être jamais sa famille. « Je ne grandirai pas vers le bas » est un récit poignant de lutte et de détermination, de perte et d'exil… et, en fin de compte, de rédemption. L'histoire de Yikealo est un puissant témoignage de la force de l'esprit humain face à l'adversité, en particulier celle des personnes vivant sous la violence et l'oppression et de celles qui fuient les régimes qui les utilisent pour asseoir leur pouvoir. Ce livre offre aux étudiants en histoire contemporaine de l'Afrique de l'Est un aperçu exceptionnellement rare du régime extrêmement secret et brutalement répressif connu sous le nom de « Royaume ermite d'Afrique ». C'est aussi un cadeau et une source d'inspiration pour tous ceux qui cherchent la preuve que la foi et la persévérance peuvent surmonter même les obstacles les plus insurmontables. « Je ne grandirai pas vers le bas » fait partie de la collection « Rêves de liberté », un recueil d'histoires de résilience provenant d'Érythrée, cette petite nation déchirée par la guerre, surnommée la Corée du Nord de l'Afrique.

Si vous deviez choisir, en seriez-vous capable ? Alors que la guerre fait rage dans sa patrie bien-aimée et que son mari est enrôlé de force pour y combattre, une jeune mère est confrontée à la décision la plus terrifiante de sa vie : laquelle de ses deux précieuses filles sauver... et laquelle abandonner. C'est l'histoire du combat héroïque d'une mère pour arracher sa famille aux griffes de l'incertitude et de l'oppression. Il existe un proverbe dans ma langue maternelle, le tigrinya, qui est à la fois un avertissement et une mise en garde. Il dit ceci : Haki tseraba mot keraba. Cela signifie : Si tu dis la vérité, tu te feras beaucoup d'ennemis. Eh bien, qu'ils viennent ! Qu'ils voient... Inlassable. D'origine érythréenne, Wudasie Nayzgi a grandi au cœur de l'Éthiopie voisine, un pays qui, pendant des générations après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a refusé l'indépendance à son peuple. Après une guerre sanglante de 30 ans qui met fin au règne violent du dictateur éthiopien Haïlé Sélassié, Wudasie retourne sur la terre de ses ancêtres, étrangère en quête de ses racines et d'une chance de fonder une famille. Pendant un temps, ses rêves semblent à portée de main. Mais bientôt, de nouvelles menaces surgissent, venant d'anciens et de nouveaux ennemis. Son mari est enlevé en pleine rue et soumis à un entraînement brutal pour combattre dans une guerre que personne ne désire, tandis que sa fille aînée est diagnostiquée avec une malformation cardiaque potentiellement mortelle. Les frontières étant hermétiquement fermées, le gouvernement, de plus en plus paranoïaque, recourant toujours davantage à la violence et à la répression, et les soins médicaux étant indisponibles dans le pays, sa seule option pour sauver la vie de sa fille pourrait bien s'avérer irréalisable : implorer la clémence. Mais même si le gouvernement l'autorise à partir – une possibilité infime – cela pourrait bien briser plus de vies qu'en sauver. « Inlassable » est le récit poignant d'une épouse et mère qui a refusé de céder et a défié l'un des régimes les plus corrompus et meurtriers au monde. Après des décennies de luttes et de sacrifices, elle a finalement trouvé la paix et la rédemption dans son nouveau pays : les États-Unis. Une histoire bouleversante et intemporelle, au dénouement inspirant, qui célèbre la force, la détermination et l'héroïsme des femmes du monde entier. « Inlassable » fait partie de la collection « Rêves de liberté », des récits de résilience venus d'Érythrée, cette petite nation déchirée par la guerre, surnommée la Corée du Nord de l'Afrique.

From a bestselling and award-winning team comes a moving, gorgeously illustrated picture-book biography of one of the greatest cellists of all-time, Yo-Yo Ma, and his lifelong passion for using music to unite people in harmony and joy "I've been asking myself all my life, 'What is the purpose of music?'" -Yo-Yo Ma At a young age, Yo-Yo Ma discovered a remarkable gift for the cello, playing Bach from memory by age four. His technique was far beyond his years, but even as he grew and became a world-class musician--studying at Juilliard, performing at Carnegie Hall at a young age, even playing on television before the president of the United States--he wanted to use his gift for something deeper, something bigger. As he asked question after question, trying to understand his place in the world, he discovered something that every culture has in common: music. Ma decided that he would spend his life not only performing for others, but learning from other cultures' musical traditions and finding ways to unite people. Even as he dedicated himself to humanitarian work around the world, Ma also dedicated himself to teaching a new generation of young cellists to play with their whole hearts, bodies, and souls, like he does--how to find the music inside themselves. From James Howe, bestselling author of Bunnicula, and Jack Wong, award-winning author/illustrator of When You Can Swim, comes the story of legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who was special not only because of his unmatched talent but also his curious mind and compassionate heart. Powerfully told and stunningly illustrated, this biography will inspire readers to discover the gifts inside us all. Back matter includes an author's and an illustrator's note, a timeline of Ma's life, and resources to learn more about his life and work.

From James Howe, the bestselling author of Bunnicula, comes a beautiful picture book story about looking, observing, and finding wonder in the things that we walk right past every day—featuring full-color illustrations by Sakika Kikuchi. Every morning, Milo goes walking with his mother. There are so many things to see. While Milo was sleeping, the rain left a puddle for him to find. “Hello, Milo,” he says to the boy in the puddle. When Milo listens closely, he hears bees. They have a lot to say. The tree in the park looks sad today. “It’s okay,” Milo whispers. “I will see you tomorrow and you will be happy.” Each day is full of possibilities when Milo goes walking: new things to observe, old things to see in a new way, the magical “maybes” of his imagination—and what we might find tomorrow.

As war rages in her beloved homeland and her husband is taken away to fight in it, a young mother faces the most difficult decision of her life -- which of her two precious daughters can she save... and which must she sacrifice. This is the story of one mother’s heroic struggle to rescue her family from the clutches of uncertainty and oppression. There is a proverb in my native Tigrinya language, both warning and admonishment. It goes like this: Haki tseraba mot keraba. It means: If you speak the truth, you will gather many enemies. Well, I say let them come. Let them see how the pain they have inflicted has made me who I am: Relentless. Eritrean by blood, Wudasie Nayzgi was raised deep in the heart of neighboring Ethiopia, a nation that for generations after the Second World War refused her people their independence. After a bloody 30-year war ends the violent reign of brutal Ethiopian dictator Emperor Haile Selassie, Wudasie returns to her ancestral homeland, a stranger in search of her roots and a chance to raise a family. For a while, it seems her dreams are within reach. But soon, new threats arise, coming from old enemies, as well as new. Her husband is forcibly taken off the street to fight another war, and her oldest daughter is diagnosed with a life-threatening heart defect. With the borders sealed shut, an increasingly paranoid government resorting ever more to violence and suppression, and medical treatment unavailable in-country, her only remaining option to save her daughter’s life might not be so viable after all. For even if the government allows her to leave, doing so could end up shattering more lives than it saves. Relentless is the powerful memoir of a wife and mother who refused to compromise and instead defied one of the world’s most corrupt and murderous regimes, and after decades of personal struggle and sacrifice finally found peace and redemption. A heartbreaking story for the ages with an inspiring outcome that celebrates the strength, determination, and heroism of women everywhere. Relentless is part of the Dreams of Freedom collection, stories of resilience from Eritrea, the small war-torn nation known as the North Korea of Africa.

A bind-up of the fantastically scary and classic third and fourth book in the Bunnicularseries! HARE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW! #3 TheCelery Stalks at Midnight Bunnicula is missing! Chester is convinced all the world's vegetables are in danger of being drained of their life juices and turned into zombies. Soon he has Harold and Howie running around sticking toothpicks through hearts of lettuce and any other veggie in sight. Of course, Chester has been known to be wrong before...but you can never be too careful when there's a vampire bunny at large! THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.... #4 Nighty Nightmare Are Harold, Howie, and Chester simply lost in the woods with Dawg, their strange new friend? Or have they been lured away from their campsite intentionally, leaving the Monroes at the mercy of evil spirits with mayhem on their minds? Lulling Dawg to sleep with a bedtime story may be their only hope of escaping - but is the hare-raising tale of the origins of Bunnicula, the vampire bunny, really a bedtime story? The return of the global bestselling classic Read the first two stories in Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery and Howliday Inn 9780702303098 - a 40th anniversaryedition!

"Written especially for the education and protection of our young men and women about to enter the business or professional world; and a warning to our produce growers and provision packers; tricks of the manipulator exposed; how speculators are also buncoed and fleeced." * * * * From the AUTHOR'S PREFACE Request -- I ask my readers to thoroughly absorb the Preface before reading the following Chapters. This as an integral part and necessary, in order to fully appreciate the salient points of the main body of the book. Some thirty-five years ago, I was led, somewhat by my own cupidity, to invest in what! I supposed would render a good profit. The sequel was as follows. There was no profit rendered, and the principal, disappeared like "Ships that pass in the night." With a strong suspicion that there was a "Negro in the woodpile," and believing that we had been buncoed; with my post graduate university study and tutoring work, I casually took up the study of speculation, that of the most rabid nature, more as a hobby than anything else; endeavoring to ascertain where my money went, how it reached its destination and who received it. Intermittently, for over thirty years, these studies have been going on; and having learned something that will be of great benefit to my brother and sister, it now becomes my duty to present it to them, and in the following pages will be found a summary which is given with the hope that the information contained will serve as a protection for our young men, and young women as well, about to enter actively into a business or professional life....

Pinky and Rex is the perfect series for early readers learning to read and navigate friendships! Pinky really wants to be an actor and is sure he''ll get the lead in the school play. Rex, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with being on stage. She''s afraid she''ll forget her lines—or worse. Everything changes when Pinky convinces Rex to go with him to the tryouts. Will Pinky and Rex still be best friends when the show is over?

Pinky''s favorite color is pink, and his best friend, Rex, is a girl. Kevin, the third-grade bully, says that makes Pinky a sissy. Deep down, Pinky thinks Kevin is wrong, but he''s still worried. Does Pinky have to give up his favorite things, and worse, does he have to give up his best friend?

Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages! "Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, and Francesca Lia Block tell young readers stories drawn from their own childhood memories. The authors have also contributed notes about why they chose particular memories to write about and what in their lives led them to be writers. In this way, the extraordinary stories in When I Was Your Age bear witness to the origins of a writer’s art--and honor the courage, tenderness, and fragility of children.

Horace and Morris, but mostly Dolores, are back again for another uproarious adventure. When the three best friends decide to try out for the school chorus together, they''re shocked when Dolores (who can only sing notes that no one has ever heard before) is the only one who doesn''t make the cut. After all, they''ve always done everything together. Once Horace and Morris start chorus practice, they''re so busy that they don''t have time to go exploring or climb trees with Dolores anymore. Feeling left out and alone, Dolores decides to take matters into her own hands. But can she prove to Moustro Provolone that there''s a place for every kind of voice in the chorus?

Horace, Morris, and Dolores do everything together and know that they will be Friends Forever...until one day, when Horace and Morris become part of an exclusive boys'' club and Dolores finds herself left out. Soon, she, too, finds her own club, where no boys are allowed and girls are supposed to have fun doing girl stuff. But after a while, Horace and Morris and Dolores realize they aren''t happy at all doing what everyone in their clubs seems to enjoy. They miss each other. Is it too late to be friends again? Join these three charming mouse friends as they learn to do what they like, rather than what others say they should like.

This wry tale of two brothers who amiably try to outdo each other by creating jumbo-size imaginary friends makes a great read-aloud and is a follow-up to There’s a Monster Under My Bed.

Something is under Simon’s bed. He can hear it breathing. Is it a monster? Simon has to find out. He shines a flashlight under the bed, to discover that something is hiding there—but what? This warm and humorous story will delight any child who has ever envisioned monsters lurking in the bedtime darkness.

When Otter falls in love with his food source, a fish named Myrtle, he must decide whether to follow the way of the otter or the way of his heart.

Cafeteria food may be hazardous to your health. Poor Milo Groot -- he's sprawled on the cafeteria floor, his cracked glasses inches away from his white face. Could it be the apple chili dogs? Could it be poison? Kids at the middle school are dropping like flies, and Sebastian Barth suspects there's something fishier than tuna dreamboats behind the epidemic. The trouble is, too many cooks have had the chance to spoil the stew. Sebastian finds out. At least he thinks he does, but he soon discovers that whipping up a dramatic disclosure without all the ingredients is a recipe for disaster.

An overnight camping trip! Not Harold's idea of fun. Too many mosquitoes, ticks and cockleburs. But when the Monroe family set out, their faithful dog Harold was with them, mostly because he remembered that camping could also bring s'mores and toasted marshmallows. Howie, the other family dog, and Chester the cat were also included in the trip. Only Chester thought the idea was completely insane. The woods, he informed Harold, were not only full of cockleburs and ticks, but of spirits, evil spirits who prey on the innocent. And on this, the worst night of the year -- St. George's Eve, when all spirits are set loose -- who knew what could happen. What Harold knew was that Chester was a well read, over-stimulated cat, full of weird ideas. He did not take Chester's worries too seriously. He had s'more to think about. But then, the Monroes set up camp near two strange men and their even stranger dog, and things began to happen that made even Harold wonder. Could Chester be right? This begins a long night, full of terrors and alarms, full of Chester's horrifying tale of how Bunnicula, the vampire bunny, was born and came to America, full of storms and a total sense of danger; and at the end came surprises that even Chester could not have predicted. Once again, the Monroe family may be the victims of evil forces or only of Chester's strange imagination. But whichever, the result is suspenseful and very, very funny.

A SMALL BEAR WITH BIG ADVENTURES It's a boring, rainy afternoon -- the perfect time for Teddy Bear to share his scrapbook of memories with the little girls who owns him. And what memories Teddy Bear has! He's ridden a bucking bronco in the rodeo, been an ace crime reporter -- he's even starred in a movie! No wonder he's a bit worn and shabby. For an ordinary little girl with flat brown hair, it's hard to imagine being important to someone with Teddy's glamorous past. But there's always room in Teddy's life -- and his scrapbook -- for someone who loves him just the way he is.

CHESTER, the cat, Harold, the dog, Bunnicula, the vampire (?) rabbit, and Howie, the wirehaired dachshund puppy, return in this sequel to Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery and Howliday Inn to ask the question: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of lettuce? Chester has just finished retelling the tale of Bunnicula to Howie, who has just joined the Monroe family, when he discovers that Bunnicula is missing from his cage. Chester stays up all night worrying. What becomes of the vegetables Bunnicula attacks (for he is after all a vegetarian vampire)? Do they become vampire veggies serving their master's evil ways? Certain that the town is crawling with killer parsnips and homicidal heads of lettuce, Chester sets out with Harold and Howie and a box of toothpicks for spearing the little devils through the heart. En route to finding Bunnicula, driving tiny stakes through whatever white vegetables lie in their paths and thereby saving the town of Centerville, the threesome have more than their share of adventures, including an encounter with an ill-tempered white cat named Snowball and an unexpected trip to the town dump. Finally the strange actions of everyone in town, including Toby and Pete Monroe, convince Chester that he may be too late, that Bunnicula and his minion vegetables may have taken over the town. Chester and his merry band race to save what souls they can. But, of course, Chester has been known to be wrong before.

"Let's just say the matter is under control," Chester slyly tells his pals Harold and Howie. But what on earth does he mean? It seems that Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit, is back to his old ways -- or so Chester thinks, having found pale vegetables drained of their juices scattered about the Monroe family kitchen. And now, once and for all, Chester is determined to save the world from this threat. But why has Bunnicula -- so frisky just a short time ago -- been so listless and tired of late? Is this part of Chester's scheme? Can Harold let Chester get away with hurting an innocent bunny, no matter what his harebrained suspicions are? It is not long before the Monroes notice Bunnicula's condition and rush him to the vet, and then the chase is on, ending up with a dramatic confrontation in a most unusual (and dangerous!) location.

Joe Bunch breaks down his life—and his secrets—for a school assignment in this second book of the funny, heartfelt, and beloved Misfits series by Bunnicula author James Howe. What can I say? I’m a total original. Joe may only be twelve-going-on-thirteen, but he’s known who he is from the time he was a little kid tottering around in his mother’s high heels. Now in the seventh grade, he wears green high tops with pink trim, has a (secret) boyfriend, and tells it all from A to Z in the alphabiography assigned by his favorite teacher. The thing is, some of it is seriously private. It’s one thing for Mr. Daly to read it, but what if it falls into the wrong hands? Will he be teased forever about those high heels…and even worse, what will happen if his secret boyfriend is no longer a secret?

Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That''s how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make ''em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there''s one more kid out there who''s going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like us. Skeezie, Addie, Joe, and Bobby -- they''ve been friends forever. They laugh together, have lunch together, and get together once a week at the Candy Kitchen to eat ice cream and talk about important issues. Life isn''t always fair, but at least they have each other -- and all they really want to do is survive the seventh grade. That turns out to be more of a challenge than any of them had anticipated. Starting with Addie''s refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and her insistence on creating a new political party to run for student council, the Gang of Five is in for the ride of their lives. Along the way they will learn about politics and popularity, love and loss, and what it means to be a misfit. After years of getting by, they are given the chance to stand up and be seen -- not as the one-word jokes their classmates have tried to reduce them to, but as the full, complicated human beings they are just beginning to discover they truly are.

Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.

Houndsley likes canoeing and his friend Catina likes bicycling, but each has to help the other learn to enjoy these activities in order to do them together.

The Kuna of Panama, today one of the best known indigenous peoples of Latin America, moved over the course of the twentieth century from orality and isolation towards literacy and an active engagement with the nation and the world. Recognizing the fascination their culture has held for many outsiders, Kuna intellectuals and villagers have collaborated actively with foreign anthropologists to counter anti-Indian prejudice with positive accounts of their people, thus becoming the agents as well as subjects of ethnography. One team of chiefs and secretaries, in particular, independently produced a series of historical and cultural texts, later published in Sweden, that today still constitute the foundation of Kuna ethnography. As a study of the political uses of literacy, of western representation and indigenous counter-representation, and of the ambivalent inter-cultural dialogue at the heart of ethnography, Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers addresses key issues in contemporary anthropology. It is the story of an extended ethnographic encounter, one involving hundreds of active participants on both sides and continuing today.

Insecure about his personal identity and lacking in self-esteem, a little cricket living at Swampswallow Pond dreams of metamorphosis into a magnificent butterfly

In their fifth adventure, the Monroe family pets are once again boarded at the Chateau Bow-Bow when the Monroes go on vacation. The kennel's creepy goings-on continue, but this time it appears that murder may have been added to the services. Illustrations.

When Toby Monroe has a birthday party, his pets' curiosity is aroused by seven strange suitcases which they investigate, with surprising consequences.

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Harold, Chester, and Howie have a harrowing Halloween night worrying about Bunnicula as well as about a witch who comes into the house.