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All My Noble Dreams and Then What Happens by Gloria Whelan
Category: Fiction
Rosalind is caught between two worlds as Gandhi's nonviolent revolution takes hold in this standalone companion to "Small Acts of Amazing Courage." Rosalind inhabits two worlds in 1920s India. There is the world of her heritage--English to the core, with a strict father who is a major in the British In ...Show more
First Girl by Gloria Whelan
Category: Children's
When another girl is born to Chu Ju's mother, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. Chinese law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. Fourteen-year-old Chu Ju knows she cannot allow her sister to be sent to an orp ...Show more
Goodbye , Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
Category: Children's
"When Mai's family discovers that Vietnam government soldiers will soonapprehend her father and grandmother, the family slips away in the night. Theytrudge through the swamps of the Mekong Delta toward the sea. The gut-wrenchingtrip to Hong Kong is just another step toward a new life, which the familyev ...Show more
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Category: Fiction
Koly's parents have arranged a marriage for their only daughter and now, like many girls her age in India, she will leave her home forever. She longs to run away, but she knows that she cannot go against tradition. On her wedding day, Koly's fate is sealed. Caught up in a series of events that threaten ...Show more
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Africa is the only home Rachel Sheridan has ever known. But when influenza strikes down her missionary parents, she is left vulnerable prey to her family's wicked neighbors. Surrounded by greed and lies, Rachel is entangled in a criminal scheme and sent to England, where she is forced into a life of dec ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine by Gloria Whelan
Category: Children's
Prince Albert comes up with a royally creative solution to Queen Victoria's modesty concerns in this true story that reveals an overlooked splash of history. Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can't quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming sui ...Show more
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