Carolyn Marsden

• Sep-2003
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• Apr-2004
• / General Fiction
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Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun Ma and Kun Pa announce that Ti...

• Feb-2006
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"A fine novel for early independent readers that conveys lots of information about Thailand and making friends." --  New York Times Book Review

In Thailand she was named Oy, but here in America the teachers call her Olivia. Other things are ...

• Mar-2006
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Like THE GOLD-THREADED DRESS, Carolyn Marsden’s acclaimed first novel, this sensitive and finely crafted sequel explores what it takes to be a true friend, and still be true to yourself.

Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the ba...

• Oct-2006
• / Fantasy
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A Chinese-American girl longs for friendship with a classmate adopted from China in this subtle, insightful middle-grade novel.

Ginny is sure the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend. After all, Stephanie is Chinese, just...

• Feb-2007
• / Historical
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Every day nine-year-old Binh sells fruit and sodas to the girls whose families can afford to send them to school, and every night she returns to her one-room home to share a simple meal with her family. Everything changes, however, when her grandmoth...

• May-2007
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Eleven-year-old Gregory and his family had to leave the Navajo reservation at Bird Springs -- the only home they've ever known -- and move to a motel in Tucson, Arizona. Gregory misses his absent father, but he likes school, particularly art class wi...

• Jun-2007
• / General Fiction
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When Mina, a self-professed "girlie-girl," discovers that she excels at track, her friends are as surprised as she is, especially competitive Ruth. Even more surprising is the way running seems to lift Mina up and make her happy. When Coach chooses h...

• Feb-2008
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Every day, Tinh heads out to sea with his father to catch fish for their family and the market. While he may miss his simple life, flying kites with other children on the beach, Tinh is proud to work alongside Ba. Then a fierce storm strikes, and Ba ...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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Set in the volatile Rhodesia of the 1960s, this dramatic story, narrated from alternating viewpoints, tells of an interracial friendship tested.

Like his best friend, Blessing -- a Shona boy whose father is his church’s pastor -- twelve-...

• Mar-2010
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Hopes of adoption test the friendship of two girls -- one biracial -- in a lyrical novel touching on themes of identity and the meaning of home. Pina and Susanna. Susanna and Pina. For as long as they've lived at the Istituto di Gesu Bambino ...

• Oct-2011
• / Historical
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An ancient calendar comes to an end in 2012 -- and many predict the world will end with it. Can one Mayan girl make a difference? Rosalba is a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in rural Mexico. Like her mother and grandmother, she weaves stories of...

• Feb-2012
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Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood -- when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street. War has been the backdrop of their young lives. And now Iraq isn't just ...

• Oct-2012
• / Historical
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In 1960s Czechoslovakia, Patrik participates in and rebels against the communist regime, knowing that anyone could become an enemy in the blink of an eye. Fourteen-year-old Patrik rebels against the communist regime in small ways whenever he gets ...