James Rumford

• Apr-1998
• / General Fiction
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As his older brothers prepare for their great journey to a distant island, little Manu hides himself in their canoe, but when Manu is discovered, it is too late to turn around, and Manu must now help navigate the canoe to safety....

• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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Ibn Battuta was the traveler of his age� -- the fourteenth century, a time before Columbus when many believed the world to be flat. Like Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left behind an account of his own incredible journey from Morocco to China, from the step...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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According to Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, a Phoenician named Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. In the ancient myths, Cadmus was a hero who fought a ferocious monster and founded the city of Thebes. Cadmus was so famous that his deeds w...

• May-2003
• / General Fiction
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Who hasn’t gone to a birthday party and had “present envy”? Who hasn’t felt the pride of thinking of just the right gift, only to find out that someone else has thought of a better one? Who hasn’t had to learn the hard way that the greatest...

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
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Calabash Cat, a West African cat, sets out one day to find where the world ends. His adventures take him across a desert, grasslands, a jungle, and the ocean, until he finds what he is looking for. Illustrated in the style of the calabash engravers...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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Calabash Cat, a West African cat, sets out one day to find where the world ends. His adventures take him across a desert, grasslands, a jungle, and the ocean, until he finds what he is looking for.
Illustrated in the style of the calabash engrave...

• May-2004
• / General Fiction
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In this fictional account of the discovery of the Hawai-ian Islands, James Rumford takes us back more than fifteen hundred years to meet five Polynesian brothers who are about to explore a new world.
After a long journey to their new home, the yo...

• Jul-2006
• / General Fiction
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In A.D. 751, an old Chinese grandfather and his grandson are captured by the Great Sultan of Samarkand. Rather than be sold into slavery, they are granted seven days to prove Young Wu’s claim that they can “make clouds.” Grandfather and grandso...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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Out west, a lonesome prairie or two from anywhere, was a town called Sunshine. Sunshine was smaller'n most, bigger'n some, but cleaner and more civ'lized than 'em all. Sheriff John saw to that -- him and his 10-gallon hat. . . .Sheriff John is a lawm...

• Aug-2007
• / Epic Fantasy
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When sleep was at its deepest, night at its blackest, up from the mist-filled marsh came Grendel stalking . . .

Thus begins the battle between good and evil, for lying in wait and anxious to challenge the ogre Grendel is a young man, strong-wi...

• Mar-2008
• / Historical
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WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen.

Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city,...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world.
The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin.
This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese it was an omen o...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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TOUCHES OF AESOP AND KIPLING mark James Rumford’s fable about two unlikely rivals. Tiger says he saw the flower first, but Turtle disagrees. Through pages of glorious color, Tiger and Turtle continue their argument. They’re worthy opponents . ...

• Nov-2010
• / General Fiction
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It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road. "Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil?” "Will I learn to read?" But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard,...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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This is the story of a little rain, a blossoming mango and the power of a little boy's imagination. The story is told in words and richly-colored pastels that will take you to a small village in the African country of Chad. There you will feel the he...

• May-2012
• / Historical
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When news reaches a Hawaiian grandmother that Hawai‘i has been annexed by the United States in July 1898, she sets to work on a quilt to show her family that, in a time of change, there is one thing that must never be forgotten. In English and Hawa...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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Do you know how people used to navigate in the past? There are lots of rules you can follow to be a master navigator. This is an engaging book for upper primary readers. Proceeds from this sale benefit not for profit organisation Library For All, hel...

• Feb-2023
• / Romantic Suspense
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Dr. Antonio Silvano made a series of questionable decisions that not only impacted his life but the lives of his family and the very generation he was born into. As a young man, he elected to go to Vietnam as an enlisted soldier. While there, he fath...