18 books like Amina's blanket
Shattered
A journey that begins with adventure soon plunges into the depths of one of Africa's darkest moments. The Shattered Pearl is the gripping memoir of Sara L. Armstrong, an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Born in Chicago, Sara joined the Peace Corps in 1966, driven by a hunger for exploration and service. Her travels led her to Uganda, where love and destiny…
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Bang, bang, you're dead
A group of children find that while play war can be fun, real war is no fun at all.
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A history of glitter and blood
Sixteen-year-old Beckan and her friends are the only fairies brave enough to stay in Ferrum when war breaks out. Now there is tension between the immortal fairies, the subterranean gnomes, and the mysterious tightropers who arrived to liberate the fairies. But when Beckan's clan is forced to venture into the gnome underworld to survive, they find themselves tentatively forming unlikely…
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Fading Echoes
After the sharp-eyed Jay and the roaring Lion, peace will come on Dove's gentle wing.
As Jayfeather tackles his new responsibilities as the new sole medicine cat of ThunderClan, Lionblaze works on training his apprentice, Dovepaw, and tries to control his feelings for the gray-furred ThunderClan warrior, Cinderheart. Dovepaw continues to learn to control her powers, and to use them for the…
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Monkey wars
When rhesus monkeys are brutally massacred on the streets of Kolkata by a troop of power hungry langur monkeys, a young langur soldier's life is changed forever.
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The lighthouse war
Jamie and Ramsay figure out how to recharge the Salmon, the extraterrestrial device that allows them to travel through wormholes in space. Heading back to the planet Altair, Jamie discovers that the Witch Queen will do anything to get her hands on Jamie and the Salmon.
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The forty-third war
Set in an imaginary Central American country, this is the harrowing story of the effects of revolution on a 12-year-old boy. Twelve-year-old Uno is conscripted into the army of a revolutionary force in a Central American country that is fighting for its freedom.
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The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants
The vowels and the consonants fight each other until they realize that if they work together they can create marvelous poems, plays, and memoirs.
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Star wars
Masterfully drawn by artist Toshiki Kudo, this volume follows Luke Skywalker as he travels to meet Jedi Master Yoda while Han and Leia struggle to outrace the grip of Darth Vader. You wont want to miss out on this exquisite telling of the classic tale of betrayal and high-adventure.
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The dead of night
Australia has been invaded. Nothing is as it was. Six teenagers are living out their nightmare in the sanctuary of a hidden valley called Hell. Alone, they make their own rules, protect what is theirs, and struggle for courage and hope in a world changed forever. Seeking supplies, allies, and information, the friends make forays into enemy territory, drawing on nerve and resourcefulness they…
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A killing frost (Tomorrow #3)
The Australian YA adventure trilogy "comes to a thrill-a-minute conclusion as the teen heroes continue their guerrilla tactics against totalitarian foes" (Publishers Weekly).
 
It's been nearly six months since Australia was invaded and Ellie's life changed forever. Once normal teenagers, she and six of her friends are now trapped in a war zone where every moment is a struggle for survival.…
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Gulf
Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother's struggle with an apparent mental illness or "mystery of nature" which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi.
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Sword quest
Wind-voice the half-dove, formerly enslaved, is now free, and Maldeor, the one-winged archaeopteryx, hungers for supreme power.Can Wind-voice and his valiant companions—Ewingerale, the wood-pecker scribe; Stormac, the myna warrior; and Fleydur, the musician eagle—save the future of their world?An exciting prequel to the New York Times bestseller Swordbird.
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The planet thieves
On a routine voyage aboard an Academy spaceship, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and his fellow cadets are attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war with humanity for the last sixty years.
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All the Truth That's in Me
Eighteen-year-old Judith Finch gradually reveals the horror of her two-year disappearance in a stunning historical murder mystery and romance.
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Warriors of Camlann
Armed with their respective powers as warrior and magician, Dan and Ursula attempt to return to their own time through the Veil but instead find themselves in the turbulent era of the early Middle Ages in the service of Artorius Ursus, War Duke of Britain.
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Dinosaurs Love Underpants
Illustrations and rhyming text reveal the Mighty Underpants War as the true reason dinosaurs are extinct.
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Owl ninja
Sensei Ki-yaga leads Niya and the other students of the Cockroach Ryu on a journey to beg the feudal Emperor to stop war from breaking out between the mountain ryus, putting to the test the firm friendship and unusual skills of these physically-disabled samurai-in-training.
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