A collection of short stories. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
... racial and class hierarchies undermined any pretense of sisterhood. While the godparent relationship could foster ties between colonists and Native Americans, elites # 4 & From Out of the Shadows.
What emerges from the book is a portrait of a distinctive culture in America that has slowly gathered strength in the last 95 years.
In 1890, Cecil John Rhodes, the gold-hunting leader of the British South Africa Company (BSAC), occupied northern Zimbabwe accompanied by a private army. When very little gold materialized and the sale of land and agriculture proved ...
There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host family.
From Out of the Shadows is about a 1940's government experiment gone wrong.
Out of the Shadows
And this is to say nothing of the ongoing trauma wrought by AIDS, which is all too often relegated to history.
With art inspired by Reiniger’s cut-paper style and a text that uses a fairytale motif that mimics her movies, Out of the Shadows is a sweeping tribute to one of most important figures of animation, whose influence still resonates today.
I have written these stories for readers like you, with family histories of your own, perhaps with faded photographs to go along with them.
For fans of Small Spaces, Coraline, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and James Howe's Bunnicula classics comes the first book in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series.