Gleam and Glow (Paperback)

from PotomacLibrary

Gleam and Glow is a picture book for elementary school aged children based on a true story. A family was forced to flee with only a few belongings because of their country's civil war. They were unable to bring their two goldfish, Gleam and Glow, so they set them loose in a lake next to their hou...

from engpunk77

I was delighted, as I so often am by Eve Bunting, to find that this was not a book about fish, but about a family who is needing to escape their homeland. The father joins an underground resistance group, and the rest of the family flees. They live in a refugee camp for some time and finally retu...

from bekstrom

This is an example of historical fiction which deals with families during the Boznian War. This is a imaginative tale of the past that reflects historic facts but has incorporated in a fictional plot. There is a lot of historical infomration in the story, but we don't know the specifics about the...

from RebeccaMichelet

A young boy tells the story of the events that took place after his father left to fight in a war. One day a man who had two fish came by and said he could no longer carry them, so he gave them to the boy and his sister. Soon after, the family had to leave their home because the war was getting c...

from bekstrom

This is an example of historical fiction which deals with families during the Boznian War. This is a imaginative tale of the past that reflects historic facts but has incorporated in a fictional plot. There is a lot of historical infomration in the story, but we don't know the specifics about the...