Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Starscape/Tom Doherty Associates Call No: REALISTIC F CRU Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a family tragedy results in the loss of both father and home, twelve-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila's North Cemetery, which is the largest shantytown of its kind in the Philippines. When her mother disappears mysteriously one day, Nora is left alone. With help from her best friend Jojo and the support of his kindhearted grandmother, Nora embarks on a journey riddled with danger in order to find her mom. Along the way she also rediscovers the compassion of the human spirit, the resilience of her community, and everlasting hope in the most unexpected places.
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[2014], Adolescent, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: JUV000000 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prisoners of the empire booksSummary Note: Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Young Adult FIC HAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When the Phillipine government takes over Culion, an island for people with leprosy, Ami is put in an orphanage on another island, where she finds a friend willing to help her return before her mother dies"--Provided by publisher.
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[2020]., Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F FAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Reeling from her father's coma and kissing a female teacher, seventeen-year-old Corazon suddenly finds herself in the Philippines with a half-brother she had never met.
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By Ribay, Randy[2019]., Adolescent, Kokila Call No: MYSTERY FIC RIB Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
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By Ribay, Randy[2020]., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Realistic Fic Ribay Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
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By Ribay, Randy[2019]., Adolescent, Kokila Call No: SUSPENSE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
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By Ribay, Randy[2019]., Kokila Call No: REALISTIC F RIB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
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By Ribay, RandyÃ2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: SUSPENSE Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
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2017., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
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2015., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.