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1) Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
The past Janeal thought had burned away is rising from the ashes. Years ago, the Gypsy Kumpania where Janeal Mikkado lived was attacked by outsiders. With her best friend about to be consumed by a fire, Janeal had two options: try to save her friend--at serious risk to her own life--or disappear with the million dollars that she had just discovered . . . But the past is quickly coming back to haunt her. Both the best friend and the boyfriend that...
Series
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Part one of this two part program presents a search for the "lost" gypsy tribes of Egypt. Travel up the Nile to the ancient town of Luxor in the shadow of the great pharoahs' tombs. Along the way, from the markets of ancient Cairo to the realm of Karnak, you meet gypsy dancing girls, acrobats, magicians, fortune-tellers, musicians and even mystics conducting an exorcism.
3) Gypsy Rizka
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a small town while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.
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Series
Kronos chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
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Daughters of England volume 12
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Romany Jake aroused passionate feelings in young Jessica Frenshaw but then came the murder, the scandal, the trial and, ultimately, Jake's exile. After Napoleon fell and England was safe again Jake returned and Jessica would finally discover who he really was and that he had come to claim what was rightfully his.
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Hathaways volume 2
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Kev Merripen has secretly longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death. Now a charming, ruthless suitor has his sights set on Win, and Kev must confront a grave secret about his past--or lose the only woman he's ever lived for.
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Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann-a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought furiously for the children she hoped to save. On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helenes worst fears come true when the police, under strict orders from the SS, demand that her children and husband, all of Romani heritage,...
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Description
"In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a 'nothing mama,' she struggles to find a place where she really belongs. For answers, Millie turns to the gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs...
12) Korkoro
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.
13) The Egypt Game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
16) The Holocaust in Romania: the destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the Antonescu regime, 1940-1944
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"In 1930, 757,000 Jews lived in Romania. They constituted the third-largest Jewish community in Europe. Today not more than 14,000 Jews live in Romania, most of them elderly. The record of the Holocaust in Romania includes many curious chapters of betrayal and support, but they have been largely unavailable until now. Radu Ioanid's account, based upon unparalleled access to previously secret East European government archives, is an unprecedented analysis...
18) The extra
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
A story of the Nazi genocide of the Romani people unfolds through the eyes of a Romani girl forced into service as an extra in a Leni Riefenstahl film.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Camped in her horse-drawn caravan at Buckshaw, a young Gypsy woman is charged with the abduction-and then the murder - of a local child, and Flavia must draw upon her encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons - and Gypsy lore - to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.