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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with her best friend, Bakti, even if it means putting up with her snooty classmate, Violet. Then the Japanese army invades-and as war erupts in the Dutch East Indies, Emmy’s world falls apart. When...
2) Rescued
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.
3) Sea
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
Despite recurring nightmares about her mother's death and her own fear of flying, fifteen-year-old Sienna accepts her father's birthday gift to fly to Indonesia with his team of disaster relief workers to help victims of a recent tsunami, never suspecting that this experience will change her life forever.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"A 14-year-old girl living in the Jakarta slums who longs to be a writer sees an opportunity to raise money for school fees when she survives a minibus accident and the locals begin saying she has magical good luck. But when the crowd turns against her and she discovers her father's plan to marry her off to an older man, she must summon courage and conviction to write her own story."--
Author
Series
Wild rescue volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Twins Ben and Zoe are recruited by their mysterious uncle Dr. Stephen Fisher, a famous zoologist, to rescue a Sumatran tiger from poachers.
6) Berani
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Perspectives of two Indonesian middle-schoolers and a caged orangutan entwine. Wealthy Malia faces the consequences of disobediently circulating an anti-palm-oil petition at her school, resulting in suspensions for herself, her best friend, and her teacher. Ari, fortunate to be plucked from his impoverished village to attend school and compete in chess tournaments, helps the uncle who is hosting him but worries about Ginger Juice, the orangutan his...