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Seven-year-old Amihan lives in Cebu while her mother works far across the ocean. When the family fills a balikbayan box to send abroad, Amihan cannot decide what gift could possibly fit her whole heart inside — until she realizes the one thing her mother misses most is the sound of home in their own language. A tender picture story about distance, mother tongues, and gifts that travel further than they look.

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Seven-year-old Noa finds a cracked, curved old shofar in her grandmother's attic in Jerusalem — one that travelled from Morocco generations ago and has been silent ever since. Together they wander the late-summer alleys of the Old City searching for the last craftsman who still knows how to mend it, past pomegranate stalls and the smell of honey cake. When the shofar finally sounds, Noa understands that its call isn't only a noise — it's an invitation to begin again.

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An illustrated science course for curious readers: eleven-year-old Zofia from Kraków chases one question — how fast can a human actually travel on the ground? — from horse-drawn carriages and steam locomotives to the jet-powered car that broke the sound barrier on land, and on to the new hydrogen-powered record cars of today. Each chapter unpacks one idea: friction, drag, thrust, the speed of sound, shock waves, fuel chemistry and why hydrogen changes the equation. It ends where every reader sits — with the physics of a bicycle, a school bus and the question of what the next record will run on.

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When Europe's rivers fall to record lows, 12-year-old Kristýna walks onto the exposed bed of the Elbe in Děčín and finds a 'hunger stone' carved with warnings from 1616 — and further downstream, the ribs of a sunken wartime barge. Across ten chapters she learns how the water cycle works, why droughts empty a continent's rivers, how gauges and river archaeology let us read centuries of history from a stone, and what a drying river tells us about the century ahead. A science-and-history learning book that turns this summer's headlines into the best first lesson of the school year.

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On the last summer festival night in Kyoto, seven-year-old Hina finds a tiny fox cub lost among the lantern-lit stalls. Together they wander through goldfish scooping, taiko drums and shaved ice, following paper lanterns up the shrine steps to find the cub's family. Just as the first firework blooms over the river, Hina learns that the bravest thing a small person can do is help someone smaller.

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Eight-year-old Layla dreams of scoring the goal the whole world will remember, but the older boys in her Cairo neighbourhood never pass her the ball. When her worn-out football rolls away down the winding alleys of Old Cairo, she chases it past coppersmiths, kite-flying rooftops and the Nile at sunset — and discovers that the city itself has been cheering for her all along. A warm, funny story about a girl who stops waiting for permission and builds her own team.

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Seven-year-old Bintang wants to fly the biggest red-and-white kite in her Yogyakarta neighbourhood for Indonesia's Independence Day — but her kite keeps falling, and the competition is tomorrow. With help from her grandmother's old bamboo frame and half the kampung pitching in, she discovers that the secret to flying high is never doing it alone. A warm, funny story about gotong royong, courage, and the moment a whole street looks up at the same sky.

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On the rooftops of Old Delhi, eight-year-old Aarav finds a faded tricolour kite tucked inside his grandmother's old trunk — with a name and a date from 1947 stitched into its tail. Chasing the kite's story across Chandni Chowk's spice lanes, kite markets and the shadow of the Red Fort, he uncovers the tale of a girl who flew that same kite on India's very first Independence Day. By the fifteenth of August, Aarav knows exactly whose hands must hold the string this year.