switzerland

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switzerland

Bloomability

1998
Thirteen-year-old Dinnie finds her world expanding after her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school.

Behind the wheel

2010
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which a gambling syndicate tries to influence the outcome of a Swiss auto race.

Across many mountains

a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom
2012
Author Yangzom Brauen shares details about her life and the lives of her mother and grandmother, who lived in Tibet during Chinese rule and were forced to find ways to preserve their identity and culture while in exile.

Heidi

2002
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Switzerland

2002
Describes the landscape, culture, food, animals, sports, and holidays of Switzerland.

The Brain full of holes

2010
Having moved to Switzerland, thirteen-year-old Sheldon and his new stepbrother Theo ("The Brain") Brain investigate a mystery involving particle physics, Swiss cheese, a missing truck driver, and a carnivorous cuckoo clock.

Count Karlstein

1998
In the mountains of Switzerland, the wicked Count Karlstein plots to abandon his two nieces in a hunting lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly hounds.

Barry

2013
Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.

Dreams of significant girls

2011
In the 1970s, a teenaged Iranian princess, a German-Canadian girl, and a Cuban-Jewish girl from New York City become friends when they spend three summers at a Swiss boarding school.

Jet set

2009
Lucy Peterson, the daughter of a career Army man, has always been devoted to academics and tennis, but when her tennis ability wins her a scholarship to an elite Swiss boarding school, distractions abound and her hardest task is telling friend from foe.

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