AFGANISTAN

KEY: jP = Picture Books; jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers; jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers; JF = 5th Grade and Up

Mongolia

updated 9/06


Picture Books


Beginning-to-Read Books


3rd - 4th Grade Books

Floca, Brian DINOSAURS AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
1920's. Describes the expeditions led by Roy Chapman Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Deset in Mongolia in an effort to unvoer dinosaur fossils.
2000 unpaged


5th Grade and UP

Wilson, Diane I RODE A HORSE OF MILK WHITE JADE
Oyuna tells her granddaughter the story of how love for her horse enabled her to win a race and bring good luck to her family living in Mongolia in 1339.
1998 232 p.

Wilson, Diane TO RIDE THE GODS' OWN STALLION
sequel to I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
After being taken as a slave to Nineveh, thirteen-year-old Soulai finds his life intertwined with that of the son of King Ashurbanipal and a magnificent stallion, and he gets a chance to prove that he is not a coward.
2000 276 p.