Author : Jennifer Rozines Roy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054478507X
For forty-two days in 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil and his family struggle to survive as Basra, Iraq, is bombed by the United States and its allies.
Author : Jennifer Roy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1328830241
At the start of 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein went to war with thirty-four nations led by the United States. Over the next forty-three days, Ali and his family survived bombings, food shortages, and constant fear. Ali and his brothers played soccer on the abandoned streets of their Basra neighborhood, wondering when or if their medic father would return from the war front. Cinematic, accessible, and timely, this is the story of one ordinary kid’s view of life during war.
Author : Jennifer Rozines Roy
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biographical fiction
ISBN : 9781845079086
In 1939, the Germans invaded the town of Lodz, Poland, and moved the Jewish population into a small part of the city called a ghetto. As the war progressed, 270,000 people were forced to settle in the ghetto under impossible conditions. At the end of the war, there were 800 survivors. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. This is the story of Sylvia Perlmutter, one of the twelve.
Author : Jennifer Rozines Roy
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761419990
Reinforces both pattern identification and reading skills, stimulates critical thinking, and provides students with an understanding of math in the real world.
Author : Trish Doller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481479881
When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.
Author : Jennifer Rozines Roy
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761457169
A boy with Asperger's Syndrome proves he's a genius.
Author : Tom Palmer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1781129762
Tom Palmer celebrates the unsung athletic heroes of the Armistice in a powerful tale of the fell-running messengers on the front-line of war, publishing for the centenary anniversary of the end of WWI.
Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316247812
"Amira, look at me," Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers."The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come-- run." Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities. And maybe old enough to go to school in Nyala-- Amira's one true dream. But life in her peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when the Janjaweed arrive. The terrifying attackers ravage the town and unleash unspeakable horrors. After she loses nearly everything, Amira needs to dig deep within herself to find the strength to make the long journey-- on foot-- to safety at a refugee camp. Her days are tough at the camp, until the gift of a simple red pencil opens her mind-- and all kinds of possibilities. New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney's powerful verse and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Shane W. Evans's breathtaking illustrations combine to tell an inspiring tale of one girl's triumph against all odds.
Author : Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 110115246X
Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot--they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to him--is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?
Author : Alice Mead
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2007-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374706859
For as long as thirteen-year-old Azad can remember, the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he lives in the predominantly Kurdish town of Sardasht, has been at war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and his country has been a harsh society full of spies, secrets, and "disappearances." Still, most of the time Azad manages to live a normal life, hanging out at the bakery next door, going to school with his friend Hiwa, playing sports, and taking care of his parrot. Then Azad learns that his town may soon become a target for Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Now more than ever, Azad feels torn between his divorced parents and his conflicting desires to remain in his home or escape. His father is somehow connected to the police and is rooted in the town. His mother may be part of the insurgency, yet is ready to flee. How can Azad make the choice? The story of how one boy's world was turned upside down in 1987 Iran is a timely and memorable introduction to the conflicts in the Middle East.
