Sami and the Time of the Troubles

Sami and the Time of the Troubles PDF Author: Florence Parry Heide
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395559642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street.

Sami and the Time of the Troubles

Sami and the Time of the Troubles PDF Author: Florence Parry Heide
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395559642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street.

The Silence Seeker

The Silence Seeker PDF Author: Ben Morley
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241582652
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
When a new family moves in next door, Joe's mum explains that they are asylum seekers. Joe hears that they are silence seekers, especially as Mum adds that they need peace and quiet. When he sees a young boy from the family sitting disconsolately on the steps, Joe decides to help him find a quiet place in the noisy and chaotic city. A simple, moving story which is the perfect way to gently open discussion around the refugee crisis.

Banana Blitz

Banana Blitz PDF Author: Florence Parry Heide
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780553152586
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
Television and candy bar addict Jonah, arriving at Fairlee School, thinks his problems will be over if he can just win the prize offered by the American Banana Institute for watching its commercials.

Day of Ahmed's Secret

Day of Ahmed's Secret PDF Author: Florence H. Parry
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688140238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
As Ahmed delivers bottles of propane gas, he treasures a special secret he can't wait to share with his family. "Skillfully, the authors use the secret to sustain suspense...and to highlight the significance of Ahmed's poignant joy in his accomplishment....A handsome, affectionate book."--Kirkus Reviews.

One Thousand Roads to Mecca

One Thousand Roads to Mecca PDF Author: Michael Wolfe
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192203
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 701

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Book Description
“Wolfe does an exemplary job of detailing the ceremonies performed at Mecca and the reasons behind them . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal, starred review This updated and expanded edition of One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant travel writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries—including two new contemporary narratives—creating a comprehensive, multifaceted literary portrait of the enduring tradition. Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a city forbidden to non-Muslims. These very different literary traditions form distinct impressions of a spirited conversation in which Mecca is the common destination and Islam the common subject of inquiry. Along with an introduction by Reza Aslan, featured writers include Ibn Battuta, J. L. Burckhardt, Sir Richard Burton, the Begum of Bhopal, John F. Keane, Winifred Stegar, Muhammad Asad, Lady Evelyn Cobbald, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Malcolm X. One Thousand Roads to Mecca is a historically, geographically, and ethnically diverse collection of travel writing that adds substantially to the literature of Islam and the West. “Serves as an excellent introduction to a religion, people, culture, and philosophy.” —Santa Cruz Sentinel

Sitti's Secrets

Sitti's Secrets PDF Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 9780689817069
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance. Mona’s grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. The couldn’t speak each other’s language, so they made up their own. They learned about each other’s worlds, and they discovered each other’s secrets. Then it was time for Mona to go back home, back to the other side of the earth. But even though there were millions of miles and millions of people between them, they remained true neighbors forever.

The Four False Weapons

The Four False Weapons PDF Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480472484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Book Description
Famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin comes out of retirement to solve a crime of passion in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s sophisticated and surprising novel London lawyer Richard Curtis is sent to Paris by one of the firm’s senior partners to handle a delicate case. Revelations about playboy Ralph Douglas’s former mistress, the stunning redhead Rose Klonec, threaten Douglas’s impending marriage. But upon Curtis’s arrival in Paris, a body is discovered alongside not one but four different murder weapons. To save his client from the gallows, Curtis turns to the brilliant Monsieur Bencolin. Only this suave, devilish detective is ideally suited to unravel a case this strange with so many contradictory clues and passionately motivated suspects. The Four False Weapons is the 5th book in the Monsieur Bencolin Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

The House of Wisdom

The House of Wisdom PDF Author: Florence Parry Heide
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad, travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.

Azzi In Between

Azzi In Between PDF Author: Sarah Garland
Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847806512
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Azzi and her parents are in danger. They have to leave their home and escape to another country on a frightening journey by car and boat. In the new country they must learn to speak a new language, find a new home and Azzi must start a new school. With a kind helper at the school, Azzi begins to learn English and understand that she is not the only one who has had to flee her home. She makes a new friend, and with courage and resourcefulness, begins to adapt to her new life. But Grandma has been left behind and Azzi misses her more than anything. Will Azzi ever see her grandma again? Drawing on her own experience of working among refugee families, renowned author and illustrator Sarah Garland tells, with tenderness and humour, an exciting adventure story to be enjoyed by readers of all ages. Endorsed by Amnesty International.

American Too

American Too PDF Author: Elisa Bartone
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780688132781
Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
When Rosina arrives in New York Harbor with her family from Italy, she dreams of dressing up someday as the Statue of Liberty.