Thirteen-year-old Azad knows nothing but war while growing up in a predominantly Kurdish town in Sardasht, Iran.
"When her father and brother are taken by the Taliban and her mother and baby brother are killed in a bombing raid during the Afghan war in October 2001, Najmah begins an arduous journey across the border to Peshawar, Pakistan.
Eight teenagers who fled from Ethiopia and Rwanda tell how they got to America and Canada only to receive more prejudicial treatment.
Imagine being asked to be one of the first black students to integrate an all-white school in the Fifties.
Mae and Matthew Carter want something more for their children than life on the cotton fields, so they decide to send 7 of their 13 children to an all-white school for a better education when Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed in Sunflower
In 1972, President Ida Amin had a dream that he believed was a message from God. Based on that dream, this dictator decides to eliminate all foreign Indians — the "Jews of Uganda" — in 90 days.
Originally written in German, this English translation sets the stage for a contemporary controversy that could erupt in any unsuspecting family of German descent.
Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Hava Aaronson is an Orthodox Jew who lives an unorthodox lifestyle in the world of punk.
Piri, now 17, resides with a Swedish family while she searches for news of family and friends who also might have survived the Nazi concentration camps.
This book examines the treatment of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II by the U.S. government.