Even after her father and brothers are killed and her leg is gravely injured in a Serb attack, 11-year-old Zana, the narrator, struggles to heed her father's advice: "Don't let them fill your heart with hate.
Product Description: Since 2006, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees have fled to other countries.
Product Description: In Children of War, a companion title to Off to War: Voices of Soldiers' Children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to tragic victims of the Iraq war — Iraqi children.
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"A forced pen-pal exchange turns into an opportunity for real communication between Illinois sixth-grader Abby Carson and Sadeed Bayat, the best English-language student in his Afghan village.
"Born with a cleft lip, Zulaikha struggles to feel worth in a society that values women by their marriage prospects…Then, by chance, Zulaikha meets Meena, a former professor, who begins to teach her to read and write just as American soldiers arrive, b
As Fadi's family is preparing to flee to the U.S., Fadi's little sister is lost.
"Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors.
"In this sequel to The Breadwinner (2001), 13-year-old Parvana buries her father, disguises herself as a boy, and sets out across war-torn Afghanistan to find the surviving members of her family.
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A celebration of Pullman porters is the focus of this new picture-book edition of Langston Hughes' classic poem.