CCBC Choices 1994
Author: Kathleen T. Horning
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780931641046
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I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-11-11
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0142417041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve-year-old Marie is a leader among the popular black girls in Chauncey, Ohio, a prosperous black suburb. She isn't looking for a friend when Lena Bright, a white girl, appears in school. Yet they are drawn to each other because both have lost their mothers. And they know how to keep a secret. For Lena has a secret that is terrifying, and she's desperate to protect herself and her younger sister from their father. Marie must decide whether she can help Lena by keeping her secret... or by telling it.
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You
Author: Hanna Jansen
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1467765961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore one fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She fought with her little sister, went to school, and teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of violence upon the Tutsi ethnic group. Jeanne’s family, all Tutsis, fled their home and tried desperately to reach safety. They—along with nearly 1 million others—did not survive. The only survivor of her family’s massacre, Jeanne witnessed unspeakable acts. But through courage, wits, and sheer force of will, she survived. Based on a true story, this haunting novel by Jeanne’s adoptive mother makes unforgettably real the events of the 1994 Rwandan genocide as one family experienced it. Jeanne’s story is a tribute to the human spirit and its capacity to heal.
Our Granny
Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1998-03
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0395883954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile grannies come in all shapes and sizes "our granny" is unique.
Yummy
Author: Greg Neri
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781606869390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA graphic novel based on the true story of Robert Yummy Sandifer, an 11-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members.
Puffling Patrol
Author: Ted Lewin
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600604249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTed and Betsy Lewin travel to Iceland to learn about the "Puffling Patrol," a group of children who rescue lost puffins and return them to sea.
Letters from the Inside
Author: John Marsden
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0395689856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.
The World Through Children's Books
Author: Susan Stan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0810841983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World through Children's Books is a valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others who seek to promote international understanding through children's literature. The annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, contains nearly 700 books representing 73 countries. Sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).
Broken Memory
Author: Elisabeth Combres
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1554981611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIRA Notable Books for a Global Society selection Hiding behind an armchair, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she hears everything. And when the assassins finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow manages to stumble away from the scene, motivated only by the memory of her mother's last words: "You must not die, Emma!" Eventually Emma is taken in by an old Hutu woman who risks her own life to hide the child. Emma stays with the old woman and a quiet bond forms between the two, but long after the war ends, the young girl is still haunted by nightmares. When the country establishes courts to allow victims to face their tormenters in their villages, Emma is uneasy and afraid. But through her growing friendship with a young torture victim and the gentle encouragement of an old man charged with helping child survivors, Emma finds the courage to return to the house where her mother was killed and begin the journey to healing.
