Stefania's Dancing Slippers
Stefania's Dancing Slippers

Author: Jennifer Beck

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781869438258

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As a five-year-old in Poland, Stefania loved to dance, but war came and her father went away to fight. Then she and her mother were sent to work camps in Siberia. The two struggled through until they were released and allowed to travel south again. But now her mother is sick and Stefania must leave her. At the parting Stefania drops one of her precious dancing slippers. She holds on to her one remaining slipper as a link to home and her parents as she is finally sent to the other side of the world. Suggested level: primary.

Let the Celebrations Begin!
Let the Celebrations Begin!

Author: Margaret Wild

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0763670138

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Amid rumors of liberation, inmates at Germany’s Belsen camp create toys for a celebration in a moving story of hope, based on a true account. Miriam lives in hut 18, bed 22. She has little to eat and nothing to play with, but she can remember what it was like before, when she had her own food, her own bed, and her very own toys. As World War II nears an end, everyone says the soldiers are coming, so Miriam joins the women in planning a celebration. Every night, while the guards sleep, they busy themselves crafting toys out of scraps of their clothing to surprise the younger children. Based on a reference to a small collection of stuffed toys made by women in Belsen for the first party held after the liberation of the camp, this new edition of Let the Celebrations Begin!, originally published in 1996, is an affecting story of human survival.

Remember That November
Remember That November

Author: Jennifer Beck

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781775500100

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It's almost Guy Fawkes Night, and at the school speech competition Andy talks about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. The children cheer excitedly, thinking Andy will win the contest. But then, Aroha gets up, wearing a white feather in her hair, and tells the story of another fifth of November - the invasion of Parihaka in 1881.

Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key

Author: Tatiana de Rosnay

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-06-12

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0312370830

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An American journalist researches the notorious roundup of Parisian Jews and uncovers her French family's war-era secrets.

Z is for Moose
Z is for Moose

Author: Kelly L Bingham

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1448187745

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Zebra is absolutely certain he’ll be able to direct everyone to appear on the correct page, at the appropriate time, without any mishaps, unnecessary drama, or hurt feelings. It’s an ABC book, for goodness’ sake. How difficult can it be? Oh, dear. Zebra forgot about Moose. A hilarious reinvention of the classic alphabet book - not to be missed!

A Country for Dying
A Country for Dying

Author: Abdellah Taïa

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1609809912

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An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE Paris, Summer 2010. Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her. Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss, including the loss of her pre-transition male persona. Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who, having fled to Paris, seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, Allal, Zahira's first love back in Morocco, travels to Paris to find Zahira. Through swirling, perpendicular narratives, A Country for Dying follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities, a schism of a postcolonial world where, as Taïa writes, "So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future."

A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America
A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America

Author: Marilyn Rouvelas

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music, what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.

The Bantam and the Soldier
The Bantam and the Soldier

Author: Jennifer Beck

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 9781775432074

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It is wartime in Europe. A young soldier from 'a country on the other side of the world' rescues and brings back to health a little bantam, and in the midst of the fighting and devastation an unusual friendship is formed. Every morning the bantam lays an egg for the soldier and his friends and becomes the center of their affection and hopes for the end of the war.

The Last Children of Tokyo
The Last Children of Tokyo

Author: Yoko Tawada

Publisher: Portobello Books

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1846276713

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Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?