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Author: Ruby Bridges
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0545708036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.
Author: Rosanne Hawke
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1743312466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone: Shahana, a young girl living in war-torn Kashmir.
Author: Tim Tebow
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2011-12-24
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0310723477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person that he could be. Through his hard work and determination, he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and as a top prospect in the NFL. Now, in Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, he shares the behind-the-scenes details of his life, on and off the football field. Tim writes about his life as he chooses to live it, revealing how his Christian faith, his family values, and his relentless will to succeed have molded him into the person and the athlete he is today.
Author: Fleur Beale
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2018-02-21
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1760635561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping and personal story about one girl's experience of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftermath. WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019 Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the community clean-up. But soon she discovers that it's not only familiar buildings and landscapes that have vanished - it's friends and acquaintances too. As the earth keeps shaking day after day, can Lyla find a way to cope with her new reality?
Author: Prue Mason
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2015-02-25
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1743431341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping story of one child's experience of the civil war in Syria. Zafir has a comfortable life in Homs, Syria, until his father, a doctor, is arrested for helping a protester who was campaigning for revolution. While his mother heads to Damascus to try to find out where his father is being held, Zafir stays with his grandmother - until her house is bombed. With his father in prison, his mother absent, his grandmother ill and not a friend left in the city, Zafir must stay with his Uncle Ghazi. But that too becomes dangerous as the city becomes more and more besieged. Will Zafir survive long enough to be reunited with his parents?
Author: John Heffernan
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1743312482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fourteen year-old Naveed has only even known war. Born into it, living it every day, he’s had to grow up quickly to be man-of-the-house for his widowed mother and little sister. Life is one long battle for him as he struggles to pay rent, put food on the table, and just stay out of harm’s way. But Naveed dares to dream. He’s sick of war – of the Taliban and the war lords and the drug barons and the foreign powers that together have torn his country apart. He dares to dream of peace, of a day when Afghans will say no to hate and revenge, when they will take charge of their own future and begin re-building their country. In one boy’s dream lie the seeds of a nation’s future." --Author's hope page.
Author: Addy Hall
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2006-08
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 1425925545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Heffernan
Publisher: Through My Eyes
Published: 2017-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781760630003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wai Chim
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2017-07-26
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1760639028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn evocative and compelling story about one boy living through the 2014 drought in Henan, China. WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019 Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer holidays, imagining days filled with nothing but playing basketball with his friends, he's in for a shock. The worst drought in over sixty years threatens the crops that the entire village relies on for income. As the water situation becomes dire, Shaozhen realises he must come up with a plan. But will it be enough to save his family and friends and secure the future of his village?
Author: J.L. Powers
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1743312490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then, rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother. She reacts by creating street art to give herself a sense of hope and to share with people all over the city who hope for a better, more secure future.
