This gripping love story for teen readers is set in South Africa in 1976. Written from the points of view of four young people living in Johannesburg and its black township, this book explores the roots of the Soweto Uprising and the edifice of Apartheid in a South Africa about to explode.
This powerful collection, woven together by the common thread of resistance, features a wide variety of narrative styles, including prose, poetry and diary excerpts.
Following the Navajo Long Walk of 1863, Danny Blackgoat risks his life to rescue his family from imprisonment at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Simon Boulerice est la vedette de ce livre d’inspiration autobiographique conçu pour les premiers lecteurs !
Simon Boulerice est la vedette de ce livre d’inspiration autobiographique conçu pour les premiers lecteurs !
Simon Boulerice est la vedette de ce livre d’inspiration autobiographique conçu pour les premiers lecteurs !
Simon Boulerice est la vedette de ce livre d’inspiration autobiographique conçu pour les premiers lecteurs !
An epic journey across borders, The Vale of Tears chronicles close to two years in the life of Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung as he seeks an escape route from Nazi-occupied Europe.
A story of survival and victory over the dual terrors of the Stalinist and Nazi regimes, Behind the Red Curtain is Maya's testament to her mother’s love and strong will.
In the wake of the Patriotic War and subsequent pandemic, a city of impoverished survivors is ruled by the charismatic Sensei and his strict environmental laws. Detective Sara Fidelia is called in to investigate a rare murder. She sets out on a journey that brings her much more than she bargained for.
Teaching strategies to meet the learning needs of all students in K–10 classrooms.
Boys are often given an education and choices that girls are not, their needs put above those of girls. But boys are also given special burdens by being expected to "be a man", to work, and to fight. Amazing photographs and simple text convey that boys want the girls and women in their lives to have the same freedoms that they have been granted.
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from. When she goes home for the summer, her parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But what will happen when they disobey the law?
When Cass learns she had a grandmother who has just died and left her and her mother the first house they could call their own, she is full of questions. Who was this relative? And what is the unusual mask, forgotten in a drawer, trying to tell her? Strange dreams, strange voices, and strange incidents all lead Cass closer to solving the mystery.
This is an inspiring book for Native American youth about contemporary, courageous men who have made a difference in their communities.
