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Gives an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims.

Based on a true incident, this novel introduces Haroon, a young Muslim and a serious student devoted to his family, and Jay, a white kid and a rising football star whos fiercely devoted to his team. Amid an atmosphere of growing racial tension, both boys set out on a painful journey of self-discovery.

The people of Bolivia have grown coca for legitimate purposes for hundreds of years, but the demands of America's War on Drugs now threaten this way of life. Deborah Ellis's searing follow-up to the highly praised "I Am a Taxi" deals with this frank reality, " After he manages to escape from virtual enslavement in an illegal cocaine operation, Diego is taken in by the Ricardo family. These poor coca farmers give Diego a safe haven where he re...

Immagina di vivere in un Paese in cui donne e ragazze non possono uscire di casa senza essere scortate da un uomo. Immagina di dover indossare abiti che coprono ogni centimetro del tuo corpo, viso compreso. Questa era la vita in Afghanistan sotto il regime dei talebani. Questa è la vita a cui si ribella Parvana, undici anni, che non ha paura di travestirsi da ragazzo per poter uscire di casa e lavorare, per se stessa, per la sua famiglia, per ...

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Winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana doesn't know where they are. She just ...

Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen - year - old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war - torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle - the squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais. When an altercation at the soup kitche...

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The first book in Deborah Ellis's riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families, and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father — a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed — works from...

The final book in the internationally - bestselling trilogy that includes The Breadwinner and Parvana's Journey. Parvana's best friend, fourteen - year - old Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Shauzia finally decides to leave the camp and try her luck on the streets. ...

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A remarkable and thought-provoking new novel set on Israel's West Bank, by the author of The Breadwinner.On Israel's West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards.Should she help him?After all, she's just a cat.Or is she?It turns out that this particular cat is not used to thinking ...

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Parvana è al funerale di suo padre, in un villaggio sperduto nel deserto. Ora Parvana è sola. Deve guardarsi dai Telebani e continua il suo viaggio alla cieca, in un territorio poverissimo, devastato da mine e bombe. Accanto al cadavere di una donna scopre un bimbo piccolo, che chiama Hassan e prende con sé. Al duo si unirà Asif, ragazzino senza una gamba trovato in una caverna, che accetta di malagrazia di obbedire a una femmina, e poi Leila,...

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Nell'Afghanistan finalmente libero dal regime talebano i soldati americani arrestano una ragazzina trovata a vagare tra le macerie di una scuola bombardata, perché sospettata di terrorismo. Interrogata per giorni, la ragazzina si rifiuta di parlare nonostante le minacce e le pressioni estenuanti a cui è sottoposta. Mentre attende di conoscere il suo destino, Parvana, che ormai ha quindici anni, ripercorre gli ultimi avvenimenti, dal momento in...

Excerpt from An Introduction to the History of Sugar as a Commodity: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Bryn Mawr, College for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThe people of the Spanish Peninsula were at once the last to receive the cane at the hands of the Mohammedans, and the first to start it on its further migration across the Atlantic Ocean. In the early fifteenth century the islands nearer the Old World were planted with the sug...

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