A vivid and stunningly illustrated memoir about growing up in a small village in Mali.

Margarita vive en una casa grande y señorial rodeada por una cerca. Detrás de la cerca viven niños muy pobres. Esta historia explora la brecha entre ellos, así como la conciencia y el sentido de la responsabilidad que esta diferencia crea en una niña que tiene tanto más que la gente que la rodea.

During the most difficult summer of her life, Ellen finally begins the search for her birth mother. The results are surprising, moving and often very funny, turning life at the Fremedon household upside down.

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Based on a true event about a young girl forced to flee from the Turkish army, this novel is set at the end of World War I, when the Assyrians of northwestern Persia became the targets of Turkey's attempts to expand.

When her parents forbid her to get a dog, Madlenka turns to her imagination instead.

Deborah Ellis interviews the children of American and Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. In their own words, they describe how being a soldier's child has affected their lives.

We see an Indian village grow from a sleepy little agricultural way station to a busy, bustling metropolis. At its heart is a tree, which also grows from a sapling to a towering natural refuge. Reminiscent of the great American classic, Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House.

La niña al centro de esta historia vive entre dos mundos: su casa, donde vive con su papá latinoamericano y su abuela norteamericana rodeada de libros, cosas bonitas y mucho dinero. Y la casa de su otra abuela, católica, donde las posesiones materiales no son especialmente importantes. No es fácil reconciliar los dos mundos.

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