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(0)Elizabeth Laird
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
329 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sister were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics - all her wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by storm. But when his clever older brother, Musa, gets mixed up with some young political activists, everything changes. Before long, bombs are falling, people are dying, and Omar and his family have no choice...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
423 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the King's men.
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, and imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Seven tales celebrating peace, kindness, and forgiveness from seven countries that have all suffered from wars and conflicts in recent times.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Charity Brown's life is about to change--her family have been left a huge, rambling house by a mysterious benefactor, and her parents want to move in and throw open its doors to the needy. Only recently back from hospital after months of isolation with polio, Charity is over-protected and lonely as the only child still at home. Her family are very religious--her sisters are called Faith and Hope, and her brother Ted is studying to be a preacher--so...
