I have been focusing my reading the past few months on middle-grade literature addressing the crisis of refugees and asylum seekers. It has been tough, frankly. Emotionally tough. My goal in doing so was to offer you an array of …
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fiction favorites…The Red Pencil
The Red Pencil, by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Shane W. Evans published in 2014 by Little, Brown and Company In her small Sudanese village, Amira has grown up simply and happily. Her parents love her. The wheat on their …
a list of…five stories to transport you around the world
Orani: My Father’s Village, written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola Orani is a tiny village of narrow, cobbled streets and red clay tiled roofs, dusky green fig trees, and drooping grape clusters, tucked in a sun-soaked, Mediterranean valley on …
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fiction favorites…Home of the Brave
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate I just read this book last week and am very eager to share it with you all! “Cattle” (an excerpt) In my class, my long-name class called English-as-a-Second-Language, we are sixteen. Sixteen people with …
