A Little Piece of Ground
ISBN: 9781931859387 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim,...
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64,53 zł |
Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories about Teens in the Arab World
ISBN: 9780253220042 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and a Palestinian refugee camp engagingly depicts young people's experiences growing up in the Middle East. The characters, drawn from urban and rural settings and from different classes as well as a mix of countries, confront situations involving friends, family, teachers, and society at large. Along with some specifically Middle Eastern issues, such as strife in Iraq, the hardships of life... What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tu... |
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70,93 zł |
Checkpoints
ISBN: 9780827608702 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Israeli and a Palestinian girl struggle to maintain their friendship in the face of conflict; Noa, an Israeli Jew, and Maha, a Palestinian Muslim, are two very different teenage girls who may not be so different after all. They ve become good friends, but after a tragic incident that changes Noa and her family forever, Noa s beliefs about Palestinian and Israeli relations are put to the test. Shocking secrets are revealed that affect both Noa s and Maha s lives and test their blossoming relationship. Checkpoints brings to life the realities teenagers in the Middle East face today,...
An Israeli and a Palestinian girl struggle to maintain their friendship in the face of conflict; Noa, an Israeli Jew, and Maha, a Palestinian Muslim, ...
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62,19 zł |
The Breadwinner Trilogy
ISBN: 9780888999597 / Angielski / Miękka / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deborah Ellis' trilogy has been a phenomenal success, both critically and commercially. Now young readers can experience this entire epic story in one volume. The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan, where 11-year-old Parvana lives with her family in a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul. When her father is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, the family is left with no money or resources. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy and become the breadwinner. In Parvana's Journey, her father has died and the family has...
Deborah Ellis' trilogy has been a phenomenal success, both critically and commercially. Now young readers can experience this entire epic story in one...
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86,06 zł |
Amanda in Arabia: The Perfume Flask Volume 1
ISBN: 9781926760360 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amanda Ross is an average twelve year old Canadian girl. So what is she doing thousands of kilometres from home in the United Arab Emirates? It's her own fault really, she wished for adventure and travel when she blew out those candles on her last birthday cake. Little did she know that a whole different world awaited her on the other side of the globe, one full of intrigue, mystery and folklore. A world with a beautiful princess, a dangerous desert and wonderful friends. Join Amanda on her first adventure as she discovers the secrets behind The Perfume Flask.
Amanda Ross is an average twelve year old Canadian girl. So what is she doing thousands of kilometres from home in the United Arab Emirates? It's her ...
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64,53 zł |
Through a Mud Wall
ISBN: 9789957860608 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rana Azzoubi's new book, Through a Mud Wall, is a gripping and fun story about four children, living in the country of Jordan, who embark on an adventure bigger than they could have ever imagined. Nadia and Walid, typical of their age, delight in being with their friends, keeping secrets from adults, and discovering new places. During a family get-together, on their grandfather's mountain farm, they join with their two cousins to explore a cave, which the farm-keeper had warned them to stay away from. After mischievously fooling the adults, they manage to get inside the cave, where they...
Rana Azzoubi's new book, Through a Mud Wall, is a gripping and fun story about four children, living in the country of Jordan, who embark on an advent...
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49,68 zł |
Wishing Moon
ISBN: 9781460939192 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted by the genie inside allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance. But she can achieve happiness only by escaping the vengeful princess who once possessed the lamp.
After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted by the genie inside allow her to alter her life by cho...
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46,11 zł |
Secrets of a Summer Village
ISBN: 9781463740115 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can coffee grounds tell your future? Will fate bring you to your soul mate thousands of miles from home? How will you know if it's him? Would the evil eye dare stop two souls on their paths to each other? A last-minute opportunity to spend a month with a Turkish family on the Aegean coast drastically changes the course of seventeen-year-old Rachel Guo's summer. This intercultural coming-of-age novel is full of exotic tastes, summer heat, promises kept and broken, and love. In a summer village on the western coast of Turkey, you'll meet Rachel, who doesn't know what she wants; Aylin, who...
Can coffee grounds tell your future? Will fate bring you to your soul mate thousands of miles from home? How will you know if it's him? Would the evil...
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64,42 zł |
The Girl with a Brave Heart
ISBN: 9781846869310 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, Mother Hulda, reset in Tehran, Iran.
After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant...
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40,69 zł |
My Name Is Parvana
ISBN: 9781554982981 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this stunning sequel to The Breadwinner Trilogy, Parvana, now 15-years-old, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan. The girl does not respond to questions in any language and remains silent, even when she is threatened, harassed, and mistreated over several days. The only clue to her identity is a tattered shoulder bag containing papers that refer to people named Shauzia, Nooria, Leila, Asif, Hassan -- and Parvana. As she waits for foreign military forces to determine her fate, she remembers the past four years of her...
In this stunning sequel to The Breadwinner Trilogy, Parvana, now 15-years-old, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrori...
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42,84 zł |
El Pan de la Guerra
ISBN: 9781554987641 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the crime of having a...
The first book in Deborah Ellis s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families, and friendship under...
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47,31 zł |
The Breadwinner
ISBN: 9781554987658 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the crime of...
The first book in Deborah Ellis's riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families, and friendship under...
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51,62 zł |
Parvana's Journey
ISBN: 9781554987702 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 her father. Parvana doesn't know where they are, but sets out alone to find them -- masquerading as a boy. Her journey only becomes more perilous as the bombs begin to fall. Making her way across the desolate Afghan countryside, she meets other children who are strays from the war: an infant boy in a bombed-out village, a nine-year-old girl who believes...
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 m...
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47,31 zł |
Mud City
ISBN: 9781554987733 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parvana s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. She still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France, but it's hard to imagine when she is living in the Widows Compound of a muddy, crowded refugee camp outside Peshawar. Shauzia finally decides to leave the camp and try her luck on the streets. Peshawar is dangerous and full of desperately poor and wandering children like herself, but she has Jasper, the dog who followed her down from a shepherds camp in the mountains, and she knows how to...
Parvana s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. She still dreams of seeing ...
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47,31 zł |
The Water Urn
ISBN: 9781508707226 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A children's novel set in a two-room schoolhouse in mid-20th century Iran, this story about the daily misadventures and experiences of the village children and their beloved schoolmaster, Mr. Samadi will warm your heart. Through this nostalgic portrayal of the daily hardship and human drama of rural life so many years ago, Houshang Moradi Kermani's memorable characters provide an inspiring look at provincial life in a quintessential Iranian village where survival means that members of a community must learn to work together to achieve a common goal.
A children's novel set in a two-room schoolhouse in mid-20th century Iran, this story about the daily misadventures and experiences of the village chi...
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58,77 zł |
Shalom Everybodeee!: Grover's Adventures in Israel
ISBN: 9780761375593 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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34,40 zł |
Anointed
ISBN: 9781925353044 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the anointed, death is not a threat. It's a promise.
In the complexly ethereal and dangerous place that is Israel, boys and girls are afflicted by poverty, power and politics. Life is difficult for many and there are no easy answers. It is within such struggle that hope emerges. When thirteen-year-old Zanna migrates to the Middle East, she sees it not for its exotic beauty, religious diversity and archaeological splendour, but as a formidable life sentence. And she couldn't be more correct. She too has become one of the anointed; a gifting that could cost her that which she... For the anointed, death is not a threat. It's a promise.
In the complexly ethereal and dangerous place that is Israel, boys and girls are afflict... |
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87,01 zł |
The Brave Badria
ISBN: 9781540573018 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past decade of war, and the continued threat of global terrorism, is not easy to explain to a child. Veterans are even more eager to find a way to share their perspective with their children. The Brave Badria follows the adventures of a young, courageous Afghan girl. Using the wonderment and mysticism of a Middle Eastern "tall tale" and familiar themes of bullying, Badria makes complex subjects accessible to a child. Whether those children be American, British, or Afghan, they'll love cheering for Badria as she resists the evil Snake People who continually seek to control Afghanistan.
The past decade of war, and the continued threat of global terrorism, is not easy to explain to a child. Veterans are even more eager to find a way to...
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58,72 zł |
Fatima the Spinner and the Tent: English-Pashto Edition
ISBN: 9781944493561 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,23 zł |
Welcome to Nowhere
ISBN: 9781509840472 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forced to flee his home in Syria, a young boy and his family face the dangers of civil war.
Forced to flee his home in Syria, a young boy and his family face the dangers of civil war.
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43,63 zł |