"Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author's own life experience and inspired by a true story, Nour's Secret Library is about the power of books to hea...
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"Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author's own life experience and inspired by a true story, Nour's Secret Library is about the power of books to hea...
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.
"The inimitable Jane Yolen has teamed up with Barbara Diamond Goldin (a prolific author in her own right) to retell Bible stories from the point of view of twelve women (in nine chapters, as some come in pairs). After each story, there is a reflection "imagine" piece written from...
"Osnat was born five hundred years ago - at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read. Yet Osnat's father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books. And she convinced him to teach her. Then she in turn grew...
Eleven-year-old Yanek wanders the countryside with Grandpa Sergei--the blind former Ukranian army commander to whom the boy has been entrusted by his Jewish father--avoiding the horrors of war and learning how to fend for himself and how to care for others.
"Young Akiva was a goat-herd. He was good at his job and content with his life, except for one thing - he had never learned to read. One fateful day he decided it was time to change this...This is the inspirational story of Rabbi Akiva's personal journey from poor goat-herd to a ...