Region: Palestine

Materials from Palestine

Sitti’s Secrets

By Book Importer | Published: April 4, 2011

A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank.

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Santa Claus in Baghdad: Stories about Teens in the Arab World

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

A collection of eight stories, most previously published in other anthologies, about what it is like to grow up in the Middle East today.

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The Boy and the Wall

By Richard Clift | Published: July 23, 2010

The Boy and the Wall is a children’s book made and illustrated by youth at the Lajee Centre in the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank, telling the story of their everyday lives and struggles as refugees. Click here to read the Worlds of Words Review.

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One More River

By Book Importer | Published: May 24, 2010

Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and live a more fully Jewish life,Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she [...]

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The Shepherd’s Granddaughter

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: January 3, 2010

Amani longs to be a shepherd like her beloved grandfather Sido, who has tended his flock for generations, grazing sheep on their family’s homestead near Hebron. Amani loves Sido’s many stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos. But as outside forces begin to encroach upon this hotly contested land, Amani struggles to [...]

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After the War

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

“Didn’t the gas ovens finish you all off?” is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground organization [...]

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The Boy from over There

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Avramik, a young Holocaust survivor, has difficulties adjusting to life on a kibbutz in the days before the first Arab-Israeli War.

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Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!: A Palestinian Folktale

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

There was once a woman who had a little pot for a child. The little pot made lots of noise as she rolled everywhere. Unfortunately she wasn’t old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. That naughty pot ran off with things that did not belong to her until she learned her lesson.

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The Lady with the Hat

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Yulek, a seventeen-year-old Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war’s end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a sad and beautiful Jewish girl named Theresa. Saved from the Nazis by Catholic nuns, Theresa, like Yulek, is uncertain about her place in the postwar world. Together they struggle [...]

Other Descriptors: England (UK), Germany, Historical Fiction, Israel, Poland, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Dead Sea Scrolls

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This book details the important archaeological discovery of the ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls and discusses efforts to translate them, the battle over their possession, and the people who have figured in their history.

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