Theme: Arab-Israeli conflict

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 [...]

Descriptors: Canada, Historical Fiction, Israel, Palestine, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Real Time

By Book Importer | Published: March 30, 2010

Sixteen-year-old Tomas Wanninger persuades his mother to let him leave Germany to volunteer at a kibbutz in Israel, where he experiences a violent political attack and finds answers about his own past. Read more about Real Time in WOW Review.

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

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.

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

A Little Piece of Ground

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 7, 2007

During the Israeli occupation of Ramallah in the West Bank of Palestine, twelve-year-old Karim and his friends create a secret place for themselves where they can momentarily forget the horrors of war.

Descriptors: Asia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Israel, Palestine, Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: » Comments closed

The Book Of Everything: A Novel

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Nine-year-old Thomas receives encouragement from many sources, including candid talks with Jesus, to help him tolerate the strict family life dictated by his deeply-religious father.

Descriptors: Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Netherlands » Other Themes: , » 1 Comment

Pack Of Wolves

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In the forests of Belorussia in 1942 a group of disabled Russian partisans makes its way to a medical unit while being pursued by traitorous partisans, German soldiers, and vicious dogs.

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Grandmother’s Song

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A Mexican Indian grandmother can feel the fear in her grandaughter’s bones, so she strokes and hugs her to give her courage, dignity, trust, and skill which the grandaughter eventually passes on to her own grandchildren.

Descriptors: Americas, Fiction, Mexico, Primary (ages 6-9) » Tagged » Comments closed