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Author : Rosanne Hawke,Lyn White
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743312469
A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone: Shahana, a young girl living in war-torn Kashmir.
Author : Rosanne Hawke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN : 145966776X
Open your eyes. We will not hurt you.' The boy quietens; his eyes open. 'Where are you from?' The boy stares at them both; then says, 'Who will you tell?' Shahana lives alone with her young brother in the shadow of the Line of Control, the border patrolled by Pakistani and Indian soldiers that divides Kashmir in two. Life is hard, but Shahana ekes out a living with her beautiful embroidery. Then she finds a boy lying unconscious near the border. Zahid is from across the Line of Control, and Shahana takes a terrible risk by sheltering him. But how can she give Zahid up to the authorities when she knows he'll be imprisoned - or worse? An unforgettable novel about one young girl in war - torn Kashmir.
Author : J.L. Powers,Lyn White
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743431306
A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing him to become a soldier in Somalia's brutal ongoing war. Although her mother and grandmother are still with her, Amina feels vulnerable and abandoned. Secretly, she begins to create her own artwork in the streets and the derelict buildings to give herself a sense of hope and to let out the burden of her heart. Her artwork explodes into Mogadishu's underground world, providing a voice for people all over the city who hope for a better, more secure future. 'This touching story brings home vividly the dangers of creating art that seeks to be true - and all the more so during a vicious civil war, interwoven with religious extremism. Thankfully, Amina's teenage curiosity and courage also signal hope.' - Beverley Naidoo, author of Carnegie Medal Winner The Other Side of Truth
Author : Navya Girdhar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647339180
This book is a journal of the life of two sisters. It is a riveting tale of the sisters on a roller-coaster ride of love, betrayal, selfishness, crime, and finally, redemption. Rimana, a simple girl in her early teens, prays with all her might that the little life growing in her mother’s womb be a girl. And her prayers are heard, as she is blessed with a baby sister, Shahana. Shahana grows up to be nothing less than a princess in a dreamland, a diva, all young and graceful, and oh-so-beautiful. Shahana is the beauty and Rimana is the belle. But fate would not stop meddling, and life takes a turn when soon the daily squabbles, quarrels and tantrums take them where they could not have imagined reaching, even in their worst dreams. Then a day comes when it seems that their world has turned upside down and that everything has come toppling down at them, because now they have to bear the searing pain of separation. Through it all, will this deep bond of sisterhood fade over the years, or is it dissolved in their blood so much so that it will remain intact on till doomsday, and the two sisters will stand, hand-in-hand, till the end of eternity?
Author : Firdawsī
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670034851
A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452957173
A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her native Nunavik, a region that is part of the homeland of the Inuit in Canada. In Inuktitut, the language of Inuit, the elders say that the weather is Uggianaqtuq—behaving in strange and unexpected ways. The Right to Be Cold is Watt-Cloutier’s memoir of growing up in the Arctic reaches of Quebec during these unsettling times. It is the story of an Inuk woman finding her place in the world, only to find her native land giving way to the inexorable warming of the planet. She decides to take a stand against its destruction. The Right to Be Cold is the human story of life on the front lines of climate change, told by a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential Indigenous environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world. Raised by a single mother and grandmother in the small community of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Watt-Cloutier describes life in the traditional ice-based hunting culture of an Inuit community and reveals how Indigenous life, human rights, and the threat of climate change are inextricably linked. Colonialism intervened in this world and in her life in often violent ways, and she traces her path from Nunavik to Nova Scotia (where she was sent at the age of ten to live with a family that was not her own); to a residential school in Churchill, Manitoba; and back to her hometown to work as an interpreter and student counselor. The Right to Be Cold is at once the intimate coming-of-age story of a remarkable woman, a deeply informed look at the life and culture of an Indigenous community reeling from a colonial history and now threatened by climate change, and a stirring account of an activist’s powerful efforts to safeguard Inuit culture, the Arctic, and the planet.
Author : Wai Chim,Lyn White
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781760639020
WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019 Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer holidays, imagining days filled with nothing but playing basketball with his friends, he's in for a shock. The worst drought in over sixty years threatens the crops that the entire village relies on for income. As the water situation becomes dire, Shaozhen realises he must come up with a plan. But will it be enough to save his family and friends and secure the future of his village?
Author : Laaleen Sukhera
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789386950277
Heiress Kamila Mughal is humiliated when her brother's best friend snubs her to marry a social climbing nobody from Islamabad. Roya discovers her fiancé has been cheating on her and ends up on a blind date on her wedding day. Beautiful young widow Begum Saira Qadir has mourned her husband, but is she finally ready to start following her own desires? Inspired by Jane Austen and set in contemporary Pakistan, Austenistan is a collection of seven stories; romantic, uplifting, witty, and heartbreaking by turn, which pay homage to the world's favourite author in their own uniquely local way.
Author : Fiona Doyle,Rosanne Hawke
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780702247217
Growing up on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and 1980s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age of 16, she moved to Sydney to attend the NAISDA Dance College, where she studied with the legendary Page brothers. As a young woman, she carves out a fragile relationship with her absent father, inspiring her to better understand her Austrian ancestry and how it meshes with her Indigenous identity. The model of a modern woman, the author shares the joys and challenges that come with growing up in a divided community in this powerful and candid memoir and offers a rare insight into the burgeoning years of the contemporary Indigenous dance movement.
Author : Rosanne Hawke
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780732291440
Ameera, 16, is the daughter of an Australian mother and a Pakistani father. She doesn't realise it but her father has made plans to marry her off to a wealthy cousin in Pakistan. When her uncle takes her passport and return ticket away and confiscates her mobile phone, Ameera is trapped ... Ages 14+.
Author : Prue Mason,Lyn White
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743431344
A gripping story of one child's experience of the civil war in Syria. Zafir has a comfortable life in Homs, Syria, until his father, a doctor, is arrested for helping a protester who was campaigning for revolution. While his mother heads to Damascus to try to find out where his father is being held, Zafir stays with his grandmother - until her house is bombed. With his father in prison, his mother absent, his grandmother ill and not a friend left in the city, Zafir must stay with his Uncle Ghazi. But that too becomes dangerous as the city becomes more and more besieged. Will Zafir survive long enough to be reunited with his parents?
Author : Michelle Aung Thin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0369327934
The men come at night. The first Hasina knows of it is her aunt's voice, urgent, full of fear. 'Up, up. Get up! ' The second thing is smoke. Then there is a scream. 'Run,' her father shouts. 'And don't stop!' Hasina races deep into the Rakhine forest to hide with her cousin Ghadiya and her little brother, Araf. When they emerge some days later, it is to a silent, smouldering village. Their own house has not been burnt down but where are the rest of her family? Perhaps they have been gathered up and taken away ... or worse. So many Rohingyas are gone, how will she survive? Will her parents return? Hasina must find the courage to save her family amid the escalating conflict that threatens her world and her identity.
Author : Saeeda Bano
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789353058012
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition, lost her son for a night in a refugee camp, ate toast with Nehru and fell in love with a married man who would, in the course of their twenty-five-year relationship, become the Mayor of Delhi. Though she was born into privilege in Bhopal-the only Indian state to be ruled by women for four successive generations-her determination, independence and frankness make this a remarkable memoir and a crucial disruption in India's understanding of her own past.
Author : Julie Hunt,Terry Whitebeach,Lyn White
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781761063909
An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye is staying at her grandparents' lodge at Chancy's Point in Tasmania's beautiful Central Highlands. But her plans for fun with best friend Lily and working on her pencil pine conservation project are thwarted as fire threatens the community and the bush she loves - and when Tye discovers Bailey, a runaway boy hiding out, she is torn between secretly helping him and her loyalty to her grandparents. As the fire comes closer and evacuation warnings abound, Tye is caught up in the battle of her life. Will she and Bailey survive? What will happen to her beloved pencil pines and the wildlife at risk? Can she and her close-knit community make a difference in a world threatened by climate change?
Author : Lyn White,Fleur Beale
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781760635565
WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019 Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the community clean-up. But soon she discovers that it's not only familiar buildings and landscapes that have vanished - it's friends and acquaintances too. As the earth keeps shaking day after day, can Lyla find a way to cope with her new reality?