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Author : Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781338118674

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The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah Pdf

A remarkable story about the power of tolerance from one of the most important voices in contemporary Muslim literature, critically acclaimed author Randa Abdel-Fattah. Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-immigrant group, which rails against the tide of refugees flooding the country. And it all makes sense to Michael.Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school, and turns out to be funny, smart -- and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. Suddenly, his parents' politics seem much more complicated.Mina has had a long and dangerous journey fleeing her besieged home in Afghanistan, and now faces a frigid reception at her new prep school, where she is on scholarship. As tensions rise, lines are drawn. Michael has to decide where he stands. Mina has to protect herself and her family. Both have to choose what they want their world to look like.

Author : Simon Guerrier
Publisher : Big Finish Productions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1844351491

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The History of Christmas by Simon Guerrier Pdf

Studio Melizo presents the history of Christmas as part of the Holidays on the Net resource. The history of Christmas traditions can be traced back centuries before the birth of the Christ child. Access to holiday music, books, and videos is available.

Author : Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781742624303

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Noah's Law by Randa Abdel-Fattah Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Noah is a troublemaker. His father is a hotshot barrister. This is not a good combination. When Noah gets caught mucking up at school, his dad sends him to work at his aunt's law firm during the holidays to 'learn responsibility' and 'fix his attitude'. There he meets Jacinta - the cute intern who knows her way around a photocopier, and Casey - the wicked witch of the firm. Noah becomes involved in a case where a woman has been killed during a mugging gone wrong. There's a grieving husband, a guilty employer, and an open and shut case involving lots of money. But right and wrong, and crime and punishment are soon entangled as Noah realises that things are seldom what they seem.

Author : Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781760896072

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Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied Pdf

Exploring the diaspora experience, race, politics and identity, Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an own voices novel for young readers, which bursts with passion, humour and truth. Layla has ended the school year on a high and can’t wait to spend the holidays hanging out with her friends and designing a prize-winning Grand Designs Tourismo invention. But Layla’s plans are interrupted when her grandmother in Sudan falls ill and the family rush to be with her. The last time Layla went to Sudan she was only a young child. Now she feels torn between her Sudanese and Australian identities. As political tensions in Sudan erupt, so too do tensions between Layla and her family. Layla is determined not to lose her place in the invention team, but will she go against her parents’ wishes? What would a Kandaka do?

Author : Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241440506

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You Must Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied Pdf

'If you want to invent something nobody has ever thought of before, you need to read the things that others don't read, look in the spaces other people are not in...' Layla believes she was right to stand up for herself against a bully, but it's landed her a suspension - not the way she (or her parents) would have wished to begin her time at her fancy new school! This is just a setback though, and she's determined to prove that she does deserve her scholarship by making new friends and setting her sights on inventing something that could win the big robotics competition. But where to begin? You Must Be Layla introduces Sudanese-born author, broadcaster, social advocate and mechanical engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied as an exciting new voice in children's writing. "...this warm, humorous account of a larger-than-life Sudanese girl navigating a posh Australian school is an engaging read for 12-plus." - The Guardian

Author : Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Determination (Personality trait)
ISBN : 9780857986153

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Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied Pdf

Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a 'tea cosy' there could not be a more unlikely place on earth for a young Muslim woman to want to be. This is the story of how she got there, where she is going, and how she wants the world to change. Born in the Sudan, Yassmin and her parents moved to Brisbane when she was two, and she has been tackling barriers ever since. At 16 she founded Youth Without Borders, an organisation focused on helping young people to work for positive change in their communities. . In 2012 she was named Young Leader in the Australian Financial Review and Westpac's inaugural 100 Women of Influence Awards. Born in Sudan and moving to Australia at the age of two, she graduated top of her university year in 2011 with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (First Class Honours), and was a recipient of the University of Queensland's Dean's Excellence scholarship. In 2007, Yassmin was named Young Australian Muslim of the Year for her work in the community and in 2010 Young Queenslander of the Year. She serves on various state and federal councils and is currently works as an engineering specialist on oil and gas rigs.

Author : Deng Thiak Adut,Ben Mckelvey
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780734419613

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Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut,Ben Mckelvey Pdf

The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hope - for readers aged 12+. Deng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever. At six years old, his mother was told she had to give him up to fight. At the age most Australian children are starting school, Deng was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He began a harsh, relentless military training that saw this young boy trained to use an AK-47 and sent into battle. He lost the right to be a child. He lost the right to learn. The things Deng saw over those years will stay with him forever. He suffered from cholera, malaria and numerous other debilitating illnesses but still he had to fight. A child soldier is expected to kill or be killed and Deng almost died a number of times. He survived being shot in the back. The desperation and loneliness was overwhelming. He thought he was all alone. But Deng was rescued from war by his brother John. Hidden in the back of a truck, he was smuggled out of Sudan and into Kenya. Here he lived in refugee camps until he was befriended by an Australian couple. With their help and the support of the UN, Deng Adut came to Australia as a refugee. Despite physical injuries and mental trauma he grabbed the chance to make a new life. He worked in a local service station and learnt English watching The Wiggles. He taught himself to read and started studying at TAFE. In 2005 he enrolled in a Bachelor of Law at Western Sydney University. He became the first person in his family to graduate from university. This is an inspiring story of a man who has overcome deadly adversity to become a lawyer and committed worker for the disenfranchised, helping refugees in Western Sydney. It is an important reminder of the power of compassion and the benefit to us all when we open our doors and our hearts to fleeing war, persecution and trauma.

Author : Kathryn Barker
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250174116

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Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker Pdf

Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel Year: 2083. Location: London. Mission: Wake Romeo. It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind. Among them are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo lies in a coma and Jules is estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance. Then a mysterious time traveler, Ellis, impossibly arrives from the future with a mission that makes Juliet question everything she knows about life and love. Can Jules wake Romeo—and rewrite her future?

Author : Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545050562

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Ten Things I Hate about Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah Pdf

Jamie just wants to fit in. She doesn't want to be seen as a stereotypical Muslim girl named Jamilah, so she does everything possible to hide that part of herself, even if it means keeping her friends at a distance. But when the cutest boy in school asks her out and her friends start to wonder about her life outside of school, suddenly her secrets are threatened. Jamie has to figure out how to be both Jamie and Jamilah before she loses everything...

Author : Cathy Applegate
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1558612785

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Red Sand, Blue Sky by Cathy Applegate Pdf

Two young girls from very different backgrounds discover what they hold in common in this funny Australian classic.

Author : Catherine Bateson
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0702235660

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Being Bee by Catherine Bateson Pdf

" . . . You are going to be pleasant and helpful, Bee, and not chase Jazzi away. I like Jazzi. I want her to be a permanent fixture in our lives and I don't want any bratty, selfish behaviour from you spoiling things . . . "Since her mother died, it'd been just her, her dad and her guinea pigs, Lulu and Fifi. A perfect, non-nuclear family. Exactly how Bee liked it. Nothing stays the same forever though, and when Jazzi moves in, bringing with her a whole new way of looking at the world and a whole lot of secrets, Bee knows things are going to be completely different from now on.But change can be a scary thing, and when someone reaches out to you, sometimes the hardest thing to do is to take their hand.This heartwarming, humorous and vibrant story from award winning author Catherine Bateson reminds us that love comes in many shapes and sizes . . . . . . even in the form of guinea pigs.

Author : Asphyxia -
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911679007

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Future Girl by Asphyxia - Pdf

Author : James Aldridge
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781925095074

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The True Story of Spit MacPhee by James Aldridge Pdf

When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen fear for his future. Fyfe MacPhee is a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit has to fend for himself along the riverbank where they live. While some people feel that Spit can look after himself, others believe he would be better cared for in a boys home - and when old Fyfe dies after one of his 'turns' a fierce battle to decide Spit's destiny begins. Featuring a new introduction from Phillip Gwynne in this Text Classics edition, The True Story of Spit MacPhee is a much-loved, quintessentially Australian novel for readers of all ages. James Aldridge is a multi-award winning Australian author and journalist. Aldridge was born in Bendigo and his family moved to Swan Hill in the mid-1920s. His novels based on the real living conditions of Swan Hill include his 1985 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year The True Story of Lilli Stubeck and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning The True Story of Spit MacPhee. James Aldridge now lives in London.

Author : Cola Bilkuei
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1741982731

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Cola's Journey by Cola Bilkuei Pdf

In 1987, Cola Bilkuei, a young boy from the Dinka tribe in the southern Sudan, was forcibly recruited into Sudan People's Liberation Army. For three months, he and hundreds of other children from his tribe were marched from southern Sudan to a military training camp inside Ethiopia. Once they arrived at the camp, exhausted and terrified, they were systematically brutalised as SPLA officers began to turn them into child soldiers. The children were taught how to handle a rifle, how to fight and how to kill. It was a programme designed to prepare them for the savage civil war being fought between the SPLA and the Muslim government of Sudan based in the north of the country. Yet Cola refused to be brutalised. He knew there was a better life somewhere and he was determined to find it. After two years, he escaped from the camp and began an extraordinary odyssey down the length of Africa. Without money, a passport or official papers of any kind, he fled Ethiopia back into Sudan, from Sudan he travelled to Uganda, from Uganda to Kenya, from Kenya to Tanzania, from Tanzania to Malawi, from Malawi to Mozambique, from Mozambique to Zimbabwe and from Zimbabwe to South Africa. Finally, after getting accepted into a UN refugee program in South Africa he managed to come to Australia in 2003 as a refugee. His journey from that military camp had taken him fourteen years, living illegally, relying on strangers for help and scraping a living at whatever he could do, as well as educating himself to read and write along the way. This book is the story of Cola's extraordinary journey. Although set against a backdrop of brutality and suffering, it is a story of incredible resilience and, above all, of hope.

Author : Bev Aisbett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781460713266

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Cruising Through Calamity by Bev Aisbett Pdf

A book for anyone and everyone who finds themselves going through big change, hard times, bad luck or tough sh*it. A book for right now, as it turns out. From Bev Aisbett, Australia's bestselling author with decades of experience helping people through anxiety, depression and panic attacks, Cruising Through Calamity is a much-needed new book about helping people manage their emotions through big changes, hard times and big challenges. So whether you're struggling during the pandemic or navigating a personal crisis, if you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed and your emotions are getting the better of you, then this is the book you need right now to help you cruise through calamities, big and small. Written in Bev's clear, simple and straightforward style, using straight talk and humour to defuse, entertain, explain and inform, this is a most timely and topical book to help anyone feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty, difficult feelings and tough circumstances.