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The Garbage King

Elizabeth Laird
The Garbage King Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330478021

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Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution, award-winning Elizabeth Laird's The Garbage King takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey. When Mamo's mother dies, he is abandoned in the shanties of Addis Ababa. Stolen by a child-trafficker and sold to a farmer, he is cruelly treated. Escaping back to the city, he meets another, very different runaway. Dani is rich, educated - and fleeing his tyrannical father. Together they join a gang of homeless street boys who survive only by mutual bonds of trust and total dependence on each other.

The Garbage King

Elizabeth Laird
The Garbage King Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781509802951

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When disaster strikes their families, Mamo and Dani are compelled to live as street urchins in the slums of an Ethiopian city.

The Garbage King

Elizabeth Laird
The Garbage King Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743033166

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A gritty, deeply moving story that shows how the human spirit can triumph in the harshest of worlds. "It's the elemental friendship story of fear and hope that will draw in readers." Booklist Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution, award-winning Elizabeth Laird's The Garbage King takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey. When Mamo's mother dies, he is abandoned in the shanties of Addis Ababa. Stolen by a child-trafficker and sold to a farmer, he is cruelly treated. Escaping back to the city, he meets another, very different runaway. Dani is rich, educated - and fleeing his tyrannical father. Together they join a gang of homeless street boys who survive only by mutual bonds of trust and total dependence on each other.

Here Comes the Garbage Barge!

Jonah Winter
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Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780375852183

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Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter Pdf

This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce unlimited trash without consequences. Before everyone recycled . . . There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do? Enter the Garbage Barge! Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created. Here Comes the Garbage Barge was a New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. The Washington Post said, “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!” and the New York Times Book Review raved, “[A] glorious visual treat.”

The Garbage King

Elizabeth Laird
The Garbage King Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0764156799

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When disaster strikes their families, Mamo and Dani are compelled to live as street urchins in the slums of an Ethiopian city.

The Prince Who Walked With Lions

Elizabeth Laird
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781447213291

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The British Army is circling the stronghold of the King of Abyssinia. Its mission is to rescue the British Envoy, held prisoner. Watching with terror and awe is the king's young son, Alamayu. He knows that his father is as brave as a lion, but the fighting is cruel and efficient. By the time it is over, Alamayu is left without parents, throne or friends. In a misguided attempt to care for him, the British take Alamayu to England. There he is befriended by the Queen herself and enrolled at Rugby College to become a 'proper' English gentleman. What the English see as an honour is, to this lonely Ethiopian prince, terrifying and brutal. The Prince Who Walked With Lions is Alamayu's story, seen through his eyes: the battle, the journey to England and the trauma of an English public school as he tries to come to terms with the hand that fate has dealt him, skillfully told by Elizabeth Laird.

The Fastest Boy in the World

Elizabeth Laird
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781447267324

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Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa, Solomon cannot believe his ears. A trip to the capital? It's unfathomable. Solomon's joy is increased when he realizes that the Ethiopian running team will be doing a victory parade through the city that day. Maybe he'll get a glimpse of Haile Gebrselassie or Derartu Tulu?! But Solomon's grandfather has other plans. As Solomon follows him through the big, overwhelming streets, he learns something he cannot believe. The strict old man is a war hero who once risked his life to save a friend and has been in hiding ever since. When grandfather collapses, Solomon knows that getting help from his village is up to him. It's a twenty-mile run from the city to home, and grandfather's life hangs in the balance. Can the small bare-footed runner with the big heart do it? Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird is the inspiring story of a small Ethiopian runner with a very big heart.

The Garbage King

Christopher King
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Author : Christopher King
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501039261

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10 min bedtime stories. How your child will lern to be eco.

The King of Torts

John Grisham
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Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345531995

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts... Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

I Am a Taxi

Deborah Ellis
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Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554980215

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Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession. Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister temporarily runs off while under his watch, earning his mother a heavy fine. The debt and dawning realization of his hopeless situation make him vulnerable to his friend Mando's plan to make big money, fast. Soon, Diego is deep in the jungle, working as a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation. As his situation becomes more and more dangerous, he knows he must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Lost Riders

Elizabeth Laird
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780230738935

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A story of separation and the strength of family, Lost Riders is a powerful and thought-provoking novel from award-winning author Elizabeth Laird. Taken from their home in Pakistan to work in the Persian Gulf, eight-year-old Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by harsh supervisors - but he has a talent for racing and quickly becomes his stable's star jockey. Soon he begins to forget what life was like when he had a proper home. He almost begins to forget about Shari . . .

Kiss the Dust

Elizabeth Laird
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780230738034

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Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird is an unforgettable, award-winning novel of conflict, persecution and the hardships faced by refugees. Tara is an ordinary teenager. Although her country, Kurdistan, is caught up in a war, the fighting seems far away. It hasn't really touched her. Until now. The secret police are closing in. Tara and her family must flee to the mountains with only the few things they can carry. It is a hard and dangerous journey - but their struggles have only just begun. Will anywhere feel like home again?

A Little Piece of Ground

Elizabeth Laird
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608465835

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A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.

Oranges in No Man's Land

Elizabeth Laird
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477932

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Oranges in No Man's Land brings Elizabeth Laird's emotional and gripping adventure to her next generation of fans. Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two younger brothers. The city has been torn in half by civil war and a desolate, dangerous no man's land divides the two sides. Only militiamen and tanks dare enter this deadly zone, but when Granny falls desperately ill, Ayesha sets off on a terrifying journey to reach a doctor living in enemy territory.

Red Sky in the Morning

Elizabeth Laird
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781608461592

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Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird Pdf

The classic children’s novel of a teenage girl and her special needs brother is “quite simply, a wonderfully moving story about the power of love” (Times Educational Supplement). Twelve-year-old Anna Peacock is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. But when Ben is born with a rare condition, it is clear that he will never be like other children. Though Anna loves him immensely, she finds herself unable to tell her friends the truth about Ben’s disability. Over the years of Ben’s tragically short life, Anna’s perspective matures and changes. When the truth does come out, it leads not to the ridicule she once expected, but to sympathy and understanding. Highly commended for the Carnegie Medal, Elizabeth Laird’s Red Sky in the Morning is a heartfelt tale of love, loss, family and friendship. “A wry first-person narrative . . . . Discussion of handicaps, death and bereavement, and religious belief are carefully integrated into the story.” —School Library Journal