Nahid Kazemi
Author
Language
English
Description
When a florist puts two plants in the same rosy-colored pot, he tells the bigger, stronger plant to look after the smaller, weaker one. An artist buys the plants and takes them home, where they become part of the family, celebrating happy occasions and feeling sorrowful during hard times. But as time passes and the plants grow, the pot becomes too small, and the two must be separated. While this makes the larger plant sad, it still rejoices in the...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
c2023.
Language
English
Description
"Little does Bear know, when he emerges from his winter sleep, that he's about meet a special someone who will change his life forever. If he had slept another second, he would have missed the moment -- THE moment -- in a day that started everything. Bird flits and flies from here to there while Bear watches, entranced. And, all the while, Bird sings -- she can even sing upside down! When Bear learns that Bird is practicing to perform in an opera...
4) Zia's story
Author
Publisher
Tradewind Books
Pub. Date
c2024.
Language
English
Description
""You are a man now, take care of your mother," Zia's father whispered to Zia just as he is arrested--never to return home. Soon after that, in 1989, the Russians pull out of Afghanistan, and the country falls into civil war. After the Taliban took over, women were not allowed to work, nor could girls go to school. Zia's Story is based on the author's own experiences as a young mother having to flee an Afghanistan torn apart by war with her young...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Eunice immigre au Canada avec son père et sa
grand-mère. Sa mère ne peut pas les rejoindre
tout de suite. Eunice va alors ressentir un tel
manque qu'elle en perdra la parole. Incapable
de parler, elle vit un blocage total. On va suivre
Eunice dans son attente, dans son quotidien,
dans sa tête, dans ses dessins... Jusqu'au jour
o sa maman revient...
8) Zia's Story
Author
Language
English
Description
"You are a man now, take care of your mother," Zia's father whispered to Zia just as he is arrested-never to return home. Soon after that, in 1989, the Russians pull out of Afghnaistan, and the country falls into civil war. After the Taliban took over, women were not allowed to work, nor could girls go to school. Zia's Story is based on the author's own experiences as a young mother having to flee an Afghanistan torn apart by war with her young son....
Author
Language
English
Description
An old woman shares her home with a scruffy old dog, her best friend and constant companion. One fall day, they go for a walk and the woman throws sticks for the dog. She loves hearing the autumn leaves under her feet and the wind in the trees. She looks up at a crow in the sky and imagines what it might feel like to fly. As the wind comes up and the light begins to fade, she remembers playing outside as a child, never wanting to go in. Suddenly she...
10) Just Bea
Author
Language
English
Description
Big sister is so annoyed with little sister Bea that she wants her gone. But when she cannot find her anywhere, she regrets her earlier wish.
11) Yara's spring
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring.
Growing up in Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone,
...
