by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
This book is about genocide — what it is, why it happens, what can be done to prevent it from happening again. The book explores: Darfur and other genocides in history the controversies in defining and recognizing genocide racism, colonialism and genocide theories...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Hélène is a young girl who lives in Montreal with her mother and twin brothers. When the book opens, Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies, and her loving mother is too tired to be any...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave — the hope that lies behind their...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards. Should she help him? After all, she’s just a cat. Or is...
