A town and its people overcome by pollution is visited by Maya, a little girl who loves trees. Longer story for 5-7 yrs.
Perfect for fans of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms—how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it.
Severely traumatized after suffering genital mutilation in her native Africa, Tashi Johnson spends much of her adult life in North America seeking help through psychoanalysis, desperate to regain the ability to feel. 150,000 first printing. ...
As I reflect on some of the stories Safaa, Rayyan, Ayesha, Zahra, Layla, Maya, and I lived and shared of facing ... I am reminded of how David Carr discusses the need for narrative coherence in our storied lives: “Our lives admit of ...
A source book designed to help school library media specialists balance their collections ethnically. Each ethnic classification lists books in the following categories: non-fiction, biography, folk tales and fiction. Each...
As Brady had warned, I did feel we had crossed a line between worlds. Outside, the jungle changes daily, even hourly: trees fall, animals move, vines flower and wither, sometimes in the same day. Cicadas march in line up a woody trunk ...
In a story told primarily through letters, Principal Russ wants the middle school trees to be trimmed before his administrative evaluation, but the project is interrupted by a town gender war, dueling chefs, student tree protests, and a ...
Later that night, unsettled by the noises around her, Maya revisits the story in her imagination. She ventures deep into the banyan tree, where she discovers not darkness but life: snakes move gently, monkeys laugh, and elephants dance.
In this highly anticipated contemporary fantasy, twelve-year-old Maya’s search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister Dark world.
The Spooky Tree
As you said, love is like a boomerang – love comes back to you every time you send it to someone. I knew that the love that you sent to me might be false, but I couldn't help falling for you. While playing my part in the fake play of ...