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The Bird FlewAdd to cart3 – 5 years$ 7,00
While Jad is playing in the garden, a bird falls on the ground right in front of him. Jad gently carries the bird and tries to revive it, then he and his sister Tala put the bird in a box in Jad’s room. They make sure the door remains closed to protect the bird from their cat Fustuq.
The next day the bird is nowhere to be found. Whatever happened to the bird and where did it go?
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The Mystery of the Falcon’s EyeAdd to cart11+ years$ 10,00
17-year-old Ziad who lives in Qalandia refugee camp finds himself the sole bread winner of his family after his activist father gets arrested and becomes an administrative prisoner.
We first meet Ziad while he’s selling hot tea to a long line of people waiting in their cars to cross the checkpoint. Ziad lives with his great grandmother, mother, sister and younger brother. His great Grandma is senile and keeps repeating stories of the past but there is one story – in particular- that never changes. It is the story of the family’s lost gold left in their village – Lifta – when they were forced to flee during the war.
Ziad makes it his mission to find this gold which takes him on a treacherous journey back to his ancestral village. An exciting and moving story full of action and suspense. It is also a story about what it means to be a refugee, living under occupation in a refugee camp generation after generation.
It is a story about yearning to ‘return’ to the ancestral village his people were forced to leave and not allowed to return.
