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Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye $ 11.00Add to cart11+ years
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.
It is a story about yearning to ‘return’ to the ancestral village his people were forced to leave and not allowed to return.
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Mr. Policeman – Nursery Rhymes 2 $ 6.16Add to cart0 – 3 years
The rhymes in Mr. Policeman book deal with jobs and occupations. Some may not be familiar to the city child of today, like the buggy driver, the shoeshine boy but others, like the carpenter, doctor and policeman are. The rhymes are fun to sing along and connect children to their roots.
Titles of the rhymes in this books are:
- Mr. Policeman
- This is What He Does
- The Tomato Seller
- The Bread Seller
- Oh Stonemason …
- The Barber
- Abu Mahmoud
- The Shoeshine Boy
- My Grandfather is a Farmer
- Today is My Birthday
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Against the Tide $ 11.00Add to cart11+ years
After the tragic death of her elder brother, and an unfortunate accident that leaves her father paralyzed and bound to his wheelchair, Yusra’s family is forced to beg for handouts from their neighbors. Between her family’s struggles and the restrictions of life in occupied Palestine, Yusra feels like the walls are closing in on her.
Then she has an idea: she decides to fix up her father’s fishing boat and take up his trade to become the first and only fisher woman in Gaza.
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