A Girl Made of Dust
Title | A Girl Made of Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Nathalie Abi-Ezzi |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007259042 |
Eight-year-old Ruba lives in a village outside Beirut. From her family home, she can see the buildings shimmering on the horizon and the sea stretched out beside them. She can also hear the rumble of the shelling - this is Lebanon in the 1980s and civil war is tearing the country apart.
A Girl Made of Dust
Title | A Girl Made of Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Nathalie Abi-Ezzi |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2011-03-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0385672233 |
A first novel with tremendous heart, which captures both a country and a childhood in turmoil. Ten-year-old Ruba lives in a village outside Beirut. From her family home, she can see the buildings shimmering on the horizon and the sea stretched out beside them. She can also hear the rumble of the shelling – this is Lebanon in the 1980s and civil war is tearing the country apart. Ruba however has her own worries. Her father hardly ever speaks and spends most of his days sitting in his armchair, avoiding work and family. Her mother looks so sad that Ruba thinks her heart might have withered in the heat like a fig. Her elder brother, Naji, has started to spend his time with older boys – and some of them have guns. When Ruba decides she has to save her father, and when she uncovers his secret, she begins a journey which takes her from childhood to the beginnings of adulthood.
Dust Girl
Title | Dust Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Zettel |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0375869387 |
On the day in 1935 when her mother vanishes during the worst dust storm ever recorded in Kansas, Callie learns that she is not actually a human being.
A Girl Made of Dust
Title | A Girl Made of Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Nathalie Abi-Ezzi |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2009-04-14 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN | 0385667531 |
A first novel with tremendous heart, which captures both a country and a childhood in turmoil. Ten-year-old Ruba lives in a village outside Beirut. From her family home, she can see the buildings shimmering on the horizon and the sea stretched out beside them. She can also hear the rumble of the shelling – this is Lebanon in the 1980s and civil war is tearing the country apart. Ruba however has her own worries. Her father hardly ever speaks and spends most of his days sitting in his armchair, avoiding work and family. Her mother looks so sad that Ruba thinks her heart might have withered in the heat like a fig. Her elder brother, Naji, has started to spend his time with older boys – and some of them have guns. When Ruba decides she has to save her father, and when she uncovers his secret, she begins a journey which takes her from childhood to the beginnings of adulthood.
Dust Bowl Girls
Title | Dust Bowl Girls PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Reeder |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1616204664 |
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
Words in the Dust
Title | Words in the Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Trent Reedy |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 054557806X |
Winner of the Christopher Medal and a "heart-wrenching" Al Roker's Book Club selection on the Today Show. Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing. Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the Afghan poetry she taught her late mother. And the Americans come to her village, promising not just new opportunities and dangers, but surgery to fix her face. These changes could mean a whole new life for Zulaikha--but can she dare to hope they'll come true?
Dust
Title | Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345802543 |
A Washington Post Notable Book When a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried, precipitating a series of events no one could have foreseen. As the truth unfolds, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, hidden deep within the shared past of a family and their conflicted nation. Spanning Kenya’s turbulent 1950s and 1960s, Dust is spellbinding debut from a breathtaking new voice in literature.