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IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Somali Heritage in the Celebrating Diversity in My Classroom series explores the geography, languages, religions, food, and culture of Somalia in a fun age-appropriate way. Students with Somali heritage are a significant and important part of the fabric of America and this book helps foster empathy in all students and a multicultural community in the classroom. Glossary, index, and additional backmatter aids further learning"--alibris.com
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In this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African history examines the perceptions and responses of Africans to European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This edition of Boahen's text, originally published in 1989, is contextualized in a new foreword by John Lonsdale, updating some of Boahen's findings and interpretations while maintaining that the "best, totally unambiguous, legacy of this republication...
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Embark on a transformative journey with "Relocating to Angola: A Comprehensive Guide," authored by the seasoned traveler and relocation expert, William Jones. This indispensable guide is your key to unlocking the mysteries of Angola, a nation of diverse landscapes, vibrant cultures, and unparalleled beauty.Are you considering a move to Angola for work, adventure, or perhaps a change of scenery? Look no further. William Jones, drawing on his wealth...
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Imagine being, stranded in the heart of winter, in an isolated town at the northern edge of the world. Though born on the continent of Africa, political officials have made citizenship and social mobility at home difficult for many youth and young adults to realize. And so, some flee to Europe, seeking help in "Babylon", and are told to wait. And, wait. This fictionalized true story brings to life the never-before-published experiences of African...
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Unmaking Migrants engages critical questions about preventing trafficking by preventing migration through a study of a shelter for trafficking victims in Lagos, Nigeria.
Over the past fifteen years, antitrafficking personnel have stopped thousands of women from traveling out of Nigeria and instead sent them to the federal counter-trafficking agency for investigation, protection, and rehabilitation. Government officials defend this form of intervention...
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This is the story of a young Rwandan refugee now living in the UK. Christophe is having trouble getting used to his new school, new language and new life. Life has been very lonely for him. Most of all he misses his grandfather who they had to leave behind. His teacher persuades Christophe to share his story with his classmates - so he tells them of the terrifying day the soldiers came to his house and killed his baby brother. The spoken story fills...
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Un enfant camerounais raconte sa perception de la culture et du mode de vie français qu'il découvre...
Onana, dix ans, quitte son pays natal, le Cameroun, et arrive en France avec sa mère. Le jeune garçon est impressionné par l'immense aéroport, les transports modernes et confortables, les supermarchés, l'opulence apparente. Il est également heureux de revoir son père qui les a précédés quelques années plus tt. Mais Onana est surpris...
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Nobody knew, nobody dreamed, nobody even considered the possibility that a bird that fits in your hand might fly halfway around the world looking for a place to nest . . . or that a young girl from northern Africa might flee halfway around the world looking for safety. This is the story of Bird. This is the story of Leila. This is the story of a chance encounter and a long journey home.
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Volume 2 of this two-volume biography of Lord Randolph Churchill details the middle and twilight years of Lord Randolph's meteoric career, during which he served as Leader of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Winston Churchill would become known for his sweeping biographies of historical figures, including his ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough. His first biography, however, was that of his own father. An ambitious work written...
10) Boundless sky
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AD 570L
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"Nobody knew, nobody dreamed, nobody even considered the possibility that a bird that fits in your hand might fly halfway around the world looking for a place to nest . . . or that a young girl from northern Africa might flee halfway around the world ..."--Provided by publisher.
11) Cold white sun
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"A stranger-than-fiction story based on the real-life experiences of a young boy who was smuggled out of Ethiopia amid political unrest to start a new life from nothing in Calgary, Alberta."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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790L
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In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her.
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Un mini-roman plein d'émotions!
Après la mort de ses parents, alors qu'il était encore tout petit, Zaccharie avait été recueilli en France par un arrière-grand-oncle. À la mort de ce dernier, lorsque le jeune homme revient en Afrique, c'est un adolescent moqueur. Son éducation et sa culture désormais fortement occidentales ont fait de lui, sans qu'il en prenne réellement conscience, un apatride...
Plus on lit, mieux on lit. Récits Express,...
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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach. In twenty-one symbolic chapters, each preceded by a picture, Mosebach offers a travelogue of his encounter with a foreign culture and a church...
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In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali--visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these Americans to Ghana and how their new community was shaped by the convergence of the Cold War,...
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The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering...
17) The Negro
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. "The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archaeological research in Africa has just begun, and many sources of information in Arabian, Portuguese, and other tongues are not fully at our command;...
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In March of 2020, the cosmopolitan
daughter of Saharawi refugees travels to visit her family in the forgotten refugee
city-camps scattered in the Western Sahara desert. What was supposed to be a
long-awaited homecoming becomes a comically desperate adventure escaping border
guards and surviving on candy bars, all the while trying to avoid losing her
cool with unwanted and unlikely traveling companions.
At the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak,...
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"A candid, inspiring memoir of cultural and historical importance" from an Eritrean-Ethiopian War refugee (Michael Bloomberg).
Dawit Gebremichael Habte fled his homeland of Eritrea as a teenager. In the midst of the ongoing Eritrean-Ethiopian war, Dawit and his sisters crossed illegally into Kenya. Without their parents or documents to help their passage, they experienced the abuse and neglect known by so many refugees around the world.
But Dawit...
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