Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage Parvana is imprisoned by American soldiers in Afghanistan. While waiting to find out her fate, she remembers the past four years of her life, finally reunited with her mother and sisters, and finally getting an education. But many in Afghanistan don't believe girls should be educated, and that means Parvana and her family are in danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the children of soldiers--men and women who have been called away from their families to fight in a faraway war. In their own words, some of these children describe how their experience has marked and shaped their lives.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession. Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's hand knitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But...
4) Sacred Leaf
Author
Series
Cocalero novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
After he finally manages to escape from being a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation, Diego is taken in by the Ricardo family -- poor coca farmers who provide a safe haven while he recovers from his ordeal in the jungle. But even that brief respite comes to an end when the army moves in and destroys the family's coca crop -- and their livelihood. Diego eventually joins the cocaleros as they protest the destruction of their crops by barricading...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request