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Mia Tang ha molti segreti. 1. NON VIVE IN UNA CASA, MA IN UN MOTEL. Ogni giorno, mentre i suoi genitori, immigrati cinesi, puliscono le camere, Mia accoglie i clienti alla reception e si occupa di loro. 2. I SUOI GENITORI NASCONDONO DEGLI IMMIGRATI. E se il proprietario del motel, il perfido signor Yao, scoprisse che li ospitano gratis nelle stanze libere, la famiglia Tang si ritroverebbe in strada. 3. MIA VUOLE DIVENTARE UNA SCRITTRICE. Ma come fare se la mamma è convinta che invece debba puntare tutto sulla matematica, visto che l'inglese non è la sua madrelingua?

Good and Bad Touches teach children the difference between good and bad touches or unwanted touches that a child may experience at an early age. The book helps parents to be comfortable in describing bad touches. The goal is for the child to tell parents if they are experiencing physical or sexual abuse or to prevent bad touches from progressing to sexual abuse.

The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, “This is my body! What I say goes!”

Orphaned Roo Thorn feels like the unluckiest girl in the world. Until she discovers a letter. A letter which urges her to ‘Grab life by the wings and fly.' With the help of her aunt, Joni, Roo sets out to buy her dream horse – a fiery showjumper named Wonder Boy. Then Wonder vanishes without...

Eleven-year-old Norah lives in temporary accommodation, relies on foodbanks for dinner, and doesn't have a mum. But she's happy enough, as she has a dad, a pet mouse, a pet spider, and a whole zoo of rescued local wildlife to care for. Eleven-year-old Adam lives with his parents in a nice house with a big garden, a private tutor, and everything he could ever want. But his life isn't perfect. He's recovering from leukaemia, and questioning his dream of becoming a champion swimmer. When a nest of baby birds brings them together, Norah and Adam discover they're not so different after all.

Die kleine Linde Cordilla erlebt in ihrer Baumschule eine unbeschwerte Kindheit. Doch diese endet jäh, als eine Bande von Jugendlichen sie schwer misshandelt. Die tiefe Wunde, die Cordilla sowohl äußerlich als auch innerlich davonträgt, raubt ihr jeglichen Lebensmut. Doch das Schicksal meint es gut mit ihr. Dank der Hilfe eines mitfühlenden Mädchens beginnen Cordillas Verletzungen allmählich zu heilen und der junge Baum kann wieder positiv in die Zukunft schauen. Zurück bleibt nur eine Narbe in der Rinde, mit der Cordilla aber zu leben lernt.

From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Last Stop on Market Street comes this moving picture book—adapted for audio—about the perils of perfectionism. Lucas goes to the perfect school in the perfect neighborhood. But life at home is not so perfect. His dad’s old work truck stalls in front...

An unforgettable story of grief and the support of community as a young girl, faced with aching loss, begins to understand that what we love will always be with us. Ayla and her best friend Kiri have always been tree people. They each have their own special tree, and neighbors and family know...

Mari foi pesquisar o segredo da avó — um desenho engraçado que ela tinha no pescoço e parecia um número oito deitado — e descobriu que ele estava em todos os lugares. É assim o infinito. Vencedores de prêmios como Jabuti, FNLIJ e Biblioteca Nacional, Leo Cunha e Alexandre Rampazo se juntam para, de modo sutil e inesperado, nos brindar com textos e imagens que se iluminam e se embalam mutuamente, contando o amor de Mari pela avó... e pelo desconhecido.

Warum wir zu Königen und Sklaven wurden Weshalb sind manche Menschen reich und andere arm? Warum haben manche Leute die Macht, ihren Mitmenschen Befehle zu erteilen – und warum hören die anderen auf sie? Wieso gibt es all die Unterschiede zwischen Menschen verschiedener Hautfarbe und...

Luca hat einen neuen besten Freund: Ezad! Er besucht seit Kurzem dieselbe Klasse, hilft Luca bei den Mathetests, und beide spielen fürs Leben gerne Fussball. Alles wäre prima. Aber warum will sich Ezad nie nach der Schule mit Luca verabreden? Weder ins Kino noch zum Baden kann Ezad mitkommen, denn auf ihm lastet ein schwerwiegendes Geheimnis: Seine Familie lebt illegal in der Schweiz. Durch Zufall kommt ans Licht, was eigentlich niemand erfahren durfte, und Ezad gerät in grosse Gefahr.

In this story the child is invited on a healing journey where their loss is personified as a fictional visitor known as the Loss Total. The narrator models a coping technique as an example for the child dealing with grief of any sort. “The Loss Total” offers a standing invitation to the child. The child will learn that others also experience loss and they can utilize Nature to assist with healing. It allows them to explore their emotions, such as confusion and distress, that grief ushers into to their young worlds.

Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory—but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him a freedom he doesn't have with his domineering dad.

Il profumo dei cedri libanesi, il colore ocra del tardo pomeriggio afghano, il sorriso di un uomo siriano che in silenzio studia un’ospite straniera per capire se raccontarle la propria storia. Sono solo alcune delle nitide immagini che vedremo attraverso lo sguardo oltre il confine di Francesca Mannocchi, giornalista di guerra sul campo che da molti anni porta nelle nostre case la cronaca di ciò che succede attorno a noi, nelle regioni di Iraq, Libano, Afghanistan, Libia, Siria, fino alle città dell’Ucraina.

Razzismo, malattie, terrorismo, cyberbullismo... sono solo alcune tra le realtà del mondo intorno a noi che fanno paura a molti, forse anche a te. E magari anche a te capita, quando qualcosa ti spaventa, di non volerne parlare. Eppure, il modo migliore per sconfiggere la paura è informarsi su ciò che più ci intimorisce. Ma allora perché quando hai il coraggio di fare domande i grandi non sanno cosa risponderti? Per fortuna, con questo libro non ci saranno più quesiti che cadono nel vuoto, né curiosità scomode, proibite o pericolose.

On the verge of her thirteenth birthday, Tess's life is falling apart. Her mother is dead. Her father is like a zombie. And now her beloved cat, Alice, has started running into the street when cars go by, trying to get run over. The only thing Tess can think of that might help? Running away. As she ventures from home, Tess stumbles upon a crew of manga-loving goth kids hiding out in the local haunted house performing seances.

Life is becoming ever more terrifying for the Jewish community as the Second World War envelops their lives. For twelve-year-old Dina and her sisters, things get even harder when their father dies. Their mother must go back to work and despite many objections, the family adjusts to the arrival of their new housekeeper, Nina, who is not Jewish. But Nina’s role changes dramatically when the Nazis invade their small Ukrainian town.

Henny has grown up with her father’s boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the waters between Denmark and Sweden, carried along by the salt breeze. But when Nazi rule tightens in Copenhagen, Henny joins the resistance. And when Hitler orders the Gestapo to round up all Jewish citizens, Henny realizes that the Gerda III isn’t just a boat—it’s a means of escape for her Jewish neighbors. Safety and freedom are just across the channel in Sweden—as long as Henny doesn’t get caught.

Kathy Kacer’s second book in her middle grade series about heroic rescues during WWII tells the tale of siblings Helen and Henry, and history’s most famous mime. Desperate to save them from the Nazis, Henry and Helen’s mother makes the harrowing decision to take her children from their home in 1940s Germany and leave them in the care of strangers in France. The brother and sister must hide their Jewish identity to pass for orphans being fostered at a convent in the foreign land.

As rhythmic as the swish of a loom, and as vibrant as a skein of brightly dyed wool, this lyrical book shares the history and practice of weaving through the centuries and around the world, as imagined by a young weaver learning her craft. At once a celebration of a time-honored art and a meditation on the ways we are interconnected, Woven of the World gathers the threads of weaving—as a technical skill, as a cultural tradition, and as a metaphor for how our lives are knit together—into a radiantly intertwined whole.