So Far From Home

Download or read book So Far from Home written by Barry Denenberg and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.

Download or read book Far From Home written by Lorelie Brown and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The marriage was of convenience. The feelings? Not so much.** My name is Rachel. I'm straight ... I think. I also have a mountain of student loans and a smart mouth. I wasn't serious when I told Pari Sadashiv I'd marry her. Except Pari needs a green card, and she's willing to give me a breather from drowning in debt."

Download or read book Too Far From Home written by Naomi Shmuel and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's an Ethiopian; there's an Ethiopian!" I heard them shouting. I looked behind me, but I couldn't see any Ethiopian. Children began crowding round me, and I still didn't realize that they meant me, I was the Ethiopian. Meskerem was born in a small town in the Golan Heights of Israel, to an Ethiopian mother and an American father. Soon after Operation Solomon, when several thousand Ethiopian immigrants were brought to Israel, Meskerem's parents decided to move to the center of the country, to the town of Herzelia. Meskerem comes face-to-face with the ignorance and prejudices of her new classmates, many of whom are meeting someone dark-skinned for the first time. With the help of her Ethiopian grandmother, who remained in Kazerin, Meskerem comes to terms with who she is and finds strength in belonging to three different cultures.

Download or read book So Far from Home written by Glenn J. Farris and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Away from Home written by Anita Lobel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original alphabet book with an international flavor, the acclaimed author/artist takes her characters and her audience on a whirlwind tour of the world's wonders. From Adam arriving in Amsterdam to Zachary zigzagging in Zaandam, magnificent illustrations entice young readers to linger on every page.

Download or read book So Far from Home written by Margaret J. Wheatley and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheatley provides encouraging maps for how to design organizations based on living systems' capacity for creativity, change, and adaptation. But in the 20 years since the first publication, she's seen that in spite of our best efforts the world that's emerged is on a destructive trajectory.

Download or read book So Far from Home written by Ann Knope & Krystyna Stachowicz Farley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first hand account of a Polish family's experience during the deconstruction of Poland by Hitler and Stalin as seen through the eyes of a feisty 14 year old girl, Krystyna Stachowicz. Krystyna is a living witness to the unraveling of the Second Polish Republic when they were left to face alone the Nazi and Communist threat to the free world, while the rest of the world looked the other way.