Ethnic Lit Class

1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one.

ตำนานแห่งการต่อสู้ชีวิตสุดยิ่งใหญ่ ของ “เหลียง” ลูกผู้ชายสายเลือดมังกร คุณธรรมที่สั่งสม และพร่ำสอนลูกหลาน สามารถกอบกู้ชื่อเสียง และความภาคภูมิใจของตัวเขาเองกลับคืนมาได้อีกครั้งหลังจากที่ทายาทของเขาบางคนหลงเดินในทางที่ผิด ซึ่งทำร้ายทั้งตัวของตัวเอง และทำให้ชื่อเสียงของตระกูลตกต่ำ

Winner of the Mildred Batchelder Award, this very human novel of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is both touching and timely Nothing could be more frightening to Samir, a Palestinian boy, than to be where he is an Israeli hospital ward, trapped among the very people he blames for his brother's death. Amid this explosive atmosphere, Samir begins to learn about the Israeli kids around him. He discovers their hurts and conflicts - and hesitantly begins to share his own. This is a story of violence and healing - the story of a boy facing the enemy he has been taught to fear.