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Akbar, Said Hydar
Come Back to Afghanistan: a California Teenager's Story
DS352.A39 2005
Californian teen Said Akbar tells of his travels to his parents' native Afghanistan.
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Anthony, Lawrence with Graham Spence
Babylon's Ark: the Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
QL76.5.I722 B342 2007
What happens to animals when a war's going on? Learn the incredible story of the Baghdad Zoo.
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Barakat, Ibtisam
Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood
DS119.7.B2845 2007
The author recounts how, as a child, her world was shattered by the Six-Day War.
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Hakakian, Roya
Journey From the Land of No: a Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
E184.I5 H35 2004
A childhood and adolescence in Iran is recounted in this exciting memoir.
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Hensel, Jana
After the Wall: Confessions From an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next
HQ799.G3 H45613 2004
Hensel's childhood ended on Nov. 9, 1989, the evening the Berlin Wall fell. Almost overnight, the East
Germany that had surrounded the 13- year-old and her peers in a woolly Communist Party cocoon ceased to
exist, swallowed by the West. This is the story of what came next.
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Jiang, Ji-Li
Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
DS778.7.J53 1997
The story of Ji-Jiang, a twelve-year-old girl growing up in China in 1966, the year that Chairman Mao launched the Cultural Revolution.
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Steinberger, Aimee Major
Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan
A professional animator with a passion for all things cute, Aimee captures the world of Japanese pop-culture
in a manga journal that is both adorable and breathtaking. This rapid-fire adventure is full of everything
fans dream of seeing.
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Zenatti, Valerie
When I Was a Soldier
U55.Z5 A3 2005
What is it like to be a young woman in a war? At a time when Israel is in the news every day and politics in
the Middle East are as complex as ever before, this story of one girl's experience in the Israeli National Army
is both topical and fascinating.
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