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Road to Damascus
Spanning 30 years, Road to Damascus is the true story of sisters, Suzan and Jigi. Separated as children they are brought up in different countries, neither knowing of the other whereabouts. Twelve year old Suzan is taken by her mother to Amman, Jordan, after the death of her father in 1965. But Jigi, Suzan's baby sister and born with a rare bone disease, is left behind in a south London hospital. Their mother promises the authorities that she will return to London after she has buried her husband, but she doesn't. Moving from hospital to a children's home in Oxfordshire, Jigi knows little of her family background, or that she has a sister at all. Armed with a cast-iron determination not to c...
When We Become Ours
"An emotion-filled collection." —Kirkus Reviews Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to find her community . . . A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost . . . There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres. These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences. This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives. With stories by: Kelley Baker Nicole Chung Shannon Gibney Mark Oshiro MeMe Collier Susan Harness Meredith Ireland Mariama J. Lockington Lisa Nopachai Stefany Valentine Matthew Salesses Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom Eric Smith Jenny Heijun Wills Sun Yung Shin Foreword by Rebecca Carroll Afterword by JaeRan Kim, MSW, PhD
Relationship-Based Care for Infants and Toddlers
Learn how to create and nurture communities of care for diverse children, families, and practitioners through responsive practice. In this text, the social and emotional worlds of babies and toddlers, their peers, and their caregivers come to life in the everyday moments of infant-toddler care and education. The authors show infants and toddlers as active, agentic, and intentional social partners from the start of life, highlighting their unique capacities for social engagement with both adults and peers. Interwoven within each chapter’s narrative are insights culled from extensive observations, teacher interviews, and video analyses. Part I emphasizes play, peer friendships, and humor as ...
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth.
Japanese/Korean Linguistics
The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference is a site for research on Japanese and Korean in a variety of areas, as well as comparative research on similarities and difference between the two languages. The papers included in this volume are from the 20th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the University of Oxford. The contributions include studies in syntax, semantics, phonology, prosody, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, historical linguistics, dialects, discourse, functional linguistics, and first and second language acquisition. This volume deepens our understanding of both languages in these provide a useful reference for students and scholars in these fields.
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