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#1 New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author of The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander, pens a powerful picture book that tells the story of American slavery through the voice of a teacher struggling to help her students understand its harrowing history.
From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament to the resilience of the African American community, this book honors what has been and envisions what is to be.
With stunning mixed-media illustrations by newcomer Dare Coulter, this is a potent book for those who want to speak the truth. Perfect for family sharing, the classroom, and homeschooling.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Beautifully crafted and brutally honest, this offers a thoughtful introduction to a necessary topic."
—Booklist, starred review
"With powerful art from a bold new talent, this is a probing and sensitive take on a devastating chapter of U.S. history."—Kirkus, starred review
"Alexander and Coulter have created a powerful counternarrative in their efforts to answer the question, 'How do you tell a story about slavery?'”—Horn Book
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Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors. Where did these values come from? How have they failed those on the edges of our society? And how can we disentangle ourselves from our culture's headlong pursuit of these values and live faithful lives of service to God and our neighbors?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sooooo good. Powerful
- De D. Frazier en 08-19-21
De: D.L. Mayfield
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Breathe
- A Letter to My Sons
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Imani Perry
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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Breathe explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African-American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry offers an unfettered expression of love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful peek into the heart & soul of a mother
- De Treesey en 10-08-19
De: Imani Perry
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Redemption Song
- A Novel
- De: Bertice Berry
- Narrado por: E. Kane
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Owner of a small African American bookshop, Miss Cozy has an unique gift: Customers who walk through her door rarely leave without a book that speaks directly to their life. But when Josephine - "Fina" - and Ross arrive in search of an obscure, unpublished manuscript written by a slave woman, Miss Cozy knows that all her visions have been leading her to this magical day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read
- De Amazon Customer en 12-18-19
De: Bertice Berry
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The Course of Human Events
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 778
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On May 15, 2003, David McCullough presented "The Course of Human Events" as The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Lecture is a tribute to McCullough's lifetime investigation of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Pitch for History
- De Alan en 09-13-05
De: David McCullough
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Social Justice Parenting
- How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World
- De: Traci Baxley
- Narrado por: Traci Baxley
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher — in more ways than one. Not only did they take on remote school supervision, but after the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice — with few resources to guide them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring, motivating, practical
- De Heather Janetzko en 03-18-24
De: Traci Baxley
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The Story You Need to Tell
- Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
- De: Sandra Marinella, Christina Baldwin - foreword
- Narrado por: Allison Reilly
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get a physical copy
- De Aileen Hadaway en 01-23-20
De: Sandra Marinella, y otros
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The Art of Inventing Hope
- Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
- De: Howard Reich
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 81
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The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida - and spoke often on the phone - to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich's father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune evolved into a friendship and partnership.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a view into post holocaust survivors recovery
- De Lance Strosser en 02-17-21
De: Howard Reich
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Witness
- De: Ariel Burger
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age 15. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and, in time, teacher. In this profoundly hopeful, thought-provoking, and inspiring audiobook, Burger takes us into Elie Wiesel's classroom, where the art of listening and storytelling conspire to keep memory alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching and enlightening
- De Yakira Colish en 03-12-19
De: Ariel Burger
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To Be Told
- God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future
- De: Dan B. Allender PhD
- Narrado por: William Sarris
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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God wants to reveal himself through your story. Discover how he has written your life so far and how he is leading you into the rest of your story. Everyone wants clearer guidance from God on what to do with their future. In this insightful book, therapist and Professor Dan Allender shows you how to listen to the stories of your life and identify the themes that God has written there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought Provoking and Inspiring
- De michelle deuz en 04-10-21
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- De: Kiese Laymon
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
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Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in the rural Mississippi Gulf Coast. Laymon's writing is unflinchingly honest, while also being smart, lacerating, and unexpectedly funny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm Stunned By This Collection
- De Rachel en 10-17-17
De: Kiese Laymon
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Dirt
- A Novel
- De: Teffanie Thompson
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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Washington would rather be playing basketball in the tournament instead of traveling to East Texas for a family reunion. He hates to read, but takes off on his own with a book to satisfy his parents. Washington travels back to the past where he encounters his ancestor Square and witnesses the brutal punishment of a slave when he is caught reading.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dirt, a sensational work of art
- De Rose T. en 11-06-19
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We Want Our Bodies Back
- Poems
- De: Jessica Care Moore
- Narrado por: Jessica Care Moore
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
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Over the past two decades, Jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just beautiful.
- De @oil_house_ (IG) en 02-25-21
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Known
- Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World
- De: Dick Foth, Ruth Foth
- Narrado por: Dick Foth, Ruth Foth
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In a shallow light-speed world, how can we really know and be known by another person? How do we make true friends? The Digital Age is all about change, but the need for true friendship never changes. We are designed for real engagement with others - for affirmation that goes beyond a simple "like" on social media, for connection over meals, for hope and excitement about the future. Above all, we need to be known and accepted for who we are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the Foths
- De Jenni B en 07-22-17
De: Dick Foth, y otros
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The Power of a Woman's Words
- How the Words You Speak Shape the Lives of Others
- De: Sharon Jaynes
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Duración: 8 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 61
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Words are one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and they can be used for good or evil. When God created our world, He did so with words. He said Let there be...and it was so. While our words cannot bring into existence things that are not, they do have the power to build courage into a husband's life, instill confidence into a child's heart, fan into flames the dying embers of a friend's smoldering dreams, and draw the lost to Christ. This book is for every woman who desires to use her words to build up rather than tear down....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life changing!
- De paris Cuevas en 05-19-20
De: Sharon Jaynes
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As his family prepares for winter, a young, skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping—the same mountain where his two older brothers died. When he reaches the mountaintop, he is immediately confronted by a terrifying eagle god named Savik. Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like your brothers. What comes next is a harrowing journey to the home of the eagle gods and unexpected lessons on the natural world, the past that shapes us, and the community that binds us.
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Mom never had long hair—she was told it was too wild. Grandma couldn’t have long hair—hers was taken from her. But one young girl can’t wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth, and to honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
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Rhea's neighborhood is fading away—the mom-and-pop shops of her childhood forced out to make space for an artisanal kombucha brewery here, a hot yoga studio there. And everywhere, the feeling that this place is no longer meant for her. Because while their little corner of South L.A. isn't perfect, to Rhea and her two best friends, it's something even more important—it's home. And it's worth protecting. But as more white people flock to their latest edgy, urban paradise, more of Rhea's friends and family are pushed out. Until Rhea decides it's time to push back.
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Jovita dreamed of wearing pants like her brothers, Ramón and Luciano. She hated the way the big skirts that Abuela made her wear tangled around her legs as she scaled the tallest mesquite tree in Rancho Palos Blancos. She wanted to ride her horse Morongo and feel the wind curl her face into a smile.
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Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance. But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he'd do anything to forget: the story in which he's the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting. Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone—the only place in America where the internet is banned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story!
- De Lopez en 03-15-24
De: Erin Bow
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Gather
- De: Kenneth M. Cadow
- Narrado por: Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Ian Gray isn’t supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn’t happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian’s adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends, and his fondness for the outdoors and for fixing things lands him work helping neighbors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Real Deal
- De Amazon Customer en 05-04-24
De: Kenneth M. Cadow
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The Mona Lisa Vanishes
- A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
- De: Nicholas Day
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the Director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating true thriller!
- De Katrina en 11-26-23
De: Nicholas Day
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Unspeakable
- The Tulsa Race Massacre
- De: Carole Boston Weatherford
- Narrado por: January LaVoy, Carole Boston Weatherford
- Duración: 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Tracing the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district, this book chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a White mob attacked the Black community. News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation into the Tulsa Race Massacre occurred for 75 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good brief history
- De W. Scott en 12-08-22
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Stars of the Night
- The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
- De: Caren B. Stelson
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
- Duración: 33 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
This powerful story is told from the collective perspective of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. The narrative starts in 1938 and follows the children as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the war, return to Prague afterward in an unsuccessful search for their parents, and eventually connect with Nicholas Winton, a British former stockbroker who was instrumental in bringing them to safety.
De: Caren B. Stelson