#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Genocide, revised & expanded edition

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Cover of Genocide

First published in 2006, this revised and expanded edition of Genocide updates information and case studies through the beginning of 2024. This allows the author to address both the brutal October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israeli communities and a music festival, and the Israeli Defense Force’s bombardment of and withholding of humanitarian supplies from Palestinian … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Genocide, revised & expanded edition

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Boy from Clearwater, Book 1

Posted on by Klem-Marí Cajigas

Named to the 2024 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult Book Prize shortlist, The Boy from Clearwater tells the story of Tsai Kun-Lin, "an ordinary boy" born in Qingshui District on the western coast of Taiwan. Tsai Kun-Lin's story, however, is nothing short of extraordinary. It is a story of surviving military occupation, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Boy from Clearwater, Book 1

#Yiddishlitmonth: Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt

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by David Stromberg Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, Vol. I: The War Years, 1939-1945By Isaac Bashevis SingerTranslated and edited by David StrombergPublished by White Goat PressISBN 9798987707890Purchase the book Isaac Bashevis Singer, the only Yiddish writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the few Yiddish writers well known in English for … Continue reading #Yiddishlitmonth: Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt

#INTLYALITMONTH: Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

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Review by Lauren Elliott Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Grass is a powerful oral history in graphic novel style that tells the story of 15-year-old Lee Ok-Sun, who was taken prisoner and forced to become a “comfort woman” for the invading Japanese Army during World War II. Comfort Women is the term commonly used to … Continue reading #INTLYALITMONTH: Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

#IntlYALitMonth: Abigail

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Abigail by Magda Szabó, translated from the Hungarian by Len Dix Who doesn't love a boarding school novel? Especially one written by an author who actually experienced life within a similar one for herself? Hungarians love this book so much, they voted it their third most-beloved novel during the Hungarian Big Read of 2005. So … Continue reading #IntlYALitMonth: Abigail