Thursday, February 18, 2016

I Lived on Butterfly Hill

I Lived on Butterly Hill
by Marjorie Agosín

Celeste Marconi, an intelligent and loving eleven-year old, dreams of nothing more than becoming a writer in her beloved country, Chile. She loves the sounds and colors of her bustling neighborhood of Butterfly Hill until the day the war ships show up in the harbor of her beautiful city. The military has arrived to overthrow the president of Chile and her parents are forced into hiding. Celeste must leave her friends, school, and family behind her to move to the United States with Aunt where it's safe. How will she make new friends when she can't speak English? Will she ever see her Chilean friends and family again? Majorie Agosín, an award winning poet, created a character much like herself who had to live through a dark time in her country's history.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016

A Night Divided

A Night Divided
by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Imagine waking up one morning and a large wall being built in your neighborhood.  Imagine if the wall divided your friends and family members. From the author of The False Prince Series, Jennifer Nielsen's historical fiction novel centers around twelve-year old Gerta, her family, and the rise of the Berlin Wall dividing East Germany and West Germany.  Although the Berlin Wall and all it's horrors did exist, the story of Gerta and her fight to rejoin her family is fictional. She must risk everything to find her father and brother after a wall divides her city in half. Will she survive to rediscover her freedom?


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