Alice Mead, Author . Dell/Yearling $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-440-41853-5
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called this story about the Kosovo crisis "powerful and hard-hitting"; it focuses on an Albanian family ravaged by war. Ages 10-up. (Feb.)
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Alice Mead, Author . FSG $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-37288-0
Mead (Adem's Cross; Girl of Kosovo) again places young protagonists at the center of a harrowing international crisis, in this instance focusing on boys forced to flee their homes in southern Sudan. Initial scenes effectively sketch the politics,
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Alice Mead, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (151p) ISBN 978-0-374-31708-9
A solid entry in multicultural literature, Mead (Year of No Rain) once again profiles a country in conflict. Thirteen-year-old Azad lives with his father in the Kurdish town of Sardasht in 1987. He sees his mother whenever he can, but Azad never...
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Alice Mead, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-22735-9
Set in 1993 in a former Yugoslavian province, this drama examines the plight of ethnic Albanians in Serb-occupied Kovoso when one Albanian boy defies authority. ""While the graphic depictions of violence invite sympathy for the Albanians, the...
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Alice Mead, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-32620-3
As in her Adem's Cross, Mead places a human face on the Kosovo crisis by focusing on an Albanian family ravaged by war. Even after her father and brothers are killed and her leg is gravely injured in a Serb attack, 11-year-old Zana, the narrator,...
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Alice Mead, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-33969-2
In Junebug in Trouble by Alice Mead, the third adventure about the 10-year-old hero, he meets up with Robert, an old friend from the housing project where Junebug and his family used to live. When he finds out Robert is running with a gang member,
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Alice Mead, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15 (122p) ISBN 978-0-02-765950-4
``Springbrook, where Gran lived, is like another country'' to Rayanne Sunipass, who has grown up on the reservation on Two Rivers Island, Me. But when her father leaves her and her mother, they are obliged to move from the island to this ``other...
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Alice Mead, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-30057-9
Set in 1993, Mead's (Junebug) timely novel examines the plight of the ethnic Albanians of the former Yugoslavian province of Kovoso, now occupied by Serb forces. Adem has witnessed the tyranny of Serb troops for over four years, and has been taught...
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Alice Mead, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-37124-1
After relating a child's firsthand experience of war in Kosovo in Adem's Cross, Mead turns to the home front for this less harrowing novel set during the time of Operation Desert Storm, told through the eyes of an 11-year-old American. Jasmyn...
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