Laurel Holliday: 4 books
Children of the Troubles
Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In this remarkable second book in the Children of Conflict series, Laurel Holliday presents a powerful collection of young people's memories of growing up in the midst of the violence in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles."
"All my life I have been afraid. When it would get dark I would lie in...
Children of the Dream
Our Own Stories Growing Up Black in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
"I let somebody call me 'nigger.' It wasn't just any old body, either; it was my friend. That really hurt."
-- Amitiyah Elayne Hyman
Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed of a day when black children were judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. His eloquent charge...
by Laurel Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by side for the first time in this remarkable book to share powerful feelings and reflections on growing up in one of the world's longest and most dangerous conflicts. Here, thirty-six men and women, boys and girls, tell of their coming-of-age in a land of...
Children in the Holocaust and World War II
Their Secret Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England.
Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through, day after day....