Amina Through My Eyes

Author : J.L. Powers
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743431309
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amina: Through My Eyes written by J.L. Powers and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing him to become a soldier in Somalia's brutal ongoing war. Although her mother and grandmother are still with her, Amina feels vulnerable and abandoned. Secretly, she begins to create her own artwork in the streets and the derelict buildings to give herself a sense of hope and to let out the burden of her heart. Her artwork explodes into Mogadishu's underground world, providing a voice for people all over the city who hope for a better, more secure future. 'This touching story brings home vividly the dangers of creating art that seeks to be true - and all the more so during a vicious civil war, interwoven with religious extremism. Thankfully, Amina's teenage curiosity and courage also signal hope.' - Beverley Naidoo, author of Carnegie Medal Winner The Other Side of Truth

Author : J.L. Powers
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743312490
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amina: Through My Eyes written by J.L. Powers and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then, rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother. She reacts by creating street art to give herself a sense of hope and to share with people all over the city who hope for a better, more secure future.

Author : Hena Khan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534459898
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amina's Song written by Hena Khan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.

Author : Amina Luqman-Dawson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 031605674X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freewater written by Amina Luqman-Dawson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Newbery Medal Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. After an entire young life of enslavement, twelve-year-old Homer escapes Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, leaving his beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the recesses of the swamp. In this new, free society made up of escaped slaves and some born-free children, Homer cautiously embraces a set of spirited friends, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater, he hatches a plan to return to Southerland plantation, overcome his own cautious nature, and free his mother from enslavement. Loosely based on a little-mined but important piece of history, this is an inspiring and deeply empowering story of survival, love, and courage.

Author : Amina Gautier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803256906
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now We Will Be Happy written by Amina Gautier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles. Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.

Author : Judith Gardner
Publisher : CIIR
ISBN 13 : 9780745322087
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somalia - The Untold Story written by Judith Gardner and published by CIIR. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences of women in Somalia and how they have survived the trauma of war.

Author : Amina Cain
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718733
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelicacy written by Amina Cain and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Cain’s small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic." —The New York Times Book Review A haunted feminist fable, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor—social and erotic—but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing, class, desire, anxiety, pleasure, friendship, and the battle to find one’s true calling.

Author : Rosanne Hawke
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743312466
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shahana: Through My Eyes written by Rosanne Hawke and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone: Shahana, a young girl living in war-torn Kashmir.

Author : Nell Freudenberger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958442
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Newlyweds written by Nell Freudenberger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is the twenty-first century: she is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online. For Amina, George offers a chance for a new life for her and her parents, as well as a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn't play games. But each of them is hiding something: someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when Amina returns to Bangladesh that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together.

Author : Hena Khan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481492063
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amina's Voice written by Hena Khan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--]cProvided by publisher.