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A powerful novel of enduring friendship set amid the terror and chaos of present-day Afghanistan. Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school and threatens the teacher and students with death. As Tamanna faces an arranged marriage to an older man, and the Taliban targets Yasmine's western-educated family, the girls realize they must flee. Traveling through the heart of Taliban territory, the two unaccompanied young women find themselves in mortal danger. After suffering grave injuries--Tamanna from a fall and Yasmine from a suicide bombing--the girls are left without the one thing that has helped them survive--each other. The book features stunning photographs by award-winning photojournalist Rafal Gerszak (The New York Times, BBC World News) that bring readers an immediate sense of the faces and landscape of Afghanistan.

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"Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis is a refreshing and honest assessment of the importance of accurately and frankly acknowledging that childhood innocence is a Western invention ... Halsall meets all her stated objectives with aplomb and a frankness that makes the book hard to put down." --Cecilia Garrison, International Journal of Comic Art

"Growing Up Graphic makes a necessary and refreshing contribution to heretofore understudied twenty-first-century children's comics. Halsall's use of the theme of crisis to emphasize the multiplicities and diversities of childhood and children's lived experiences around the world is exciting and important." --Lara Saguisag, author of Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics

"By balancing several interrelated arguments regarding comics' role in young people's culture, their pedagogical/didactic value, and their capacity for generating empathy, Growing Up Graphic reflects

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My 12-year-old son and inom are about 20 pages from finishing Yara’s Spring, a book about a young girl and her family who wakes up to a changed world after the Arab Spring, a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. The book does a great job of explaining – as much as it can be explained – what the Syrian war is about and how it has affected its people. It’s a great is a great tool to uppstart a conversation of Syria and the importance of democracy. inom do worry that it’s a little heavy – there fryst vatten a whole lot of awfulness in this book – but I stop reading to make sure it’s not too much and to allow my son to ask questions.

The story fryst vatten “crafted through the lens of (author) Jamal Saeed’s own experience in Syria. Saeed co-authored the book, published bygd Annick Press, with Sharon E. McKay. Saeed answers a number of questions in this powerful Q&am