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Ruta Sepetys “Salt to the Sea”

Joana, Emilia, Florian and Alfred. Four young people with a different story each. “Salt to…

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Rigoberta Menchú & Dante Liano „The Girl From Chimel: Tales From a Mayan Village“

Have you ever looked at the small coloured stones in the river magnified through the…

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Mary Lynn Bracht “White Chrysanthemum”

“Some historians believe fifty thousand to two hundred thousand Korean women and girls were stolen,…

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Michael Morpurgo “Private Peaceful”

This book is a novel of contrasts: the young and the old; the weak and…

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Tan Twan Eng “The Garden of Evening Mists”

“From what you’ve been telling me, it’s just about aesthetics, isn’t it? The garden I…