The Shepherd's Granddaughter
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Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children, the Society of School Librarians International Best Book Award and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book Ever since she was a little girl, Amani has wanted to be a shepherd, just like her beloved grandfather, Sido. For generations her family has grazed sheep above the olive groves of the family homestead near Hebron, and she has been steeped in Sido's stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos, where the grass is lush and the sheep grow fat, and about the wolf that once showed him the path there. But now Amani's family home is being threatened by encroaching Jewish settlements. As she struggles to find increasingly rare grazing land for her starving sheep, her uncle and brother are tempted to take a more militant stance against the settlers. Then she accidentally meets Jonathan, an American boy visiting his settler father. Away from the pressures of their families, the two young people discover Sido's secret meadow, the domain of a lone wolf. And Amani learns that she must share the meadow, and even her sheep, with the wolf, if she is going to continue to use it.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0888999038
ISBN13:9780888999030
Release Date:February 2010
Publisher:Groundwood Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 6.9"
Age Range:14 years and up
Grade Range:Grades 8 to 9
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Well written fiction showing a conflict from one point of view
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I have looked at this book several times and was always put off by the cover. Last night I started reading it and was immediately drawn in. The story follows independent Amani (starting from age 6 to mid-teens) as she and her close-knit Palestinian family deal with the conflict with Israel. I am not able to speak to the accuracy of the portrayal of politics in the book, and it is obvious this story is told from Amani's point of view. All that aside, the story is riveting, Amani and her family are wonderfully rich characters, and I predict you will find the book hard to put down. This book would spark an interesting discussion on the conflict Mddle East, and could be a stepping stone to finding other books (both fiction and nonfiction) that portrayed the situation from the Israeli point of view. Suggestion to the publisher: add a map, and change the cover.
About unfairness in life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Very incisive depiction of life in the occupied land of Palestine and how to survive the degrading conditions of life under repressive occupation.
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