Anne Shirley leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her original dream of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia.
When Jim Burden writes a memoir of his childhood in Black Hawk, Nebraska, his story keeps returning to Antonia-the Bohemian immigrant girl who became his closest friend.
When brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan child to help them on the Green Gables farm, Anne Shirley is not the kind of child they have in mind.
When Jim Burden writes a memoir of his childhood in Black Hawk, Nebraska, his story keeps returning to Antonia-the Bohemian immigrant girl who became his closest friend.
When brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan child to help them on the Green Gables farm, Anne Shirley is not the kind of child they have in mind.
Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood-when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street.
Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and PakistanNajmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means "e;star,"e; suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid.
