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Weeping Under This Same Moon

By: Jana Laiz

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Weeping Under This Same Moon, by Jana Laiz is the three time award winning novel, based on the true story of two teenage girls from different cultures, whose paths intertwine, dramatically altering the course of their lives. Mei is an artist whose life has been disrupted by the Vietnam War. Her anguished parents send her away on a perilous escape during the exodus of thousands of Vietnamese refugees known as "Boat People." In Mei's words we learn of the dangers she faces caring for her two younger siblings on a sea journey fraught with hunger, thirst and deprivation, leaving behind everything she loves, to find refuge for her family. Hannah is an angry seventeen-year-old American high school student. Friendless, neurotic, a social misfit - her passion for writing and the environment only intensify her outcast state. Through Hannah's voice, we get inside her head, there to discover a gentle soul beneath all the anger and turmoil. When Hannah learns of the plight of the "Boat People," she is moved to action. Destiny brings Mei and Hannah together in a celebration of cultures and language, food and friendship, and the ultimate rescue of both young women from their own despair. Weeping Under This Same Moon is a testament to the power of love and the spirit of volunteerism; affirming that doing for others does so much for one's self.. Weeping Under This Same Moon won Gold Medal in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for the best in Young Adult Fiction The International Reading Association IRA has named Weeping Under This Same Moon a Notable Book for 2009. Arts Reach Alliance - Valley Reads Selection for 2010

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Crow Flies Press

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0981491006

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Weeping Under This Same Moon

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A Free Woman on God's Earth

The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, the Slave who Won Her Freedom

By: Jana Laiz,Ann-Elizabeth Barnes

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A Free Woman on God's Earth

The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, the Slave who Won Her Freedom

By: Jana Laiz,Ann-Elizabeth Barnes

A Free Woman On God's Earth" The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom is the inspiring story of Mumbet, an enslaved African woman who lived in Sheffield, Massachusetts during Revolutionary War times. Owned by John and Hannah Ashley, Mumbet served eleven patriots as they wrote impassioned letters to King George demanding freedom from the British. Mumbet could not help but overhear their conversations. These Declaration of Grievances became the Sheffield Resolves, or the Sheffield Declaration, the precursor to the Declaration of Independence and the irony of the sentiments in this document was not lost on Mumbet. After a particularly brutal incident, where Mistress Hannah Ashley intends to strike a servant girl with a hot poker from the hearth, Mumbet puts her own arm up to block the blow and is burned to the bone. When she finally heals, she realizes she can no longer live enslaved and waits for the right moment. The moment comes in 1780 with the ratification of the Massachusetts Constitution, making into the law the words, "All men are created free and equal." Mumbet takes these words and used them to sue for her freedom. On August 21, 1781, she becomes a free woman.

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0981491022

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9780981491028

Elephants of the Tsunami

By: Jana Laiz

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Elephants of the Tsunami

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Based on a true story, tells of eight elephants working on the beach in Thailand that sound the alarm and rescue as many people as they can when a tsunami hits.

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A Free Woman on God's Earth

The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, the Slave who Won Her Freedom

By: Jana Laiz,Ann-Elizabeth Barnes

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The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, the Slave who Won Her Freedom

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Weeping Under This Same Moon

Weeping Under This Same Moon

Weeping Under This Same Moon

Weeping Under This Same Moon

A Free Woman on God's Earth

A Free Woman on God's Earth

Elephants of the Tsunami

Elephants of the Tsunami

A Free Woman on God's Earth

A Free Woman on God's Earth

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