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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: safety matters
This writing spiritually, passionately, and intellectually
addressesthe issues surrounding the silence of both church and
secularcommunity concerning violence against women. The
authorshares a model of ministry that engaged women who
courageouslydescribe their victimization, bringing the reader into
the heart oftheir woundedness. This ministry model has proven
effective inbreaking the silence of abuse while providing a safe,
nurturingenvironment in which victims of abuse may begin the
lengthyprocess of healing. This book is a must-read for women
andmen alike, as we are all somehow associated with a
femalevictim-survivor of violence and abuse.
Ketchvar III travels to Earth to inhabit the body of an average
teenager and assess the damage humans have done to their planet.
But even his highly advanced alien intelligence can't prepare him
for life as an American teen.
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Squirrel the Bully
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Asa Ahimbisibwe; Illustrated by Pranjal Dani
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Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book Award Winner
of the Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Shortlisted for the YA
Book Prize, Diverse Book Award and Iris Award Longlisted for the YA
Jhalak Prize Nobody free till everybody free. Moa is fourteen. The
only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane
plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the
overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the
charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the
freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But
before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their
first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is
ticking, and the day of the uprising approaches . . . Irresistible,
gripping and unforgettable, Cane Warriors follows the true story of
Tacky's War in Jamaica, 1760.
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