Their focus is "developing the whole child" in an environment that builds confidence and self-esteem while celebrating diversity. On the main stage they perform 200 times each year with cast members ages 8-18, while in the classroom and summer camps, they educate more than 1,200 children and...
Prologue Opening: “My name is Crow. When I was a baby, someone tucked me into an old boat and pushed me out to sea. I washed up on a tiny island, like a seed riding the tide. It was Osh who found me and took me in. Who taught me how to put down roots, and thrive on bot...
among other things, Trump’s unlawful incarceration of immigrants. My experiences on the border and at immigrant detention centers in my home state of Illinois have left me with no doubt whatsoever that our nation is warehousing humanity in concentration camps—and that Rep. Alexandria...
Narumiya-san explained Sokoage’s broad aims to provide opportunities for youth in the area, foster community, cultivate connections across generations, and support camps and programs for college students to engage with their Miyagi Prefecture communities from wherever they may be based. The SokoageFa...
settings are unimaginably descriptive and believable. It is easy to get lost in the realistic plot where you can smell the sweat of laboring men digging trenches, hear the nearby exploding cannon balls and feel the bone-chilling cold of nights in the camps. The pacing keeps readers fully ...
Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids, like Avery Sanders. Avery always has stories to tell about her fun weekends, and since she can afford to go to fancy soccer camps, she’ll probably be named the captain of their team. But then Avery starts talking to ...
A touching story about Japanese American children who corresponded with their beloved librarian while they were imprisoned in World War II internment camps. From The Children’s War: “Write to Me is the story of one San Diego librarian, Clara Breed, who saw the injustice of incarcerating inno...
This labor of love was inspired after Dr. Clune’s husband was asked to respond to a crisis last spring in Niger to set up refugee camps to cope with those pouring across the Malian border in hopes of escaping the civil war. She began to share her husband’s experiences in Sahel with ...
Melody, the huge-hearted heroine ofOut of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even summer camp. Therehaveto be camps for differently-abled kids like her, and she’s going to sleuth one out. A pla...
Bill. Bill quickly educates Nate about the rails — when to get on and off, how to hide his possessions in his shoes, and the dangers he may encounter. He learns that the homeless are called “hoboes” and that they have “jungle” camps in towns near train routes. They offer a plac...