Patricia McCormick crafts powerful and unsettling stories for young adults that often delve into complex psychological and social issues. Her literary style is incisive and empathetic, revealing characters' inner lives and their struggles with trauma, addiction, and self-harm. As a journalist, she has honed an ability to ground her narratives in compelling and realistic settings. McCormick is distinguished by her courageous approach to sensitive subject matter, offering readers profound reflection.
Life is harsh in the mountain village in Nepal where Lakshmi works hard alongside her mother to look after the family. When her stepfather finds her a job in the city, Lakshmi dreams of making her family proud. The reality is different: Lakshmi has been sold into a life of sexual slavery.
I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. Shot in the head at point blank range while riding the bus home from school, few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in Northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest ever nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, and of Malala's parents' fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. It will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.
You say it's up to me to do the talking. You lean forward and your black leather chair groans, like a living thing. Like the cow it was before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink's office in a loony bin...
A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met? What keeps you up all night?This remarkable collection of award-winning and bestselling authors is thought provoking, insightful, heartfelt, and powerful.
My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
Five years on from the publication of her internationally bestselling memoir, WE ARE DISPLACED presents true stories of the refugee experience interwoven with Malala's own story of her displacement
This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge. Based on the true story of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, and authentically told from his point of view as a young boy, this is an achingly raw and powerful historical novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace. It includes an author's note and acknowledgments from Arn Chorn-Pond himself. When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children dying before his eyes. One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. Arn's never played a note in his life, but he volunteers. This decision will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. And just as the country is about to be liberated, Arn is handed a gun and forced to become a soldier. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
Es ist nicht gerade einfach, so zu tun, als wäre alles normal, wenn dein Bruder völlig bekifft auf dem Sofa hängt, zusammen mit einem Kerl, der ziemlich minderbemittelt aussieht, während jeden Moment deine total gestresste und womöglich todkranke Mutter und dein ahnungsloser Cowboy-spielender kleiner Bruder zur Tür rein kommen könnten. Nein, Toby hat es mit seiner Familie wirklich nicht leicht! 'Ein lebendiger und bewegender Roman.' The New York Times
Bonbonpapier am StacheldrahtAls Matt aufwacht, liegt er im Lazarett. Schädel-Hirn-Trauma nach einem Granatenangriff, sagen die Ärzte. Er selbst kann sich nicht erinnern. Er kann nur mit Mühe seine Beine bewegen, das Sprechen fällt ihm schwer, die einfachsten Wörter fallen ihm nicht mehr ein. Nur ein Bild hat er immer wieder vor Augen: Ali – der irakische Junge, mit dem er sich angefreundet hat –, wie er von den Füßen gerissen wird, erst mit einem Ausdruck von Glück, dann von Entsetzen im Gesicht. Was ist geschehen? Ein Buch über den Krieg im Irak, erschütternd und spannend wie ein Krimi.
