Thirteen year-old Maleeka Madison is laughed at and called names by her classmates. Tall and reed-thin and black, she is called beanpole and taunted because of her skin colour. To make matters worse, she wears clothes made by her mother, which often don’t fit properly, and she’s been a straight A student, a [...]
When they fled the pogroms in Russia and made their way to Canada, the inhabitants of Braslav thought they were coming to a land of hope and opportunity. However, though they are free from the fear of soldiers arriving to burn their homes and kill them, Yossi and his family discover that they have [...]
Eleven year-old Jess Aaron’s life is a hard one. The family farm can’t support them, so he and his four sisters and parents struggle to make ends meet on what his father can earn working in construction. They are a poor family in a community of poor families; money is tight and there [...]
