Anne Laurel Carter

The Shepherd's Granddaughter

ISBN: 978-0-88899-903-0
EAN: 9780888999030
Produktnummer: 6390317
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Sonstiges: Ab 14 J.

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Ever since she was a little girl, Amani has wanted to be a shepherd, just like her beloved grandfather, Sido. For generations her family has grazed sheep above the olive groves of the family homestead near Hebron. But now Amani's family home is being threatened by encroaching Jewish settlements. As Amani struggles to find increasingly rare grazing land for her starving sheep, her uncle and brother are tempted to take a more militant stance against the settlers. Then she meets Jonathan, an American boy visiting his father. Away from the pressures of their families, and despite their differences, the two young people discover a secret meadow wh… Mehr