At the site I looked at http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk , it says that it is note even published in the UK yet.
The descriptive paragraph provided reads thus : 12 year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. Karim longs to play football outside with his friends. But in this city there's constant danger. ===== You can see a scan of the cover at http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk/jackets/033/0330436791.jpg The website also lists 38 other books that Laird has worked on including adaptations of classic children's stories (e.g. Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs) ; The Garbage King "Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution" ; Americans at Home, which "looks at how Americans live today. It traces the development of housing styles in the USA from native American homes to the 20th century." ; Red Sky in the Morning, in which "Anna's brother has been born profoundly disabled, and her family struggles to come to terms with their strange baby." ; and Secret Friends, in which "Rafaella, the new girl at school ... finds making friends hard [w]ith her strange name and sticking out ears". There's an author profile at http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk/jubilee/magazine/authors/liz_laird/liz_laird_profile.asp Laird also interviewed Jehan Helou of the Tamer Institute, Ramallah. The interview is at http://www.carouselguide.co.uk/pdf/17.pdf Here's some excerpts : Have the libraries suffered in the current intifada? Yes, many of them have. Some have been shelled, and in some cases the Israeli troops have entered the library, taken the books and destroyed the computers. What other problems do you have in the present situation? Very severe ones! We're totally pinned down. If we want to visit the libraries we have to travle over back roads ... many [library] activities have just ceased. ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
