Boxes for Katje

LeVar Burton introduces helping groups powered by young people -- the Global Ambassadors, who build goodwill and do community service while learning about cultures through international communications and fundraising, and Backyard in a Box, youngsters who create and send kits to help kids in Hurricane Katrina devastated areas re-establish and enjoy their backyard.

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Boxes for Katje Feature Book:

Boxes for Katje

Boxes for Katje, based on real events, is about a charitable effort that begins with a girl and her family, who send a care package to Holland during World War II, and grows to envelop both communities.

Author: Candace Fleming
Illustrator: Stacey Dressen-McQueen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

 

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Luba: the Angel of Bergen-Belsen

Luba: the Angel of Bergen-Belsen

A biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belson concentration camp during the winter of 1944-45.

Author: Luba Tryszynska-Frederick (as told to Michelle R. McCann)
Illustrator:  Anne Marshall
Publisher:  Tricycle Press


 
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story From Iraq

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story From Iraq

When war comes to Iraq, Alia fears that the library, together with the thirty thousand books in it, will be destroyed forever, so she takes action.

Author:  Jeanette Winter
Publisher:  Harcourt

 

 
Angelina On Stage

The Lady in the Box

When Lizzie and Ben discover a homeless lady living in their neighborhood, they must reconcile their desire tohelp her with their mother’s admonition not to talk to strangers.

Author:  Ann McGovern
Illustrator: Marni Backer
Publisher:  Turtle Books


 
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