The shepherd's granddaughter
(2008)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Groundwood Books : Made available through hoopla, 2008
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781554980635 (electronic bk.) MWT11380438, 1554980631 (electronic bk.) 11380438
LANGUAGE
English
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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, and she has been steeped in Sidos stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos, where the grass is lush and the sheep grow fat, and about the wolf that once showed him the path there.But now Amanis family home is being threatened by encroaching Jewish settlements. As she 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 accidentally meets Jonathan, an American boy visiting his settler father.Away from the pressures of their families, the two young people discover Sidos secret meadow, the domain of a lone wolf. And Amani learns that she must share the meadow, and even her sheep, with the wolf, if she is going to continue to use it

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