The Shepherd's Granddaughter The Shepherd's Granddaughter

The Shepherd's Granddaughter

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Publisher Description

Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children, the Society of School Librarians International Best Book Award and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book

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 Sido’s 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 Amani’s 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 Sido’s 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.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2008
August 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Groundwood Books Ltd
SELLER
House of Anansi Press Inc.
SIZE
548.9
KB
AUDIENCE
Ninth Grade
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