Eco Girl

Eco GirlIn a tender celebration of family tradition, a little girl becomes an environmental steward to express her love for all things leafy and green. Eve loves living next to a forest because it means being close to her favorite baobab trees. Doing her best to imitate them, Eve practices patience. She feeds and shelters birds, just as her beloved trees do, stretching toward the sky as if her arms were branches. Eve longs to communicate with the leafy giants

and wonderfully engaging" writing (Smithsonian)

Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the wild world promised in the title

occupation of the island following the Spanish American War

Stronger and savvier after her “perfect” marriage crashed-and-burned

openness as an alternative to close-mindedness

family institutions

We're Different and We All Belong is one of the best books I've read about celebrating and respecting diversity

THE PROPHECIES IS A DECLARATION OF THE WAR THAT GREAT FATHER AHAYAH AND LORD YASHAYA SHALL WAGE UPON THE HEATHEN THAT HAVE RAPED

ISBN-13: 978-0062981356

protest movements

Yet despite the cries of outrage that have mounted since the levees broke

she and Eartha were never far from each other’s sides