Three Wishes
Deborah Ellis
In a rehabilitation centre for disabled children, twelve-year-old Nora says she loves the colour pink and chewing gum and explains that the wheels of her wheelchair are like her legs. Eleven-year-old Mohammad describes how his house was demolished by soldiers. And we meet twelve-year-old Salam, whose older sister walked into a store in Jerusalem and blew herself up, killing herself and two people, and injuring twenty others. All these children live both ordinary and extraordinary lives. They argue with their siblings. They dream about their wishes for the future. They have also seen their homes destroyed, their families killed and they live in the midst of constant upheaval and violence.
This simple and telling book allows children everywhere to see those caught in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as children just like themselves, but living far more difficult, dangerous lives. (From Groundwood Books)
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The children and young people in this book share a very small piece of land on the Mediterranean Sea. This land, once called Palestine, is a land sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians, but the area has been at war for more than fifty years.
The genocide that took place during World War II caused many Jews to believe that they could not count on governments in the world to protect them. So they would protect themselves in their own land of Israel, where they could live without fear of persecution or extermination.
From Three Wishes by Deborah Ellis2004. Published by Groundwood Books.
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