Liesel, Otto and Mia are part of a happy family. “Hitler is a Toad!” Otto would yell. Mia would rub porridge and mash potato in her hair while Leisel was quiet. She knew what was wrong and what was right. One day their father had to go to war against the Russian army. But when they get the news that he is missing they have to pack their bags and flee their home in East Prussia.
Liesel, Otto and Mia eventually find themselves lost…alone… in a cold stormy blizzard in the middle of a war zone. Liesel needs to keep her siblings safe but she struggles to be able to even feed them.
They have to do wild things. Adventurous things and dangerous things. To survive they must become wolves.
“This is one of the most heartwarming and intriguing books I have ever read. It reminds me that a family must stick together and work together to build their relationships and find a home. It helps me remember that I must be a role model to my younger siblings and to all my friends because there are always situations where you have to become a wolf.”
By guest blogger Gabrielle Orr
“Yumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend, and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new drama. The post-millennial farming community has been invaded by Agribusiness forces at war with a posse of activists, the Seeds of Resistance, who travel the country in a camping car, “The Spudnick,” biofueled by pilfered McDonald’s french-fry oil.”
“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
“The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it — from garden seeds to Scripture — is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.”
“Jaxie dreads going home. His mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one’s ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.
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