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With hope in their eyes: compelling stories of the Windrush generation (Unseen history)
By Vivienne Francis. 1998
The stories of the Windrush generation - Britain's first post-war immigrants from the Caribbean. These early pioneers, who came to…
Britain with high expectations, tell it like it really was, covering over fifty years of black presence in Britain.Kent: our century by the people who lived it : a record of 100 years' history as reported by newspapers of the Kent Messenger Group (Unseen history)
By George Ward, Paul Francis, Brian Paine. 1999
This book chronicles many of the key moments and episodes in Kent's history over the last one hundred years, as…
witnessed and recorded by those who were there at the time. It is not simply a factual record of Kent's history over a century, it is a true story of those who lived through it.Smells of childhood: memories of Small Heath
By Mary M Donoghue. 1997
Donoghue captures all the senses of the neighbourhood where she grew up in this memoir. She explores her early life…
in the mid 1950's to early 1960's by focusing on the smells of the town where she grew up.Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community (Orca Think #2)
By Lois Peterson, Taryn Gee. 2021
Part of the Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, this book answers the questions young people have about homelessness and…
its causes, effects, possible solutions and what we can all do help.Sarajevo: mon enfance sous les bombes
By Nadja Halilbegović. 2007
Mon enfance sous les bombes, journal de Nadja des années 1992 à 1995, est un hommage aux milliers de victimes…
du siège de Sarajevo et aux enfants qui, de par le monde, vivent - et meurent toujours - sous les bombes. Les réflexions de Nadja Halilbegovich sur la vie et la mort, ses appels au secours à l'Amérique de Clinton, son désarroi poignant et l'espoir toujours renouvelé de jours meilleurs ne peuvent laisser personne indifférent. Les enfants notamment se sentiront interpellés par le récit de cette jeune fille qui leur ressemble... À noter aussi les commentaires de l'auteure devenue adulte insérés ça et là dans le texte sous le titre de Retour en arrière qui apportent des précisions au journal, de même qu'un prologue et un épilogue. -- 4e de couv