Posts Tagged ‘local-author’
A Good Trade
In Uganda, a young boy struggles to carry cans full of water back to his small village, and when he sees an aid truck filled with something that would make his journey easier, he devises a way to obtain some of the truck’s treasure.
Read MoreCommunity Soup
In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, the children work together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share, but some goats are trying to eat all the vegetables.
Read MoreThe Way To Inner Peace (small)
Candy Cigarettes
The Gift of Elephants
When Canadian Jacquie Gauthier was a young girl, she received a souvenir of Africa – a tiny ebony carving of an elephant. She couldn’t have guessed that such a seemingly small gift would ultimately lead her to Africa and the love of her life. “The Gift of an Elephant” is a story about faith, change,…
Read MoreSamuel de Champlain and Huronia
Force Ripe
Set on a West Indian Island, Force Ripe portrays the story of Lee, a little girl growing up in a northern village in the 1970s, when it was normal for children to be left with grandparents while parents went abroad to work and send money home. It was the time of revolution, during which Lee’s…
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