A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

5 best books like A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War (Deborah Campbell): The Moon Within, Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words, The Stones of Mourning Creek, La Femme qui fuit, It Rained Warm Bread

The Moon Within
AuthorAida Salazar
Celi Rivera's life swirls with questions. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy. And her best friend's exploration of what it means to be genderfluid.

But most of all, her mother's insistence she have a moon ceremony when her first period arrives. It's an ancestral Mexica ritual...
AuthorPeace Pilgrim
ISBN0943734290
The silver-haired woman walked away from her name and vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace". On New Year's Day, 1953, she walked ahead of the Tournament of Roses parade handing out peace messages. It was the beginning of a pilgrimage that would last eighteen years. Traveling...
AuthorDiane Les Becquets
ISBN0761452389
Full Review at http://www.loganashleyleduc.com

I first read this book in 2004. I was 9 years old and this instantly became a favorite. I remember it being one of the first books that brought me to tears at the end and made me want to just hug it for hours.

After 11 years, I finally reread...
La Femme qui fuit
AuthorAnaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
ISBN2923896505
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette n'a pas connu la mère de sa mère. De sa vie, elle ne savait que très peu de choses. Cette femme s'appelait Suzanne. En 1948, elle est aux côtés de Borduas, Gauvreau et Riopelle quand ils signent Refus Global. Avec Barbeau, elle fonde une famille. Mais très tôt, elle abandonne...
It Rained Warm Bread
AuthorGloria Moskowitz-Sweet
A middle grade novel in verse about Moishe Moskowitz's Holocaust survival story.

Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe moved from one labor...
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