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The Shepherd's Granddaughter (2008)

by Anne Laurel Carter(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

088899902X (ISBN13: 9780888999023)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Groundwood Books

review 1: Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. Seedo the grandfaather in a Palestinian extended family thaat has has had afamily shepherd for thoousands of years passes on thee responsibility to his granddaughter even over the objections of the rest of thee faamily member. Amani is the young girl who chooses shepherding over school. She enjoyes sheperding until something traumatic happens Israeli settler from AMerica take part of her land for settlement building. It becomes unsafe for her to take the sheep over to Seedo's peak. From apprehension to violence the story moves on. Settlers shoot one of her sheep in front of her, lateer theey poison her sheep kiling all but one. A new highway is opend to only Israelis. When they driive to Al Khalil her uncle the family lear afteer ... moreSeedo dies is arrested,beaten aftr he drivess on the highway. His harvest of graapes is thrown to the floor. Amani beffriends a sixteen year old who disagreees with all that is beeing done and eventualy reeturns to New York. Close to the endAmani witnesses her house being demolished and her fatheer geting aarreested. THe story is written specifically for yooung adult. If you wnat to understand how the Palestinians view th current conflict I strongly advise thise book. ONe of th main characters , Amani's, Faather is for aa peaceful solution with out violence. I believe that is the author's point of view as well
review 2: Nonsense. Pure nonsense. If I could give this book not a single star, believe me, I would. If an author is going to select to write about such a complex, intricate topic, she should be sure that she actually puts in some research and doesn't fill the story with imagined nonsense just to provoke some emotion from the reader. Stories this biased and untrue should not even be permitted to possess a space on a library shelf as they have the ability to give readers completely false ideas and instigate new anti-Semetic feelings in many young readers. ISRAEL is a land where there are many troubling events occurring. However, what the prejudiced and uneducated author needs to learn is that the Palestinians are not as innocent as this book makes them out to be. Suicide bombers are martyrs? Give me a break. I know someone who instantaneously lost his innocent, Jewish son on a typical bus ride in Israel.. Why? A Palestinian suicide bomber. Let me also say that Israel has given up much land, including much of the West Bank, in an attempt to make peace. Palestinians just want it all, but it's the Jewish people's land just as well. There has never been a publicized case on Jewish settlers evicting Arabic people by poisoning their sheeps and killing their dogs, as well as nonchalantly razing their houses. If you look this book up in a book store, you'll discern that it is placed in the Fiction section, because that's what it is, pure, total, imagined fiction. Shame on the author for influencing people in such an adverse way using such lies!!! less

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