A Hand Full of Stars

A teenager who wants to be a journalist in a suppressed society describes to his diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus, Syria

Schami, Rafik

Children's Books

Puffin Books

Set in Damascus in 1959 and told as a collection of stories, this novel recalls memories of the ancient past and past glories of Syria as they fade in the face of modernism. By the author of A Hand Full of Stars.

Damascus Nights

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A teenager who wants to be a journalist in a suppressed society describes to his diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus, Syria.

Dutton Books for Young Readers

A Handful of Stars

Orion Publishing Co

A teenager who wants to be a journalist in a suppressed society describes to his diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus, Syria.

Teen & Young Adult

Demco Media

It is 1959, Damascus. The most famous storyteller in Damascus, Salim, the coachman, has mysteriously lost his voice. For seven nights, his seven old friends gather to break the spell with their seven different, unique stories -- some personal, some modern, some borrowed from the past. Against the backdrop of shifting Middle Eastern politics, Schami's eight characters, lost to the Arabian nights, weave in and out of tales of wizards and princesses, of New York skyscrapers and America. With spellbinding power, Schami imparts a luscious vision of storytelling as food for thought and salve for the soul, as the glue which holds our lives together.

Literary

Touchstone

Albert and Lila

Once there was a farm where many pigs and many chickens lived in cordial but distant contentment. They were all very polite to each other, but no pig ever played with a chicken and no chicken ever played with a pig. Not, that is, until Albert meets Lila. Both are outcasts: Albert ridiculed because he is the only white pig on the farm and Lila exiled from the henhouse because she is too old to lay eggs. Naturally, the other animals shake their heads over this odd couple. But Albert and Lila don't care. They're having too much fun together. And when they come up with a cunning plan to outwit the fox, they transform the farm into a safe and happy haven filled with friendship and fun for all.

Streich, O

Schami, R

Animals

NorthSouth

Albert, the only white pig on the farm, and Lila, a chicken too old to lay eggs, suffer the ridicule of their fellow animals until they join forces and defeat a hungry fox who comes to call. Reprint.

Alberto y Lila

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Albert, the only white pig on the farm, and Lila, a chicken too old to lay eggs, suffer the ridicule of their fellow animals until they join forces and defeat a hungry fox who comes to call.

In this warmhearted picture book, two farmyard outcasts take solace in their taboo friendship . . . when Lila, a chicken, cottons to Albert, a pig. ""Schami's pleasant tone and gentle pace envelop a message about tolerance and shattering stereotypes.""--""Publishers Weekly.""

Alberto y Lila (Spanish Edition)

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A Hand Full of Stars

Damascus Nights

A Hand Full of Stars

A Handful of Stars

A Hand Full of Stars

Damascus Nights

Albert and Lila

Alberto y Lila

Alberto y Lila

Alberto y Lila (Spanish Edition)