Yas Imamura

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Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak.

To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn’t the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? 
Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s beautifully illustrated, elegant love story features a photo of the real Tama and George—the author’s grandparents—along with an afterword and other back matter for readers to learn more about a time in our history that continues to resonate.

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« Si je peux aider les autres, vous en êtes aussi capables ».
Découvre la vie d’enfants du monde entier qui se sont engagés pour prendre soin des personnes démunies avec générosité. Rencontre les élèves de San Jordi qui ont ouvert un potager où interviennent les personnes âgées et esseulées, Kesz, le fondateur d’une association dédiée aux enfants des rues aux Philippines, ou encore Selin cette ingénieure passionnée qui a mis au point un robot-chien idéal pour aider les personnes handicapées !
Au fil des pages de cet album émouvant, inspire-toi de l’histoire de ces jeunes comme les autres qui ont réussi à changer quelque chose dans leur communauté.

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In the 1630s in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a Puritan settler planted a pear tree--the first pear tree in America. More than a century later, the tree still bore fruit, impressing a famous poet and one of the first US presidents. The pear tree survived hurricanes, fire, and vandalism, and today, more than 350 years after it was first planted, it's alive and strong, and clones of it grow all around the US. This is the amazing true story of the Endicott Pear tree, and how it grew up with our nation.