This slightly fictionalized biography of a half-Kurdish boy growing up in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq during Operation Desert Storm is riveting. The book is full of homey details of a family simply trying to outlive and out-wait the madness of war, the bizarre behavior of a narcissistic dictator, and the fact that their home in Basra is situated right between Hussein’s capital city of Baghdad and Kuwait—the small oil-rich country he has invaded. History in a nutshell.”—Jane Yolen of The Devil’s Arithmetic (Viking)
True story of my Aunt Sylvia’s childhood in the Holocaust in WWII. Out of 270,000 people who entered the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, only 12 children walked out alive. My aunt was one of the twelve.
(Marshall Cavendish Publishers)
Co-authored with my twin, JULIA DEVILLERS! Identical twins Emma and Payton switch places in middle school – with hilarious results.
(Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)
Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel is profoundly gifted and has Asperger Syndrome. Can he find his place in the real world?
Amid the horrors of World War II, Polish social worker Irena Sendler worked in the Warsaw Ghetto for Jews, smuggling out babies and children to give them a chance to live.
(Capstone Young Readers)
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