Liz Welch

Aisholpan Nurgaiv, the subject of the award-winning documentary The Eagle Huntress, tells her own story for the first time, speaking directly with writer Liz Welch (I Will Always Write Back), who traveled to Mongolia for this book. Her story and fresh, sincere voice are not only inspiring but truly magnificent: with the support of her father, she captured and trained her own golden eagle and won the Ölgii eagle festival. She was the only girl to compete in the festival. Her triumphant story hits on multiple key nonfiction points of appeal: stories of survival, of unique animal-human bonds, and of girls accomplishing amazing things. One of the consistent highest-achieving trends in middle-grade nonfiction continues to be empowering stories about strong girls accomplishing tasks that had previously been considered impossible. Not only does Aisholpan's story deliver that sensation in spades, but it comes with strong media ties from the 2016 documentary about her and her achievements.

Aisholpan Nurgaiv, the subject of the award-winning documentary The Eagle Huntress, tells her own story for the first time, speaking directly with writer Liz Welch (I Will Always Write Back), who traveled to Mongolia for this book. Her story and fresh, sincere voice are not only inspiring but truly magnificent: with the support of her father, she captured and trained her own golden eagle and won the ?lgii eagle festival. She was the only girl to compete in the festival. Her triumphant story hits on multiple key nonfiction points of appeal: stories of survival, of unique animal-human bonds, and of girls accomplishing amazing things. One of the consistent highest-achieving trends in middle-grade nonfiction continues to be empowering stories about strong girls accomplishing tasks that had previously been considered impossible. Not only does Aisholpan's story deliver that sensation in spades, but it comes with strong media ties from the 2016 documentary about her and her achievements.

Hur känns det att förlora allt, fly för sitt liv och försöka börja om någon annanstans? Det vet Malala Yousafzai, och det vet miljoner andra unga människor. Malala berättar dels sin egen historia igen, denna gång ur perspektivet hur flykten har förändrat hennes identitet, längtan och drömmar. Hon upplåter också sin röst till ett tiotal andra unga kvinnor som hon har mött under besök på flyktingläger eller på andra platser världen över. De får berätta högst personligt, om fruktansvärda strapatser undan våld och förtryck. Om förlust, sorg, skräck - men också om ofattbart mod och om hopp. Att lämna allt bakom sig, försöka hitta trygghet på en ny plats, lära sig ett nytt språk, inse att man kanske aldrig kan återvända - när man samtidigt sett fasor som inte går att beskriva. Krig, folkförflyttning och gränskonflikter präglar vår tid på ett obönhörligt sätt. Vi som flydde är en drabbande och enormt angelägen skildring som påminner oss om att alla människor har okränkbara rättigheter, som trygghet och ett hem och en möjlighet att våga se framåt. Boken är skriven av flyktingen, Nobelprisvinnaren och förebilden Malala Yousafzai.

A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love."--People Somehow, between their father's mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother's cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together. All that changed with the death of their mother. While nineteen-year-old Amanda was legally on her own, the three younger siblings-Liz, sixteen; Dan, fourteen; and Diana, eight-were each dispatched to a different set of family friends. Quick-witted and sharp-tongued, Amanda headed for college in New York City and immersed herself in an '80s world of alternative music and drugs. Liz, living with the couple for whom she babysat, followed in Amanda's footsteps until high school graduation when she took a job in Norway as a nanny. Mischievous, rebellious Dan, bounced from guardian to boarding school and back again, getting deeper into trouble and drugs. And Diana, the red-haired baby of the family, was given a new life and identity and told to forget her past. But Diana's siblings refused to forget her--or let her go. Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story of un­breakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion. Despite the Welch children's wrenching loss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not only all right; they're back together.