There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.
Mitali PerkinsIf you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.
Mitali PerkinsI hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.
Mitali PerkinsItโs a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowryโs vision and authorityโฆthe filmโฆilluminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.
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