The Boy Is Gone Vernetta D. Young This book has been awarded

This book has been awarded a silver medal in the Nautilus Awards - Middle Grade Fiction category

and vocabulary - all through discussion

six contemporary metalworkers show a series of demonstration pieces of their iron work

and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists

" and "McDonald's Versus Jihad

The Boy Is Gone Vernetta D. Young This book has been awardedA story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu grew up wearing goatskins and lived to stand before his community dressed for business in a pressed suit, crisp