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| | Title
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Shattered [6 books] (36638) |
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| | Physical
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205 pieces
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2006
| | Distributor
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Penguin Canada
(3868)
| | Country
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Canada
| | Audience
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Intermediate, Junior High (IJ)
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Booking Library
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| | Synopsis
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In order to pass social studies, fifteen-year-old Ian must complete
community volunteer service. Choosing to work at 'The Club,' sounds
like fun, until he arrives at what turns out to be a soup kitchen for
the homeless in an unsafe part of the city. After a near-mugging, from
which he's saved by a fierce, pipe-wielding homeless man, Ian figures
this will probably be as depressing and scary an assignment as he's
ever had to complete.
When the man who saved him shows up at the soup kitchen, looking far
less fierce and known to all as 'Sarge,' Ian begins to get to know
him. Jacques was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces, and his last
tour of duty was as a peacekeeper stationed in Rwanda, an African
nation Ian knows little about.
In this gripping tale, Ian begins to learn truths not only about
Rwanda, but about the world, for which he is not prepared. But what
will he do with this new found knowledge? Can he do anything at all to
help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish
memories?
With a Foreword by General Romeo Dallaire, the Force Commander for the
United Nations Mission to Rwanada, Shattered is an important book, one
that asks what one person can do to make a difference.
| | Author
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Walters, Eric
| | Dimensions
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18 cm.
| ISBN#
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978-0-14-318779-0
| | Pub. Loc.
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Toronto, ON
| | Contents
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6 books ; 1 Literature Circles guide ; 1 Focused Education Resources review.
| | Notes
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Theme: Realism.
Focused Education Resources review available below.
| | Parts
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6 books ; 1 guide ; 1 review all in a 33 x 23 cm. plastic bag.
| | Stmt Resp
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Eric Walters
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Guide Included
| | Subjects
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Canada.—Canadian Armed Forces—Fiction;
Crimes against humanity—Rwanda—Fiction;
Genocide—Rwanda—Fiction;
Homeless persons—Fiction;
Reading;
Volunteer work—Fiction;
Literature Circles(CK)
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LIT REA 6-8
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FER Approved.
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Fer_Review |
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| Reference |
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