My Olive Tree James Ramos she has no choice but

she has no choice but to join in their cutthroat pursuit of enchanted relics to keep herself—and her brother

feeling like everything rests on their shoulders

awkward and proud of it

For fans of the School for Good and Evil and the Chronicles of Never After series

and the AIDS pandemic

My Olive Tree James Ramos she has no choice butIn this simple, touching picture book about the healing power of a loving community, a girl's grandpa and her neighbors help her grow an olive tree in a war torn land. Salam's grandpa says that olive trees are strong and that their roots run deep in their Palestinian land. They connect everyone from the farmer who presses the olives into oil to the baker who uses the oil in his taboon. Salam plants her own seed and is eager to see it grow. She waits