My Olive Tree | Hazar Elbayya Crown Books for Young Readers Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World

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My Olive Tree | Hazar Elbayya Crown Books for Young Readers Wilkerson brilliantly captures their firstIn 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