Just Like Us

The True Story Of Four Mexican Girls Coming Of Age In America

BY HELEN THORPE
Quaker author. A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Helen Thorpe takes us deep into the American subculture of Mexican immigrants. We meet four girls on the eve of their senior prom, in Denver, Colorado. This brilliant narrative journalism is a vivid coming-of-age story about girlhood, friendship, and, most of all, identity, what it means to fake an identity, steal an identity, or inherit an identity from one's parents and country.

Scribner 2011 394 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Standing In The Light

The Captive Diary

OSBOURNE, MARY POPE
The diary of a young Quaker girl reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by the Lenape Indians in 1763. She learns to care deeply for her captors. An excellent portrait of Quaker life in the late 18th century and of life among the Lenape. This is a well researched historical novel with excellent notes and reproductions of drawings at the end of the book.

1998 184 PP. Cloth

$12.95 (in stock)

Unglobed Fruit -poems

BY ESTHER GREENLEAF MURER
Esther Greenleaf Murer is a member of Central Philadelphia MM, and has been writing poetry since the age of 6. Her poetry has appeared in Friends Journal, Types & Shadows (of which she was founding editor), and the anthology The Best of Friends. She will be represented in the forthcoming anthology, Gathered: a Quaker Poetry Anthology. She compiled the pamphlet Beyond Uneasy Tolerance: The saga of Quaker and the arts in 100 quotations, and translated 4 novels by Norwegian Jens Bjorneboe

Lulu 2011 87 PP. Paper

$11.00 (in stock)

Cutting Into The Meatpacking Line

Workers And Change In The Rural Midwest

BY DEBORAH FINK
Quaker Deborah Fink draws both on interviews and on firsthand experience working on the production floor of a pork-processing plant. She weaves a fascinating account of the meatpacking industry's history in Iowa - a history, she notes, that has been experienced differently by male and female, immigrant and native-born, white and black workers. Indeed, argues Fink, these differences are a key factor in the ongoing creation of the rural working class. She looks within rural midwestern culture itself to examine the class, gender, and ethnic contradictions that allowed-indeed welcomed-the meatpacking industry's development.

Chapel Hill 1998 235 PP. Paper

$32.95 (in stock)

Getting To Know Grant Wood

BY MIKE VENEZIA
Grant wood was born into a Quaker farming family, but took up art, travelling abroad to learn his trade. Best known for his picture "American gothic" this small book looks at his life and art in a wider setting.

Childrens Press 2011 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

We Are Mesquakie, We Are One

BY HADLEY IRWIN
Based on actual events, a Mesquakie Indian girl grows to adulthood during the 1840's when her people are forced to move from their home in Iowa to a reservation in Kansas where her people face malnutrition, small pox, alcoholism and depression and are encouraged to adopt the white culture. Eventually they can begin to buy back some of their stolen land and return to live on it. Age 8+

Feminist Press 1980 115 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

Peace Week In Miss Fox's Class

BY EILEEN SPINELLI, ANNE KENNEDY
Miss Fox is tired of hearing her young students quarrel. So she announces Peace Week, no more squabbling for one whole week! The children chime in with their own rules: no fighting, don't say mean things, and help others. Throughout the week each of the little animals gets a chance to practice this new behavior. When Polecat teases Bunny for wearing a bright yellow sweater, instead of poking fun back at Polecat, Bunny admires his sweater. Soon, to their surprise, the animals are finding that it's easy to help others, take turns, and say nice things, even when someone is grumpy to them. Wouldn't it be nice, Squirrel says, if every week could be Peace Week?

Whitman 2009 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Bamboo People

Anovel

BY MITALI PERKINS
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-loving Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. Tu Reh, on the other hand, wants to fight for freedom after watching Burmese soldiers destroy his Karenni family's home and bamboo fields. Timidity becomes courage and anger becomes compassion as each boy is changed by unlikely friendships formed under extreme circumstances. The author does not sugarcoat her the terrible, fascist reality this is a gentle story suitable for younger readers than the subject matter might suggest. It answers the question, "What is it like to be a child soldier?" clearly, but with hope.Reviewed in the May 2011 Friends Journal,

Charlesbridge 2010 274 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Do Something

A Handbook For Activists

BY NANCY LUBLIN, OF DOSOMETHING.ORG
Here are 33 action plans, touching on areas such as the environment, human rights, poverty, animal welfare, education, disaster relief-plus worksheets, facts, and outlines to help socially conscious kids create their own projects, and, for inspiration, profiles of DoSomething.org grant winners. Additionally, DoSomething.org is setting up a separate website for this book's readers. As reviwed in May 20!! Friends Journal

Workman 2010 280 PP. Spiral Bound

$13.95 (in stock)

Get Real

What Kind Of World Are You Buying ?

BY MARA ROCKLIFF
Can you change the world with your wallet? -You already do. In this frank, teen-friendly manifesto, Mara Rockliff reveals what you're really buying when you spend your money on a cell phone, a cheap t-shirt, or fast food-and shows the way to better choices, both for people and the planet. When she's not spreading dangerous ideas, Mara Rockliff can be spotted loading up on books at her town library, biking to a nearby farm for fresh ingredients for homemade ice cream, or fixing yet another mug of fair trade tea. In real life, she lives in eastern Pennsylvania with her family.

Running Press 2010 112 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

The History Of White People

BY NELL IRVIN PAINTER
Filling a huge gap in historical literature that long focused on the non-white, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of "race" but also the worship of "whiteness" for economic, social, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People forcefully reminds us that the concept of one white race is a recent invention. The meaning, importance, and realty of this all-too-human thesis of race have buckled under the weight of a long and rich unfolding of events.

W. W. Norton & Company 2011 496 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Putting Away Childish Things

A Novel Of Modern Faith

BY MARCUS BORG
Borg explores modern (and old) Christian ideas in a novel. Kate is a popular professor a small midwestern town. She loves her job, is happy with her personal and spiritual life. Then things start to go wrong. A job offer, but at the same college as an old flame. In the classroom, students ask for her views on the Bible, & homosexuality -answering honestly she finds herself a target of outraged parents. This novel is an engaging way for readers to learn about the important issues dividing Christians today. Along the way, we join with the characters to ask the hard questions such as what does the Bible really teach? Who is Jesus? What is the nature of faith today?

HarperOne 2011 386 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Tsunami

BY KIMIKO KAJIKAWA, ED YOUNG
Written two years before what we now call "The Tsunami": Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn't join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something is coming - something he can't describe. When he sees the monster wave pulling away from the beach, he knows. Tsunami But the villagers below can't see the danger. Will Ojiisan risk everything he has to save them? Can he? Ages 4-8. Reviewed in May 2011 Friends Journal.

Philomel 2009 32 PP Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Mockingbird

BY KATHRYN ERSKINE
Acclaimed and Quaker author. In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Anything in between is confusing. That's how Caitlin's older brother, Devon, always explained it. But now Devon's dead. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an 11-year-old girl with Asperger's, she doesn't know how.

Puffin 2011 235 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Los Consejos Y Las Preguntas

Advices &

PACIFIC YEARLY MEETI
A translation into Spanish of the classic Britian Yearly Meeting Advices & Queries.

Pacific Yearly Meeting 2001 33 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

47

BY WALTER MOSELEY
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John who claims he arrived by Sun Ship on Earth. He introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom. The story is part mystery, part historical fiction, and part science fiction.

Little Brown 2005 232 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Coming Of Age In Mississippi

BY ANNE MOODY
Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story, the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties and fifties, and to have survived with pride and courage intact. In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidly reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.

Dell 1968 424 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Dragon's Gate

BY LAURENCE YEP
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California, the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle. In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom, and free China from the Manchu invaders. Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life, a train for which he would open the Dragon's Gate.

Trophy 1993 333 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

The Jack Bank

A Memoir Of A South African Childhood

BY GLEN RETIEF
Glen Retief now attends Pennsdale Meeting, but grew up in the Kruger National park in apartheid era S Africa. The Jack Bank is a central idea to the book, a bullying prefect at his boarding school would beat other pupils with a bat-in advance of any misdeed, building up a "Jack bank". Glen eventually became a prefect himself, perpetuating a system he now sees as a metaphor of apartheid. However, perhaps with insight gained from being gay in a hostile land, he eventually breaks away to become a radical activist working for change there and eventually moving to America.

St martins 2011 288 PP. Cloth

$22.49 (in stock)

The Riddles Of The Fourth Gospel

An Introduction To John

BY PAUL N ANDERSON
Paul Anderson is the leading Quaker bible scholar. Here he looks at the literary, historical, and theological aspects of the Fourth Gospel., evaluating methods others have used and looking at questions of the Gospels authorship and composition in relation to the other synoptic gospels.

Fortress 2011 288 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

Trouble Don't Last

BY SHELLEY PEARSALL
11 year old Samuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he's ever known. Then with no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and, together, they run. The journey north seems much more frightening than Master Hackler ever was, and Samuel's not sure what freedom means aside from running, hiding, and starving. But as they move from one refuge to the next on the Underground Railroad, Samuel uncovers the secret of his own past-and future. And old Harrison begins to see past a whole lifetime of hurt to the promise of a new life. Includes a historical note and map.

Yearling 2002 230 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

A Peace Of Africa

Reflections On Life In The Great Lakes Region

BY DAVID ZAREMBKA
By weaving personal stories with historical narratives, A Peace of Africa explores how the Great Lakes region of Africa went from optimism at the time of independence to the conflict, corruption, wars, and genocide that have engulfed the region since then. David studied African History at Harvard, was with the peace corps in Tanzania, founded a school in Kenya and then was instrumental in introducing the Alternative to Violence Project (AVP) into Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Congo (South Kivu). He currently lives with his Kenyan wife Gladys in Lumakanda in W. Kenya.

Madera Press 2011 322 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Teaching Godly Play, Revised & Expanded

How To Mentor The Spiritual Development Of Children

BY JERROME BERRYMAN
Teaching Godly Play is a revised and expanded, 2nd edition of a book published in 1995. It begins by discussing why serious-serene play is important to nourish children's spirituality and then moves the reader through the process of how to mentor children so they can enter adolescence with an inner working model of Christianity. This system includes stories, parables, and contemplative silence. This method is used in combination with the Godly Play curriculum, which is found in the seven volumes of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, and Quakers have their own Faith and Play to develop a specificly Quaker understanding. Looks the same size as the others- but it is actually much smaller!

MER 2009 160 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Abuela's Weave

BY OMAR S. CASTANEDA
Esperanza, a young Guatemalan girl, learns to weave from her grandmother, and takes their fabrics to a city marketplace. They must compete with machine-made goods, but the beauty and complexity of the hand-woven fabrics impresses everyone.

Lee&Low Books Inc. 1993 29 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)

Contemporary Conflict Resolution

The Prevention, Management And Transformations Of Deadly Conflict

BY HUGH MIALL, OLIVER RAMSBOTHAM, TOM WOODHOUSE
All three authors are Quakers working from the Bradford school of peace studies. The third edition of this hugely popular text charts the development of the field from its pioneers to its contemporary exponents and offers an assessment of its achievements and the challenges it faces in today's changed security environment. The book has been thoroughly updated and new chapters added on peacebuilding from below, reconciliation, responses to terror, gender issues, the ethics of intervention, dialogue, discourse and disagreement, culture and conflict resolution, and future directions for the field.

Polity 2011 507 PP. Paper

$34.95 (in stock)

Answering The Violence

Encounters With Perpetrators

BY JOHN LAMPEN
As a People committed to peace, Friends have nonetheless, from time to time, sought to build close relationships with perpetrators of violence, groups and individuals who may be thought to be "beyond the pale" - dictators and terrorists . Why? What part do such relationships play in efforts to end differences and build peace in troubled situations? John Lampen, who has served as a Quaker peace worker in N Ireland and elsewhere, draws on his own experiences and the accounts of other peace workers to explore the controversies, risks, rewards, and possible benefits of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators of violence.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Got Silence? T Shirt, V Neck Style

In Maroon Or Blue

FROM FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
T shirt features FGC's new Logo (a dandelion seed head) on the front and the words "Got Silence? www.quakerfinder.org" on the back. This style is unisex and features a V neck. Available in sizes Small to XXL and in Maroon or Blue. Please reply to the order confirmation email with your choice of size and color. T Shirt is US made in Los Angeles from Organic cotton and printed locally to us in New Jersey.only blue is organic cotton.

Camden Printworks Clothing

$20.00 (in stock)

Got Silence? T Shirt, Women's Style

In Maroon Or Blue

FROM FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
T shirt features FGC's new 'Seed' Logo on the front and the words "Got Silence? wwwquakerfinder.org" on the back. This style is cut for women, but the sizes for this style seem more suited to smurfs than women, please adjust your size up by two, so if you take larger than Large, we do not currently have any suitable in this styler, though we plan to get some in. Available in sizes small to XXL and in Cranberry or Galaxy Blue. Please reply to the order confirmation emial with your choice of size and color. T Shirt is US made in Los Angeles, and screen printed in New Jersey. Blue shirts are organic cotton.

Camden Printworks Clothing

$20.00 (in stock)

Got Silence? T Shirt, Unisex Style

In Maroon Or Blue

FROM FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
T shirt features FGC's new Logo (a dandelion seed head) on the front and the words "Got Silence? www.quakerfinder.org" on the back. This style is unisex. Available in sizes Small to XXL and in Maroon or Blue. Please reply to the order confirmation email with your choice of size and color. T Shirt is US made in Los Angeles from Organic cotton and printed locally to us in New Jersey.Only blue is organic cotton.

Camden Printworks Clothing

$20.00 (in stock)

Sawdust Carpets

BY AMELIA LAU CARLING
The Lau family travels to Antigua, Guatemala to visit their cousins. Although the Laus are Chinese and Buddhist, they adore the pageantry of Easter, and Easter in Antigua is exciting. The best part is seeing the elaborate carpets made of colored sawdust, which the processions walk over and destroy. On the morning of the most important procession, the heroine is invited to make her very own sawdust carpet. But why, she wonders, make something so beautiful, only to have it be ruined? Guatemalan and Chinese religious observances, dragon boat races and Easter processions, all weave in and out of this story.

Groundwood 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)