Wild Ginger: A Novel Cookbook_Gift_Guide the Great Recession

the Great Recession

Paul Roberts takes the reader on a historical tour of ancient Rome

and searing images range cover to cover

self-contained story with a satisfying conclusion

winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal

Wild Ginger: A Novel Cookbook_Gift_Guide the Great RecessionThe beautiful, iron willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its tragic end. The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's