romanies

New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers. Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn't.

When Helene Hannemann awoke one May morning in 1943, she prepared for a normal day of taking the children to school and getting herself to work while her husband stayed home and tended to their youngest child. However, the relative peace of her quiet life was destroyed when Nazi soldiers order her family to be taken to a concentration camp because her husband was Romani. Though she was German and not order to go with them, she insisted and remained with them during their time at Auschwitz until their death in the gas chamber in 1944. Includes a chronology, a glossary, and text-related discussion questions.

"Vilified and marginalized, the Romani people--widely referred to as gypsies, Roma, and travelers--are seen as a people without place, either geographically or socially, no matter where they live or what they do. In this new chronological history of the Romani, "Another Darkness, Another Dawn" demonstrates how their experiences provide a way to understand mainstream society's relationship with outsiders and immigrants. Becky Taylor follows the gypsies, Roma, and travelers from their roots in the Indian subcontinent to their travels across the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires"--Provided by publisher.

Bethan, apprentice to a Welsh Roma witch, is harrassed by the son of the clan's chieftan and then, after a brutal assault against her and a friend, must collect grisly objects to save her friend's life.

"In this first book in a fantasy trilogy, social prestige is derived from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic. However, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place. Sent from England to her family's once powerful but now oppressed native Hungary, Anna Arden finds herself in the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romani. She must choose to either deny her unique power and cling to the life she's always wanted, or embrace her gift, spark a rebellion, and change the world forever."--OCLC.

On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.

Twelve-year-olds Ambrose, Tom, and Frankie are transported to the boys' hometown of Freedom Falls, Ohio, in 1852 when Frankie blows her Romani family's magical trombone, and to return home they will have to use both Morse code and the ancient form of divination known as the I-Ching.

In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.

On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.

Evacuated to a remote Yorkshire valley during World War II, a homesick ten-year-old English girl discovers an abandoned baby and befriends a gypsy boy, despite local prejudices.