social life and customs

Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood, which includes his summer vacations in Norway and life at an English boarding school.

Recounts the true story of Kamila Sidiqi, a woman who was forced to support herself and her five siblings after the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul and her father and brothers fled the country.

Text and photographs from a living history village in West Virginia re-create the pioneer life of young people in Appalachia in the early nineteenth century.

Provides an overview of Japanese culture and food, including descriptions of staples, information about food production, and recipes.

Gives instructions for preparing foods, making clothes, and creating other items used by European settlers in America, thereby providing a description of the daily life of these colonists.

Describes the customs and social life of the countries of West Africa while discussing their special dishes and feasts.

Follow a day in the life, from wake-up to bedtime, of a young person from Kenya.

A rhyming description of the kente cloth costumes of the Ashanti and Ewe people of Ghana and a portrayal of the symbolic colors and patterns.

Car-loving, fifteen-year-old Jack Bishop participates in a clinical trial to find new treatments for his epilepsy, but somehow enters the body of Jacqueline, an unconventional girl living in the 1920s.