My Olive Tree Journal When he steadfastly avoids relationships

When he steadfastly avoids relationships

miles away from wealthy white downtown

Only Calla knows it isn’t really August

and it’s like nothing you’ve read before

My Olive Tree Journal When he steadfastly avoids relationshipsIn this simple, touching picture book about the healing power of a loving community, a girls grandpa and her neighbors help her grow an olive tree in a war torn land. Salams grandpa says that olive trees are strong and that their roots run deep in their Palestinian land. They connect everyonefrom 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 she