Books with author Russell Crowe

For most people, home is a place with four walls. It's a place to eat, sleep, rest, and live. For a refugee, the concept of home is ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-wavering. And often, it doesn't have any walls at all.Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with Dee Dee during the Vietnamese Boat People Exodus in 1979, when people from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled their homelands for safety. For a refugee, the trip is a long and perilous one, filled with dangerous encounters with pirates and greedy sailors, a lack of food and water, and even the stench of a dead body onboard. When they finally arrive at a refugee camp, Lam befriends Dao, a girl her age who becomes like a sister-a welcome glimmer of happiness after a terrifying journey. Readers will feel as close to Lam as the jade pendant she wears around her neck, sticking by her side throughout her journey as she experiences fear, crushing loss, boredom, and some small moments of joy along the way. Written in verse, this is a heartfelt story that is sure to build empathy and compassion for refugees around the world escaping oppression.

Forced to move every twelve days, what would happen to your life?It’s 1927. Rembrandt is the only child in the tiny community of Three Farms and his two aunts grow desperate for babies of their own. Hope and Hell arrive in a mysterious black bottle, and on a moonless night a dark spell is cast. Soon after, a man wearing black top-coat, and a ‘glad-ta-meet-ya’ smile comes to visit. The devil seeks payment, and a dangerous wager is made. Until they can defeat him, Rembrandt, Pa, and Uncle Thompson must embark on the journey of their lives, for if they stay in one place for more than twelve days terrible things happen. But where and when will they find a champion capable of defeating the Black Bottle Man?Time ticks.Lives change.Every twelve days.

Forced to move every twelve days, what would happen to your life? 1927. Rembrandt is the only child in the tiny community of Three Farms. Soon his two aunts grow desperate for babies of their own. A man wearing a black top-coat and a glad-ta-meet-ya smile arrives with a magic bottle and a deadly deal is made. Determined to undo the wager, Rembrandt, Pa, and Uncle Thompson embark on the journey of their lives, for if they stay in one place for more than twelve days terrible things happen. But where and when will they find a champion capable of defeating the Black Bottle Man? Time ticks. Lives change. Every twelve days. . .

This is a brain teasing children’s activity book. The book is composed of fun colour spot the difference picture puzzles. There is a bird theme running through all pictures. You will find ten almost identical colour pictures with ten differences to be discovered within each picture. The differences vary from easy to more difficult which would suit children of all ages from four years and up.The puzzles are an excellent means for developing a range of skills from observation, exercise memory, concentration, focus, while having a fun time finding the differences. All the while keeping active minds occupied and entertained. The picture solutions are illustrated at the back of the book ... How well did you do?

We take a look at the adventures of little Lulu while learning about the different days of the week. Lulu is a little girl doggie, she is a bundle of energy, who keeps her home and garden running smoothly and orderly every day, from Monday to Sunday.Lulu lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. She lives in a complex which has seven units, with Chris and Zeek. All the units share a common garden area, so Lulu really has a big job keeping everything running as it should.We start off on a Monday, the beginning of the week. Lulu has a different chore for each day, which always brings a new exciting adventure. She is kept busy the entire work/school week, from Monday to Friday. Then it is weekend, Saturday and Sunday, which is a lot of fun.

In 2003, there were almost seven million criminals in the United States. But only about two million of them were behind bars. In Alternatives to Prison, you'll learn why those other five million people are out on parole or probation. You'll also learn about: rehabilitation, community service, boot camps, day reporting, house arrest, and what the future may hold for other alternatives to prison.

A trip to Morocco in North Africa, a mysterious dancing girl, a tall, dead eyed stranger and a missing lucky charm. When Crystal offered to help Sheena, little did she realize how difficult it was going to be to carry out her strange request.Relentless in her pursuit of helping the dancing girl and learning the secret of the lucky charm, Crystal stumbles into a war of of lies and deception that takes the amateur teen sleuth and her friends on a journey of mystery and danger. With high speed pursuits, scimitar wielding henchmen on their tails and dead eyed stranger trying to kill them, Crystal and friends will have to up their game to leave this mystery in Africa alive.

In one wing of Sweden's top-security prison, red drapes hang from the ceiling while small candles burn on an altar and men kneel in prayer; prisoners can apply to spend some of their sentence in religious meditation. Meanwhile, the guards at Jyderup State Prison in Denmark don't wear uniforms, and they don't carry guns. Prisons in the Congo, on the other hand, are so bad that, according to the New York Times, "If there is a worse place on earth than a Congolese prison, stay well away." Incarceration Around the World describes prison conditions on every continent, from Malawi and Kenya in Africa to China and India in Asia, from Brazil and Venezuela in South America to European nations like Sweden and Denmark.