Books with title Judy's Journey

This is an allegorical tale about a courageous chicken who wanted a family of her own. She endures numerous setbacks and is eventually forced her to make a treacherous journey to receive the help she needs. This tale mirrors my own difficulties with infertility. Difficulties, which were successfully overcome with the help and support of my Ob-Gyn, Dr. Walter Daniell, and Dr. Jay Nemiro of the Arizona Center of Fertility Studies http://www.acfs2000.com . To read more about the story behind Juliana's Journey , please go to my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fertility-support-stories/344332342353101

Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.Journey searches photographs for answers. He looks for family resemblances in Grandma's slbums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs his grandfather takes as the older man attempts to provide Journey with a past. In the process, the boy learns to look and finds that, for him, the camera is a means of finding things his naked eye has missed--things like the inevitability of his mother's departure and the love that still binds his family.In this spare and remarkable novel, Patricia MacLachlan explores abandonment and the extraordinary means by which a family reassembles itself.From the Hardcover edition.

When Zir rescues Amda from raiding soldiers in a dusty, remote gully, neither girl has any idea of the adventures they will soon share. As their journey together evolves, they find they have much in common as well as many vital skills to teach one another. Along with Zir’s faithful dog, Fayla, the girls face danger and good times as they make their way first through the desert and later over the sea to Amda’s city and back to Zir’s homeland. Set in a world long ago and far away—a world of nomads, traders, armies, and connected families—Zir’s Journey is a tale that challenges stereotypes of both culture and gender.

Explore a remarkable world of adventure, friendship, courage, and learning. When Zir rescues Amda from raiding soldiers in a dusty, remote gully, neither girl has any idea of the adventures they will soon share. As their journey together evolves, they find they have much in common as well as many vital skills to teach one another. Along with Zir’s faithful dog, Fayla, the girls face danger and good times as they make their way first through the desert and later over the sea to Amda’s city and back to Zir’s homeland. Set in a world long ago and far away––a world of nomads, traders, armies, and connected families––Zir's Journey is a tale that challenges stereotypes of both culture and gender.