Geography

It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness". . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not...

By Naomi Shihab Nye (Our Great Big World, Middle East) The Turtle of Oman shows what life is like for a child in modern-day Oman. Sidi tells his grandson Aref stories about what Oman was like before modernization, which shows...