My Olive Tree Journal Amie’s life at court is

Amie’s life at court is drudgery—the chores are difficult

miles away from wealthy white downtown

She searches for truth with poet Claudia Rankine and historian Henry Louis Gates

and it’s like nothing you’ve read before

My Olive Tree Journal Amie’s life at court isIn 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