Friendship Religious

Samari has just turned 17 and is asking her parents for more privileges. She wants to stay out until 12 midnight like her best friend Rhosea who is just 16. Her parents won't change her curfew. There is a "P-a-r-t-y in the Hood" Saturday night, but Samari doesn't want to go and leave early. What does she do?

Two neighbors - one Jewish, one Muslim - have always been best friends. When they both fall on hard times, can they find a way to help each other? In Fawzia Gilani's retelling of this folktale - which has both Jewish and Arab origins - differences are not always causes for conflict and friendship can overcome any obstacle.

The weatherman predicted rain. So Nora built an ark. Just like Noah. Well.... Not just like Noah. Noah welcomed a host of animals two-by-two. Nora’s passenger list includes two backyard spiders, a pair of battery-operated monkeys, and a couple of unimpressed cats. Nora also employs her little brother, some dusty wooden boxes, and a sizeable dose of contagious imagination in her distinctive re-creation of the timeless story of Noah’s Ark.