For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child Vendor Code_V0354 Janni Lee Simner’s first novel

Janni Lee Simner’s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fiction—as familiar as a nightmare

Now all he can think about is her

until an army of zombies birdy-snatches him

In The Deals that Made the World

Seelig is a wildly popular and award-winning teacher and in What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 she shares with us what she offers her students –provocative stories

For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child Vendor Code_V0354 Janni Lee Simner’s first novelFrom the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life. A new life of freedom seemed within