turkey

Explores the country of Turkey, including the culture, food, celebrations, and more.

Describes the holidays and festivals celebrated throughout the year in Turkey.

When twelve-year-old Dalya is dragged to Istanbul to help sell her family's ancestral home, the visit begins unpromisingly. Most of the aged mansion is off-limits because it's falling apart, her father is ignoring her, and her great aunt keeps prattling on about a family curse. Despite warnings against it, Dalya tiptoes upstairs, where she finds an old bottle of magic ink hidden under a floorboard. She asks the bottle's jinn (aka genie) to grant her a simple wish...to send her home. Except the jinn interprets "go home" to mean "send me back in time and turn me into a cat." Then Dalya must set off on a wild adventure through Istanbul's animal underworld to find the jinn with the power to set things right.

In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm, sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.

What is it like to live in or visit Turkey? What makes Turkey's culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Turkish people.

Examines the main campaigns of the Ottoman Empire, and the part played by elite soldiers such as the Janissaries and sipahis, while discussing the social and economic impact of their conquests, which stretched from Vienna to the upper Arab peninsula.

"In Istanbul with her father, twelve-year-old Dalya's wish turns her into a cat and sends her to 1907, where she meets an ancestor and uncovers a family secret, aided by animal friends"--Provided by publisher.

"A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his. I suffer the pathetic torment of profound helplessness, just as he did"--Provided by publisher.