My Olive Tree | Hazar Elbayya Crown Books for Young Readers mess-ups and cross-outs are part

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and foster Black excellence

Drawing from the darkest corners of Caribbean mythology

and at times humorous

An inspiration for readers of all ages

My Olive Tree | Hazar Elbayya Crown Books for Young Readers mess-ups and cross-outs are partIn this simple, touching picture book about the healing power of a loving community, a girl's grandpa and her neighbors help her grow an olive tree in a war torn land. Salam's grandpa says that olive trees are strong and that their roots run deep in their Palestinian land. They connect everyone from 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