{"product_id":"9781773060866","title":"Sit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own. In each story, a child makes a decision and takes action, be that a tiny gesture or a life-altering choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJafar is a child laborer in a chair factory and longs to go to school. Sue sits on a swing as she and her brother wait to have a supervised visit with their father at the children’s aid society. Gretchen considers the lives of concentration camp victims during a school tour of Auschwitz. Mike survives seventy-two days of solitary as a young offender. Barry squirms on a food court chair as his parents tell him that they are separating. Macie sits on a too-small time-out chair while her mother receives visitors for tea. Noosala crouches in a fetid, crowded apartment in Uzbekistan, waiting for an unscrupulous refugee smuggler to decide her fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese children find the courage to face their situations in ways large and small, in this eloquent collection from a master storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Groundwood Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050591469808,"sku":"9781773060866","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781773060866_p0.jpg?v=1763709409","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781773060866","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}