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by Thanhha Lai
Published Oct 2020
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2019 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel
Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again.
by Bob Shacochis
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA magnum opus that brings to life an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.
In the Sea There are Crocodiles
by Fabio Geda
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsWhen a ten-year-old boy's village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal.
by Chris Cleave
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsThe publishers "don't want to spoil" the story by giving too much away - so we won't - but in brief it features a young Nigerian orphan, a well-off British couple, and the real distances in a globalized world which can be crossed in single day. Published as The Other Hand in the UK, Australia and India; and Little Bee in the USA and Canada.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsAt once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
by Ishmael Beah
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, hed been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.
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