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The book    In the Sea There are Crocodiles is about the true story of a young boy aged ten lived with his mother in Afghanistan he had lived there all there life but the Taliban made it too dangerous to stay in so they sought refuge in Pakistan. they lived in a apartment building it was dirty and disgusting but it was cheap. One night night his mother tells him 3 things. Don't use drugs, don't use weapons and don't steal the next day the main character (Enaiatollah Akbari) wakes up to find that his mother is gone.

Without any money or income he had to find a job even at such a young age so he had to find some way to work. He travelled all around the world by using traffickers in hope of finding a safer place to call home and a place where he can get a job. He travelled to Iran where he spent around 3 years working at a stone cutting factory he soon realized that there were tooo many policemen looking for illegals like him so he had to relocate to turkey but not without a incredibly difficult journey up a freezing mountain many of the people being trafficked with him died on this journey but he survived. After reaching Turkey he realized that there was no place to work so he had to relocate to Greece by sailing across the ocean in a rubber dinghy, when he arrived there he took a boat to Italy where he seek refuge and found a foster family.

This book is great for 10 and can be funny, but very rarely. It is very intense and is a great reader.The only problem is you can't put it down!

In the Sea There are Crocodiles is probably one of the best books that describes a refugees experience that I have ever read. It tells the harsh truth without covering up anything. The book is fact-based and doesn't tell the story with emotion and yet evokes great sympathy from the reader. I'm sure Enaiat's experience was far worse then the description but the beautiful use of imagery helps me picture the life of a refugee. I would recommend this book to everyone and in hopes that everyone will know more about the dangers and risks in the life of a refugee. I pray for all the people that have experienced a similar thing to Enaiat and hope for world peace.

The true story of Enaiatollah Akbari is one wrought with immense courage. It took a great deal of courage, fortitude, determination, and resilience to accomplish what Enaiatollah did at such a young age. It boggles my mind that a very young 10-year-old child could accomplish such a feat. All he wanted was somewhere to live and somewhere to belong.

I’ll definitely be passing word of this book along to other people.

Thank you to BookBrowse for recommending this book to me. In comparison to” A Long Way Gone", the story of a young boy's daunting walk out of Darfur, “In the Sea There are Crocodiles” is not as graphic and disturbing , yet just as hideous and harrowing. Enaiat's story told through the pen of Fabio Geda is a much softer and simplistic tale. A much lighter easier read, it lends itself to the Young Adult/Teenage book category, and slowly grabs adults by the throat and drags them into a world that one can only imagine in the best fiction. Only Enaiat’s story is real and his resilience and fate will leave you amazed. You find yourself cheering when he arrives in Italy 5 years later. You find yourself saddened and shocked by what is happening in Afghanistan and other parts of the world today and the unspeakable losses of children and families the world over. Required reading. Bravo Fabio Geda and God Speed Enaiatollah Akbari!