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Pesta Abigail - How Dare The Sun Rise Memoirs Of A War Child - Paperback
Pesta Abigail - How Dare The Sun Rise Memoirs Of A War Child - Paperback
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Description: Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALS a's 2018 Quick Picks List * Bank Street's 2018 Best Books of the Year This gut - wrenching poetic memoir reminds us that no life story can be reduced to the word refugee. " New York Times Book Review A critical piece of literature contributing to the larger refugee narrative in a way that is complex and nuanced. School Library Journal (starred review) This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre immigrated to America and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six - year - old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably the rebel didn t pull the trigger and Sandra escaped. Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money they struggled to stay alive. Eventually through a United Nations refugee program they moved to America only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York. In this memoir Sandra tells the story of her survival of finding her place in a new country of her hope for the future and how she found a way to give voice to her people.
Title: How Dare The Sun Rise Memoirs Of A War Child
Author(s): Pesta Abigail
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062470157
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/15/2018
Description: Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALS a's 2018 Quick Picks List * Bank Street's 2018 Best Books of the Year This gut - wrenching poetic memoir reminds us that no life story can be reduced to the word refugee. " New York Times Book Review A critical piece of literature contributing to the larger refugee narrative in a way that is complex and nuanced. School Library Journal (starred review) This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre immigrated to America and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six - year - old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably the rebel didn t pull the trigger and Sandra escaped. Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money they struggled to stay alive. Eventually through a United Nations refugee program they moved to America only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York. In this memoir Sandra tells the story of her survival of finding her place in a new country of her hope for the future and how she found a way to give voice to her people.
Title: How Dare The Sun Rise Memoirs Of A War Child
Author(s): Pesta Abigail
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062470157
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/15/2018