Award-winner- Coretta Scott King Honor Award
Ms. Williams shares Garang's story as he abruptly leaves his home in southern Sudan when the war kills his village and family. Garang reveals the hardships he and the lost boys faced and how faith and their willingness to help each other sustained them.
My thirteen-year-old has been reading books about the Lost Boys and refugees in Africa the last couple of weeks (When Stars Are Scattered & A Long Walk to Water) for literature. He will read this picture book to cement his learning.
Recommended watching: God Grew Tired of Us documentary-depicts several of the "Lost Boys" coming to the U.S.A. and their adjustment. A review will be posted soon.
-Borrowed from the library.
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