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Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this powerful memoir, Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tells the incredible true story of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night--wielding weapons, torches, machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2007
Language
English
Description
This prize-winning documentary explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan (Panther, John and Daniel). About 25,000 boys were forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. As young boys in the 1980s, they walked a thousand miles to escape their war-ridden homeland, and then had to make another arduous journey to escape Ethiopia. In 2001, 3600 lost boys, including these three, were invited by the United States...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
In war torn 1980's El Salvador, Chava, an eleven-year-old boy, suddenly becomes the 'man of the house' in a time when the government's army is forcibly recruiting children for civil war. As his single mother fights to protect her children, their village becomes both playground and battlefield. This is about life, love, the hope of peace, and the ennobling power of the human spirit. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Even though Mila is no longer 9 years old, her childhood memories sometimes overtake her. What happened there, halfway between dreaming and insomnia, continues in other forms here, twenty years later. Whether it's seeing a very old photo taken by her father, a red balloon rolling at her feet, or just lining up at a wicket, something still trembles in her. If the clouds sometimes remind her of where she came from, she guesses that they can also teach...
11) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
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