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Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees

Leatherdale, Mary Beth, author, Shakespeare, Eleanor, illustrator

2017

Overview

\"A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; Josâe tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba fl es Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting current refugee crisis into stark context.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Annick Press
• Subject: Refugees Juvenile literature. / Refugee children Juvenile literature. / Refugees Anecdotes Juvenile literature. / Refugee children Anecdotes Juvenile literature. / Refugee children. / Refugees. / Refugees Anecdotes. / Refugee children Anecdotes.
• ISBN: 9781554518968, 1554518962, 9781554518951, 1554518954

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV640.L355 2017	1	CHILDBOOK	CHILDREN