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Zephaniah, Benjamin

Refugee Boy

295 pp. | Bloomsbury | July, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-7475-5086-7 $$15.95
(2) 4-6 For fourteen-year-old Alem's Ethiopian father and his Eritrean mother, no place in either country is safe; neither parent will sacrifice Alem to the warring madness. Alem and his father travel to England where the latter leaves his son to, he hopes, a better life as a refugee. Zephaniah doesn't soft-pedal the tragedy of the events, and Alem's status as a stranger in a strange land is what Zephaniah documents in his moving tale.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2002

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