Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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[2017]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY FIC AND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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-- City of saints and thieves[2017]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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-- City of saints and thieves[2017], Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY F AND Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tina and her mother first arrived in Kenya as refugees from Congo desperately searching for a better life. Trading the peril of their besieged village for the busy metropolis of Sangui, they can barely believe their luck when Tina's mother finds work as a maid for the Greyhills, one of the city's most illustrious families. But when Tina discovers her mother shot dead in Mr. Greyhill's private study, she knows he pulled the trigger. With revenge on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving the streets on her own, training as a master thief - waiting for her chance for vengeance.
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-- City of saints and thieves[2017]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Young adult FIC ANDERSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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-- City of saints and thieves2018., Adolescent, Speak Call No: Mystery FIC Anderson Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:4 of 5 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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-- Let us go swiming on doomsday[2019]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: REALISTIC F AND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi must confront his painful past.
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-- Let us go swiming on doomsday[2019]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi, must confront his painful past"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Let us go swiming on doomsday2020., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Adventure Fic Anderson Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After his family is kidnapped, Abdi is forced to become a child soldier for Al Shabaab. Since his older brother is also part of the jihadist group, they trust him, but they don't know that he is also a spy for the Americans. He trains with the group, witnesses atrocities, and beginning to wonder if he's becoming like them. Eventually he escapes, but he still must reckon with his past.
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2009., Primary, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
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[2020]., General, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: 741.5 JAM Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--
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[2020]., Juvenile, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: 741.5 JAMIESON Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--
