Because the Iraqi secret police are looking for her father, Tara Hawrami and her family must flee the only home they have ever known and live in a brutal refugee camp. "An important contribution to the growing number of refugee stories."--Kirkus Reviews, pointered review. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Great!:
This book is very exciting. If you are looking for a action packed book, this is a good book for you. There is a bombing scene in it, which is very exciting. I hope you read it!
It was very boring:
It never had a climax to it they were just always moving around to different places and no action every happend they would just here stories about the outside world from were they were living. The book just sucked and i don't think it should have made it to the publishing company. Thank you
Somehow Disappointed...:
Tara Hawrami is a thirteen-year-old girl living in Iraq in the 1980's. She has what we would call a normal life-living in a nice house, going shopping with her best friend, and having the mistaken feeling that nothing particularly bad is going to happen to her. But then the inevitable comes. Tara has always known that she was a Kurd, and has maybe even faintly known that Kurds are hated by the Iraqi goverment...but one day, when walking home from school, she sees a teenaged Kurdish boy die for his beliefs.... more info
Worth sharing:
I read this book to my students in a sole-charge school when the setting was still hot in the news, back in the early 90s. The story had us all gasping with identification as these blessed children in rural New Zealand imagined a life in turmoil. We still remember the pleasant life and then the flight over the mountains in the night. This books sits with Ann Holm's "I Am David", or Ian Seraillier's "The Silver Sword", as a novel that will help children understand the human suffering behind world politics... more info
