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Lost girl found / Leah Bassoff and Laura DeLuca.

by Bassoff, Leah, 1971-

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Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2014.

Girls -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

Refugee camps -- Africa -- Fiction.

Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction.

9781554984169 (bound)

1554984165 (bound)

9781554984176 (pbk.)

1554984173 (pbk.)

212 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-208).

When war comes to her village in southern Sudan, Poni is forced to flee, and join thousands of refugees travelling on foot and experiencing great hardship on their way to a refugee camp.

"For Poni, life in her small village in southern Sudan is simple and complicated at the same time. Stay in school. Beat up any boy who tries to show attention. Watch out for the dangers in the river. But then the war comes. When soldiers arrive in her village, and bombs begin to rain from the sky, there is only one thing for Poni to do. Run for her life. Though many of the villagers do not escape, she does. An unknown man carries her across the river, and then she is walking a long, dusty trek across the African countryside with thousands of refugees. Along the way, many die from starvation, land mines, wild animals, and despair, but Poni does not, driven by the sheer will to survive and the hope that she can make it to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, and one day be reunited with her family..."--From publisher.

Grades: 8-up. SLJ.

Historical fiction.

DeLuca, Laura, 1963-

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