Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees / Mary Beth Leatherdale and Eleanor Shakespeare.

By:

Leatherdale, Mary Beth

Contributor(s):

Shakespeare, Eleanor

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Toronto : Annick Press, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: vi, 56 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1554518962
9781554518968

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.9/06914 23

Summary: 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; Jos�e tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
J Non-Fiction 300-399	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Non-fiction	J 305. 906 LEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	2018 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Nominee		33321003140499

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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; Jos�e tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life.

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