Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees / Mary Beth Leatherdale and Eleanor Shakespeare.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto : Annick Press, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: vi, 56 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour mapsContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1554518962
- 9781554518968
- 305.9/06914 23
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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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