How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child / Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail Pesta.
"This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn’t pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped. Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York."--Provided by the publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780062470140 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 288 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Creston Public Library | YA 967.572 UWI (Text)
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35140100024903 | Young Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kitimat Public Library | 967.572 Uwi (Text) | 32665002107359 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Nakusp Public Library | 920 UWI (Text) | 35160000739814 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-08-06 |
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