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Author: Judy Walgren
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes daily life at Natinga, a refugee camp and school established in 1993 in southern Sudan for boys forced from their homes by that country's Civil War.
Author: Benjamin Ajak
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1610395999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America. Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over Sudan in search of refuge. Their journey led them first to Ethiopia and then, driven back into Sudan, toward Kenya. They walked nearly one thousand miles, sustained only by the sheer will to live. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky is the three boys' account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and the purity of their child's-eye-vision, Alephonsian, Benjamin, and Benson recall by turns: how they endured the hunger and strength-sapping illnesses-dysentery, malaria, and yellow fever; how they dodged the life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles and soldiers alike-that dogged their footsteps; and how they grappled with a war that threatened continually to overwhelm them. Their story is a lyrical, captivating, timeless portrait of a childhood hurled into wartime and how they had the good fortune and belief in themselves to survive.
Author: John Bul Dau
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1426307098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There’s warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting to American life. For its importance as a primary source, for its inclusion of the rarely told female perspective of Sudan’s lost children, for its celebration of human resilience, this is the perfect story to inform and inspire young readers.
Author: Nancy Hahn
Publisher: ECKO House Publishing
Published: 2010-09-10
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9781427653512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nancy Hahn's children's book "One Lost Boy," telling the life story of Bol Malual. It is the first children's book to address the story of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Author: Joan Hecht
Publisher:
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780976387503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the first time, “The Journey of the Lost Boys” offers readers a chronological timeline of the epic journey taken by these children, beginning in their rural villages of Southern Sudan and ending with their arrival as young men to the United States. Narrated through the voice of Joan Hecht, one of their American mentors, whom they lovingly call “mom” or “Mama Joan;” “The Journey of the Lost Boys” is a compelling story of courage, faith and the sheer determination to survive by a group of young orphaned boys. Because of Ms. Hecht's personal relationship with them, she is able to portray their story in a way that most famous reporters and authors cannot. In addition to her extensive research of the political and historical events surrounding this long lasting civil war, are the heart-rending personal stories of the boys themselves.
Author: Willem Van der Walt
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780195715187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jan, a former Lost Boyz gang member, is studying social work at the University of Cape Town and making new friends when his life is disrupted by an abandoned baby he wants to keep and by his blood-brother's urgings that he help in the upcoming gang wars.
Author: Felicia R. McMahon
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009-10-20
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1628469978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2008 Chicago Folklore Prize Felicia R. McMahon breaks new ground in the presentation and analysis of emerging traditions of the “Lost Boys,” a group of parentless youths who fled Sudan under tragic circumstances in the 1990s. With compelling insight, McMahon analyzes the oral traditions of the DiDinga Lost Boys, about whom very little is known. Her vibrant ethnography provides intriguing details about the performances and conversations of the young DiDinga in Syracuse, New York. It also offers important insights to scholars and others who work with refugee groups. The author argues that the playful traditions she describes constitute a strategy by which these young men proudly position themselves as preservers of DiDinga culture and as harbingers of social change rather than as victims of war. Drawing ideas from folklore, linguistics, drama, and play theory, the author documents the danced songs of this unique group. Her inclusion of original song lyrics translated by the singers and descriptions of conversations convey the voices of the young men. Well researched and carefully developed, this book makes an original contribution to our understanding of refugee populations and tells a compelling story at the same time.
Author: Aher Arop Bol
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aher Arop Bol is a boy of three or four when his uncle carries him from the bush into an Ethiopian refugee camp. It is the 1980s and they are fleeing the civil war in Sudan.
Author: Susan Stan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0810841983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The World through Children's Books is a valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others who seek to promote international understanding through children's literature. The annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, contains nearly 700 books representing 73 countries. Sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).
