Lost Girl Found

Name: Lost Girl Found
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ISBN: 9781554984169

ISBN-10: 1554984165

ISBN-13: 9781554984169

Edition: 2015

Authors: Leah Bassoff, Laura DeLuca

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Publication date: 3/1/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Laura DeLuca teaches anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has done extensive fieldwork in East Africa and has written articles on her experiences with Sudanese refugees in Anthropology News, Anthropology Matters and Journal of Refugee Studies . She lives in Denver.