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One thousand hills / James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : Scholastic Canada Ltd., 2017Description: 240 pages. 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781443157605 (paperback)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: One thousand hills.DDC classification:
  • j823/.914 23
Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Summary: "This a heart-wrenching story of how one young boy's life was forever changed during the Rwandan genocide gives older readers a crystalline understanding of the consequences of unfettered prejudice in the modern world. Agabande, Rwanda, April 1994. Life is simple but good. Pascal and his brother go to school with their friends, their parents work hard, their little sister is growing up, and on Sunday almost everyone they know goes to church to thank God for his goodness. But lately, there have been whispers and suspicious glances around town, and messages of hate on the radio, and people are leaving ̥Then, in one awful night, Pascal's ordinary life in the land of a thousand hills is turned upside down. An important story of the awful consequences of unfettered prejudice in the modern world, written by a survivor."-- Provided by publisher.
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BOOK Meaford Public Library Junior Collection Fiction J FIC Roy (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 65865
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Previously published: Parkside SA: Omnibus Books, 2016.

"This a heart-wrenching story of how one young boy's life was forever changed during the Rwandan genocide gives older readers a crystalline understanding of the consequences of unfettered prejudice in the modern world. Agabande, Rwanda, April 1994. Life is simple but good. Pascal and his brother go to school with their friends, their parents work hard, their little sister is growing up, and on Sunday almost everyone they know goes to church to thank God for his goodness. But lately, there have been whispers and suspicious glances around town, and messages of hate on the radio, and people are leaving ̥Then, in one awful night, Pascal's ordinary life in the land of a thousand hills is turned upside down. An important story of the awful consequences of unfettered prejudice in the modern world, written by a survivor."-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic format.

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