Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees / Mary Beth Leatherdale ; Eleanor Shakespeare, illustrator.

By:

Leatherdale, Mary Beth [author.]

Contributor(s):

Shakespeare, Eleanor [illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Toronto : Annick Press Ltd., 2017Description: 64 pages : illustrations. 28 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781554518951
1554518954

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Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Stormy seas.DDC classification:

j305.9/06914 23

Available additional physical forms:

Issued also in electronic formats.

Summary: "A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book 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; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba fl es Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting current refugee crisis into stark context."-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Junior Collection	Non-fiction	J 305 .9 Leath (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Forest of Reading nominee 2018		15375
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Junior Collection	Non-fiction	J 305 .9 Leath (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Signed by author/Forest of Reading Nominee 2018		14865

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"A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book 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; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba fl es Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting current refugee crisis into stark context."-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic formats.

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