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Kek comes from Africa. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He’s never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter - cold and unkind. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she’s missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: A girl who is in foster care, an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means “family” in his native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother’s fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.
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A beautiful and touching story
This book touched on the hardships of escaping a war torn country in a sensitive and engaging way suitable for younger readers. My ten year old daughter enjoyed this as much as I did.
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Kek has the attitude of he's going to make it through this. He's going to try try again. A good part was when his class took the field trip to the petting zoo. I like the ending the best!
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It was amazing, I loved everything about it, best book ever. The concept of this book was hope.
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Very good Performance
- By Muhammad on 04-07-15
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
- By: Rachel Simon
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution: the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone - Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught.
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Beautiful Attempt
- By FanB14 on 05-24-12
By: Rachel Simon
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Every Falling Star
- The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
- By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers".
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Riveting, sad, and inspirational
- By Janis Creason on 09-17-16
By: Sungju Lee, and others
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The Paper Cowboy
- By: Kristin Levine
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Though he thinks of himself as a cowboy, Tommy is really a bully. He's always playing cruel jokes on classmates or stealing from the store. But Tommy has a reason: life at home is tough. His abusive mother isn't well; in fact, she may be mentally ill, and his sister, Mary Lou, is in the hospital badly burned from doing a chore it was really Tommy's turn to do. To make amends, Tommy takes over Mary Lou's paper route.
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Great but...
- By Sabrina Perkins on 12-12-16
By: Kristin Levine
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The Good Braider
- By: Terry Farish
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Viola's strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family's journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finally to Portland, Maine. Here, in the sometimes too close embrace of the local Southern Sudanese Community, she dreams of South Sudan while she tries to navigate the strange world of America - a world where a girl can wear a short skirt, get a tattoo or even date a boy; a world that puts her into sharp conflict with her traditional mother who, like Viola, is struggling to braid together the strands of a displaced life.
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Storyline
- By Stanislav Pak on 04-01-18
By: Terry Farish
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Dogwood
- By: Chris Fabry
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, Stevie Ray Dallimore, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A single visit to a West Virginia prison can't resolve the tragic pasts of convicted child-killer Will Hatfield and his former sweetheart Karin. While she struggles with haunting regrets, Will vows to wait for her, no matter how long it takes.
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Great story
- By Linda Martin on 01-31-16
By: Chris Fabry
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The Littlest Bigfoot
- By: Jennifer Weiner
- Narrated by: Keith Nobbs, Emma Galvin, Jen Ponton
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Alice Mayfair, 12 years old, slips through the world unseen and unnoticed. Ignored by her family and shipped off to her eighth boarding school, Alice would like a friend. And when she rescues Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake one day, she finds one. But Millie is a Bigfoot, part of a clan who dwells deep in the woods. Most Bigfoots believe that people - NoFurs, as they call them - are dangerous, yet Millie is fascinated with the NoFur world. She is convinced that humans will appreciate all the things about her that her Bigfoot tribe does not.