Reviews tagging 'Death'

When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed

21 reviews

tinytrashqueen's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Animal death

Minor: Suicide

faranae's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Animal death, Drug abuse, Ableism, War, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Bullying

Depicts a refugee's life over the course of over a decade, including chronic hunger and deep poverty. Some readers may like to know how the author's life turned out to get through the more difficult material:

He lives in the USA with his wife and 5 children. They succeeded in finding his long lost mother, who remains a refugee but in contact with them. Hassan has medical care. Maryam is a fictional character composed of stories of other girls.

rini's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, and War

Minor: Suicide

bodiesinbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, and War

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Medical content, Child abuse, Pregnancy, and Suicide

gerry94's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Death

library_dreamer's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Violence, Gun violence, and Sexism

sammieiris's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Misogyny

Minor: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Suicide

pucksandpaperbacks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

A fantastic graphic novel about Omar's life in a refugee camp in Kenya. His brother is nonverbal and is prone to seizures. I learned a lot about Omar's life and I loved the author's note at the end from Omar providing resources. Lancaster, PA is close to me and I'll be checking out those resources. Highly recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Death of parent, and Ableism

lyricalreads's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Suicide

linesiunderline's review

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

It is easy to understand why this audiobook is an award winner. The full cast recording, the attention to detail in the production, does so much to create an emotional and resonant listening experience.

It’s a short listen but such an intimate one. You are pulled right into the world of these brothers, into their daily lives in the refugee camp, coming to know their friends and community, and have a sense of their struggles and past traumas and dreams. It was compelling and difficult. Their story - and the stories of so many other refugees - needs to be heard. This is an important book and I am so impressed by how the authors brought this very challenging subject matter to life for younger readers in a way that is sensitive but unafraid of hard truths.

I haven’t even looked at the graphic novel but I can only imagine how the artwork would enhance the text. It was powerful just listening, so seeing images alongside the words must be something else entirely. I look forward to reading the book soon.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, and Ableism