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The Bone Sparrow
by Zana Fraillon
The Bone Sparrow will open young minds to one of the atrocities of modern society - refugee camps. Subhi is ten year-old Rohingya boy who's lived his whole life in a refugee camp in Australia. The conditions are awful. They eat slop, essentially, every day, unless there are government visitors. The guards are brutal, and his 12 year-old best friend is sent over to the men's area because they need the space for another family with small children.
Jimmie is a ten year-old girl living near the refugee camp. Her mother is dead, and her father works long hours. She lives far away from her school, so she doesn't always make it, and she's never learned how to read. She finds a way into the refugee camp at night, befriends Subhi, and gets him to read her mom's stories to her.
They share hot chocolate and horrible jokes. Jimmie shows Subhi pictures of her world on her phone, and amazingly they never get caught.
It's a sweet story of friendship, imagination, and fighting against an unjust system with a bittersweet ending. Subhi witnesses something awful, and he's going to tell the truth at the end in the hopes that conditions might get better for his family, himself, and the rest of the refugees.
http://www.momsradius.com/2017/06/book-review-bone-sparrow-mg.html
Jimmie is a ten year-old girl living near the refugee camp. Her mother is dead, and her father works long hours. She lives far away from her school, so she doesn't always make it, and she's never learned how to read. She finds a way into the refugee camp at night, befriends Subhi, and gets him to read her mom's stories to her.
They share hot chocolate and horrible jokes. Jimmie shows Subhi pictures of her world on her phone, and amazingly they never get caught.
It's a sweet story of friendship, imagination, and fighting against an unjust system with a bittersweet ending. Subhi witnesses something awful, and he's going to tell the truth at the end in the hopes that conditions might get better for his family, himself, and the rest of the refugees.
http://www.momsradius.com/2017/06/book-review-bone-sparrow-mg.html