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Marsh,
Katherine. |
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Ahmed and his father were trying to
escape the war in Syria. They left Aleppo with little more
than the clothes on their backs. After almost making it to
Belgium, Ahmed gets separated from his father and fears he
is dead. Now he must figure out what to do. He
doesn’t even speak the language of this new country he is
now stranded in. Ahmed knows he needs to find a place to
stay and food to eat. As he wanders around the
strange city, he sees a house that looks like it might be
a good place to hide. He finds an unused basement where it
is warm and quickly settles in and falls asleep. Max, an
American living in Brussels, is miserable that he is
having to repeat the sixth grade. He is not happy about
leaving his home in Washington, D.C. One night he hears
noises in the basement and goes to investigate. He
discovers Ahmed. The boys don’t speak the same language,
but they are drawn together and help each other through
the rough parts of their lives. (Oklahoma
Sequoyah Book Awards, 2020)
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| SUBJECTS: Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction. Courage -- Fiction. Hope -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Teenage boys -- Belgium -- Brussels -- Fiction. Teenage refugees -- Belgium -- Brussels -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction. Syrians -- Belgium -- Fiction. Americans -- Belgium -- Fiction. Brussels (Belgium) -- Fiction. |
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