Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0888999496
ISBN-13
9780888999498
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
Imprint
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 13th, 2010
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
240 grams
Dimensions
19.00 x 12.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)People & places (Children's / Teenage)
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Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, driving her family from its tiny village. They flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother survive. Beginning with a refugee camp run by the British Army, the children are shunted from one temporary home to another, finally ending up in an orphanage where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then the new orphanage director, Susan Shedd, decides that shewill take the 300 refugee children back to their home villages -- a journey of 300 miles -- through the mountains, on foot. Samira embarks on the journey with wonder and fear. Even if they make it, will there be anyone in her old village to take her in?
When the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, nine-year-old Samira and her parents, brother, and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother survive. Shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, Samira finally ends up in an orphanage, where it seems that she will live out her childhood. Then Susan Shedd, the new orphanage director, arrives and, to Samira''s amazement, announces that she will take all the children back to their villages to make new lives for themselves. With wonder and fear, Samira and three hundred other orphans embark on an epic march of three hundred miles through the mountains towards home.
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