Melissa Fleming
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Language
English
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Description
Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight -- just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around -- nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutches two children, barely toddlers, to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who boarded a dangerously overcrowded ship bound for Sweden and a new life. For days, Doaa floats,...
2) A hope more powerful than the sea: one teen refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Describes the struggles of Syrian refugees following the country's brutal civil war.