Orange for the sunsets
(Book)

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In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972. Asha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. African. Girl. Boy. Short. Tall. But when Idi Amin announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe can see -- not the shared after-school samosas or Asha cheering for Yesofu at every cricket game. Determined for her life to stay the same, Asha clings to her world tighter than ever before. But Yesofu is torn, pulled between his friends, his family, and a promise of a better future. Now as neighbors leave and soldiers line the streets, the two friends find that nothing seems sure -- not even their friendship. Tensions between Indians and Africans intensify and the deadline to leave is fast approaching. Could the bravest thing of all be to let each other go?--,Provided by Publisher.

600L,Lexile

Decoding demand: 92 (very high),Semantic demand: 100 (very high),Syntactic demand: 84 (very high),Structure demand: 87 (very high),Lexile

Accelerated Reader AR,MG,4.1,7,502637.

Rebecca Caudill Award, 2022

Caudill Award, 2022