Seeds 18 Peers 46

Tension and hope coincide in this great novel about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by an Somali refugee to the award-winning Newbery Honor Girl Roller Girl.
Omar and his younger brother Hassan spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is difficult there: enough food, madness hurts and without access to medical care, Omar meets his brother who is a friend. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it is an opportunity to change his future. . . But it also means leaving her brother, the only family member left with her, every day.
Heart tension, hope, and gentle humor are shared in this novel about a waiting young man and a young man who can create a sense of family and home in a more complex environment. It is a close, important and unforgettable image of the daily life of refugees, as told by New York Times writer Bison Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, a Somali man who lived the story.
