"This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn’t pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped. Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York."--Provided by the publisher.
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ISBN:9780062470140 (hc) :
Physical Description:print regular print 288 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,2017.
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