Illustrator: Doug ChaykaFor: School age kids (to be able to understand refugee camps)
Published: Sept, 2007
Rating: 4
Read: Jan. 3, 2009
Endpapers: Dirt Brown
Lina and Feroza meet in a refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, after trekking from Afghanistan. When relief workers throw clothing from a truck, each girl finds half of a pair of sandals. Shy at first, they become friends, sharing the sandals, telling each other about their journeys, watching the boys getting lessons in the school tent, then trying out the letters and lessons in the sand for themselves..... A shalwar-kameez is mentioned, as is Ramadan, but this is the story of friendship and survival in a modern-day refugee camp.
Illustrations cover the entire page, no white edges or backgrounds, lots of browns and tans giving the story a real desert/sand/dirt/refugee feel.
This would be a good discussion-starter in class to get the kids thinking and talking about what's going on in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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