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Author Fleming, Melissa.

Title A Hope More Powerful than the Sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival / Melissa Fleming.

Imprint New York : Flatiron Books, 2018

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS True Stories  TR FLEMING    ---  Available
 PCMS True Stories  TR FLEMING    ---  Available
Edition Young Readers' Edition
Description 290 pg : [ill?], [xx cm.]
Note A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by her countrys brutal civil war. She and her family escape to Egypt, but life soon quickly becomes dangerous for Syrians in that country. Doaa and her fiancé decide to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education, but four days after setting sail on a smugglers dilapidated fishing vessel along with five hundred other refugees, their boat is struck and begins to sink...Doaas eye-opening story, as told by Melissa Fleming, represents the millions of unheard voices of refugees who risk everything in a desperate search for a safe future.
Study Program AR RL 7.3 12.0 500835 PCMS.
Subject LCSH: Refugees-Syria
LCSH: Syria-History-Civil War-2011-
LCSH: Syria-Emigration and immigration
LCSH: Europe-Emigration and immigration-Government policy
ISBN 9781250235824

 
    
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