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When stars are scattered / Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed ; color by Iman Geddy.
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525553915
- ISBN: 0525553916
- ISBN: 9780525553908
- ISBN: 0525553908
- ISBN: 9780605020641
- Physical Description: 256 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This book is a work of fiction based on true events. It reflects the author's present recollections of experiences over time. Some names and characteristics have been changed or invented, some events have been compressed, and dialogue has been re-created." -- title page verso. |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 9-12. Dial Books for Young Readers. Grades 4-6. Dial Books for Young Readers. GN530L Lexile. Decoding demand: 93 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 74 (high) Structure demand: 85 (very high) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.7 4.0 508950. |
| Awards Note: | Nominee: Young Hoosier Book Award, 2022-2023: Middle grades (6-8) |
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| Genre: | Graphic novels. Biographies. Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels. Juvenile works. |
Available copies
- 76 of 100 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 100 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Adams PL Sys. - Geneva Branch | J GN JAM (Text) | 34207002473883 | Juvenile Fiction | Checked out | 04/30/2024 |
| Adams PL Sys. - Geneva Branch | J GN JAM (Text) | 34207002473891 | Juvenile Fiction | Checked out | 05/16/2024 |
| Adams PL Sys. - Geneva Branch | J GN JAM (Text) | 34207002473909 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Adams PL Sys. - Geneva Branch | J GN JAM (Text) | 34207002473917 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Adams PL Sys. - Geneva Branch | J GN JAM (Text) | 34207002473925 | Juvenile Fiction | Checked out | 05/16/2024 |
| Akron Carnegie PL - Akron | J GN JAM (Text) | 75253000065632 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Available | - |
| Alexandria-Monroe PL - Alexandria | jGN JAM (Text) | 37521531037176 | AMPL Juvenile Graphic Novel | Available | - |
| Barton Rees Pogue Mem. PL - Upland | JGN JAMIESON victoria When (Text) | 76277000040432 | Juvenile Graphic Novels* | Available | - |
| Batesville Mem. PL - Batesville | YF GRAPHIC JAMIESON (Text) | 34706001740374 | Childrens | Available | - |
| Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Eastern Branch | JUV GRAPHIC NOVEL JAM (Text) | 36804000298243 | GRAPHIC NOVEL-J | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal offamily and daily life in a refugee camp"-- - Baker & Taylor
A Somali refugee who spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp and the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl present the graphic-novel story of a young refugee who struggles with leaving behind his nonverbal brother when he has an opportunity to help his family by going to school. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations. - Penguin Putnam
A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day.
Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. It's an intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told to New York Times Bestselling author/artist Victoria Jamieson by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story.
