Year of No Rain

By shortk | Published: March 14, 2007

In 1999, when rebel soldiers come to their village in southern Sudan, Stephen and his friends escape but hope to be able to return again.

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  1. By WOW Currents » Windows to the Worlds — Part 3 on January 18, 2010 at 12:08 am

    [...] books about Sudan introduce students to the issue of civil war in that country. Year of No Rain by Alice Mead is a novel about the Bahr el Ghazal region of southern Sudan. In 1999, Stephen’s [...]

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