Region: Sudan

Materials from Sudan

The Lost Boys of Sudan

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

This book presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to wars in Sudan and the orphaned refugees known as the ‘Lost Boys’.

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Lost Boy, Lost Girl

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There’s warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting [...]

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A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk

By Book Importer | Published: February 2, 2011

In the little village of Duk Padiet in southern Sudan, a boy named Jacob Deng thrives on the love of his mother, the companionship of his sisters, the excitement of learning how to look after his uncle’s herds of cattle. The year is 1987, and suddenly in the night soldiers from the north invade the [...]

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My Name Is Sangoel

By Book Importer | Published: March 30, 2010

As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem.
Read more about My Name Is Sangoel in WOW Review.

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Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A young boy unites with thousands of other orphaned boys to walk to safety in a refugee camp in another country, after war destroys their villages in southern Sudan. Based on true events.
Awards:
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books

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Year of No Rain

By Kathy G. Short | 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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The Lost Boys Of Natinga: A School For Sudan’s Young Refugees

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A photojournalist vividly describes daily life at Natinga, a refugee camp and school established in 1993 in southern Sudan for boys forced from their homes by that country’s Civil War.

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Free As the Desert Wind

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A Sudanese boy befriends a young camel while helping his father drive a camel herd to Egypt.

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Dream Freedom

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Examines the modern day problem of slavery in Sudan while telling the story of how a group of American students fought to get this problem known and raise funds to help free those Dinka and Nuba tribe members already captured and working there.

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