Region: Sudan

Materials from Sudan

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

By nersum | 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 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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The Lost Boys Of Natinga: A School For Sudan’s Young Refugees

By shortk | 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 shortk | 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 shortk | 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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