When Mehmet and his family leave their small Turkish village to seek a better life in Ankara, they find themselves living in poverty, but an encounter with a streetwise orphan and his own determination give Mehmet the courage to find a way out.
- ISBN: 9780316360784
- Author: Hicyilmaz, Gaye
- Published: 1992, Little Brown & Co (Juv)
- Themes: Courage, Hardship, Identity, new life, Orphans, Poverty, resilience, Survival
- Descriptors: Middle East, Realistic Fiction, Turkey, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 200