Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the United States
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Cross Group, Oppression & Resilience
Settings: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan
Ethnicity: Sudanese, Unspecified
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American, White/European American/Caucasian
Religion: Christian
Cross Group Sub: Direct, Non-Central, Positive
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary