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    Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
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    Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan

    By John Bul Dau

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    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 to American life. For its importance as a primary source, for its inclusion of the rarely told female perspective of Sudan’s lost children, for its celebration of human resilience, this is the perfect story to inform and inspire young readers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNational Geographic
    Release dateOct 12, 2010
    ISBN9781426307294
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      Excellent account of surviving genocide in Sudan.
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      Imagine losing your entire family, your home, and everything you own, as you are forced to walk for hundreds of miles in search of safe haven. This is the experience of the Lost Boys and Lost Girls of the Sudan told in the voices of John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech. In 1983, both of them lived in southern Sudan: 13-year-old John in the country, and 6-year-old Martha in the city. Though they came from different clans, their large families were all part of the Dinka tribe. The nation of Sudan erupted into civil war, splitting north and south. The northern troops invaded, killing people, burning buildings and crops, and destroying everything in their way. John's village was burned one night, and he thought his family was dead. He escaped into the darkness with a neighbor, and they joined a ragtag group headed for the Ethiopian border... five hundred miles away. They were walking, and most were barefoot. Meanwhile, Martha and her three-year-old sister Tabitha escaped a similar attack, saved by their father's cousin. They also thought the rest of their family had been killed. The girls faced the same walk to the refugee camp at the Ethiopian border, without much food or clean water, and with constant fear of being attacked by soldiers, lions, or crocodiles when they got water from the rivers. When they arrived at Pinyudu, the refugee camp, there were thousands of homeless Sudanese, all dependent upon deliveries of food from the United Nations twice a month to survive. The groups were evacuated to a second camp in Kenya, where schools were organized, and John met Martha. They were among the Lost Boys and Lost Girls who were allowed to emigrate to America, and John's story was the focus of the award-winning documentary film, God Grew Tired of Us. Told in both voices, they share the courage, strength, and tribal loyalty they experienced through unimaginable horrors. Less violent and graphic than Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, Lost Boy, Lost Girl makes the devastating effects of war abundantly clear, without losing the hope of the human spirit. 7th grade and up.