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Nowhere Boy explores key issues of immigration, both legal and illegal. As we read, it is important to keep in mind that war, like all conflict, impacts many lives, both directly and indirectly. Further, we are all human—and in that way, we are also vulnerable.
Madame Pauline’s statement that Europe was safe “before” the current waves of immigration both ignores European history and foreshadows the terrorism panics later in the novel. “But Ahmed remembered how carefully his grandfather had always checked the ailing orchids people brought to his nursery.
Nowhere Boy. Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
Sep 3, 2018 · Katherine Marsh's book Nowhere Boy is the story of a 14-year-old Syrian refugee in Brussels, and his friendship with an American boy. She talks with NPR's Rachel Martin.
Aug 7, 2018 · Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmed’s struggling...
- 1250307589, 9781250307583
- Katherine Marsh
- Roaring Brook Press, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 · ***** An "important and riveting story, masterfully told" of family, sacrifice and the friendship between a young Syrian refugee and an American boy living in Brussels. Nowhere Boy is a "captivating book" that focuses on the "discourse around the refugee crisis
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Dec 12, 2018 · This realistic fiction novel for upper middle school/YA readers pairs well with Alan Gratz’s Refugee and rivals it in terms of power. The parallel story of two boys who have found themselves in uncomfortable, life-changing situations in Brussels, Belgium: American, Max, and Syrian, Ahmed.
