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The Bone Sparrow

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“Indispensable.”-Booklist (starred review)
CARNEGIE MEDAL 2017 FINALIST
Subhi is a refugee. He used to be born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a far off hometown, and the center is the only world he knows. But each and every night, the faraway whales sing to him, the birds tell him their stories, and the magical Night Sea from his mother’s stories brings him gifts. As Subhi grows, his imagination threatens to burst beyond the limits of the fences that contain him. Until one night, it sort of feels to do just that.

Subhi sees a scruffy girl on the other side of the wire mesh, a girl named Jimmie, who appears with a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it herself, Jimmie asks Subhi to resolve her circle of relatives’s love songs and tragedies that are penned there.

Subhi and Jimmie might both find comfort-and perhaps even freedom-as their tales unfold. But not until every has been braver than ever before and made choices that could change the whole lot.


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