Pub Date: July 12, 2011
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2012376374
Lexile Code: 0800
Features: Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.79" H x 7.60" L x 5.17" W ( 0.42 lbs) 288 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration Immigration and Refugees | Family | General see also headings under Social Themes | Places | Asia | Asian American and Pacific Islander | Prejudice Racism and Colorism | Middle East
Series: Kabul Chronicles
Description: Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Brief description: N. H. Senzai is the author of the acclaimed Shooting Kabul, which was on numerous state award lists and an NPR Backseat Book Club Pick. Its companion, Saving Kabul Corner, was nominated for an Edgar Award. While her first two books are based in part on husband's experience fleeing Soviet-controlled Afghanistan in the 1970s, her third, Ticket to India, is based on her own family's history. She is also the author of Escape from Aleppo. Ms. Senzai lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at NHSenzai.com.
Review Quotes: "Bay Area writer N.H. Senzai, who based her first novel in part on her husband's family's escape from Soviet-controlled Afghanistan in 1979, has a warm, engaging style that belies the subject matter. She keeps the story firmly through Fade's eyes. He is a middle-schooler, plucky but not precocious, struggling to adjust to his new life in America, stricken by guilt about his sister, worried about his ailing mother, but still a boy."--"Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle, July 01 2010".