A true story of survival and hope, when war drove 12-year-old Edi and his family from their home in Kosovo, they fled across the Macedonian border to the Brazada refugee camp. They shared a tent with more than 20 other people while waiting for news about relatives, for the war to end, and for the day when they could finally go home. Color photos.
From the Chicago Tribune, May 7, 2000 What's it like to be a refugee child? Trish Marx and Cindy Karp are not interested in a political study but a human one, and so, after brief headnotes about their work and the region's history, the story becomes specific and personal: "This is what happened to one boy from Kosovo in the spring of his twelfth year." We see Edi lining up for water, playing at the children's center, or searching a bulletin board for the names of relatives; w e hear of the friends he misses. More time is spent on camp life than on his family's fears in Kosovo or the hardships of fleeing. Though the book tells a specifie story, the empathy created between Edi and readers suggests a larger, global message: Refugees are not "others" but ourselves.
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