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  • Kiss the Dust

Kiss the Dust

Author
Elizabeth Laird
Publication Date
April 19, 1994
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  6th − 8th
Language
English
Kiss the Dust
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Description

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

No place is safe for Tara and her family. Twelve-year-old Tara Hawrami lives a normal life in Iraq--until the day she sees a boy, a Kurd like herself, get shot by soldiers in the street. But Tara still doesn't realize just how dangerous life for the Kurds has become until the Iraqi secret police come for her father. Then her family must flee their home for the mountains of Kurdistan, but even there they are not safe. Iraqi bombs drive the Hawramis over the border into Iran, where they must live in a brutal refugee camp. Will they ever find a place they can truly call home again?

* "Laird weaves compelling facts about the conflict between the Arabs and the Kurds into her gripping tale about one family's escape to freedom."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"An exciting, behind-the-headlines story."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Publication date
April 19, 1994
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140368550
Lexile Measure
850
Publisher
Puffin Books
BISAC categories
JUV013060 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents
JUV039250 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
JUV030110 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Middle East
Library of Congress categories
Refugees
Iraq
Iran
Kurds

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review
Set in Iraq, this novel "weaves compelling facts about the conflict between the Arabs and the Kurds into a gripping tale about one family's escape to freedom," said PW in a starred review. Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
Elizabeth Laird
Elizabeth Laird is the multi-award-winning author of several much-loved children's books, including A Little Piece of Ground and Jake's Tower. She has been shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal six times.
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