Lost Boy Lost Girl:Escaping Civil War in Sudan

A love story...kind of. A war story for sure. Every other chapter is told from the perspective of one of the lost girls and one of the lost boys of the Sudan. You get to hear from them the beginning of the war to their end in America. It's nonfiction  - some of it is hard to handle (hurts your heart). It has always been a struggle to find an interesting book for the continent of Africa to appeal to 12 year old girls. This might be it - I'd have to test it out. Amazon writes, "One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There’s warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting to American life. For its importance as a primary source, for its inclusion of the rarely told female perspective of Sudan’s lost children, for its celebration of human resilience, this is the perfect story to inform and inspire young readers." All in all, I say: READ IT