NO SAFE PLACE
Author: Ellis, Deborah

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Groundwood
Pages: 208
Price ( Hardback ): $16.95
Publication Date: September 1, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-88899-973-3
Category: Fiction

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Fifteen-year-old Abdul, an Iraqi Kurd, has escaped war-torn Baghdad and traveled for four months across six countries only to hit a dead-end in the Jungle in Calais, a community of migrants trying to survive in squalid shanties with winter coming. ...

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