Full name: Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan

Author: John Bul Dau Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Biographies, History Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781426307089 142630708X

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. Similar books: Playing the Enemy by John Carlin Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong The Obamas by Peter Firstbrook The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose Wings on My Sleeve by Eric Brown Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy