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New York Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011.
Description
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
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Awards
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Winner — Young Adult — 2011)
Middle East Book Award (Winner — Youth Literature — 2010)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2011)