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The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781536233117)
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x"Infused with empathy and understanding. . . . This is a book to be read and discussed." --School Library Connection (starred review) In 2018, Dina Nayeri--a former refugee and the daughter of a refugee--invited documentary photographer Anna Bosch Miralpeix to accompany her to Katsikas, a refugee camp in Greece, to record the hopes and struggles of ten young Farsi-speaking refugees from Iran and Afghanistan. Ranging in age from five to seventeen, the children live in partitioned shipping-crate homes crowded on a field below a mountain. Battling a dreary monster that wants to rob them of their purpose, dignity, and identity, each survives in his or her own way.
The Waiting Place is an unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time--and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author's reflections on life in a refugee camp. Locking the global refugee crisis sharply in focus, The Waiting Place is an urgent call to change what we teach young people about the nature of home and safety.
Author: Dina Nayeri
ISBN-10: 1536233110
ISBN-13: 9781536233117
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 10.00h x 9.60w x 0.20d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 517701 / Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found
Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2024
The Waiting Place is an unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time--and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author's reflections on life in a refugee camp. Locking the global refugee crisis sharply in focus, The Waiting Place is an urgent call to change what we teach young people about the nature of home and safety.
Author: Dina Nayeri
ISBN-10: 1536233110
ISBN-13: 9781536233117
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 10.00h x 9.60w x 0.20d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 517701 / Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found
Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2024
By Dina Nayeri
xDina Nayeri is a former refugee and the author of the adult title The Ungrateful Refugee, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus Prize. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries and in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, the New York Times, and many other publications. Of her work with Anna Bosch Miralpeix for The Waiting Place, she says, "Each morning we set off, me with my notebook, she with her camera and tripod, to see these brave little people fighting back against the waiting place--the monster that wants to get inside you, to change you." Dina Nayeri lives in Paris. Anna Bosch Miralpeix is a documentary photographer whose projects include the award-winning Bubble Beirut. A graduate of the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia, she is also a teacher and visual project developer. Anna Bosch Miralpeix lives in Barcelona.
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