Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Hutton, Keely

Description

1. 345 pages : genealogical table; 22 cm

Summary

1. "I want life. For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped apart by the Second Sudanese Civil War. But Achut wanted to do more than merely survive. She wanted to live. The twenty-two-year civil war essentially orphaned over 20,000 children and drove them from their villages in southern Sudan. Some of these children walked over a thousand miles, through dangerous war zones and across unforgiving deserts. They are often referred to as The Lost Boys. But there were girls, too. Achut Deng was one of them. This is her story. It's a story of unimaginable hardship and selfless bravery, of tormenting physical pain and amazing emotional resilience, of unbreakable bonds of friendship and family. It's a story about what happens when your dream comes true, only to give way to a new nightmare. It's about how hard you will fight to save your own life"--

Alternative title

1. Do not look back

Subject

1. Deng, Achut > Juvenile literature
2. Since 1983
3. 1983-2005
4. Refugees > Sudan > Biography > Juvenile literature
5. Refugees > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
6. Resilience (Personality trait) > Juvenile literature
7. Refugees
8. Resilience (Personality trait)
9. Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Juvenile literature
10. Sudan
11. United States

Genre/Form

1. Young adult literature.
2. Autobiographies.
3. Biographies.
4. History.
5. Young adult works.

Call number

1. Sc D 23-17

Audience (note)

1. Ages: 12-18
2. 910L

Author

1. Deng, Achut, author.

Title

1. Don't look back : a memoir of war, survival, and my journey from Sudan to America / Achut Deng and Keely Hutton.

Publisher

1. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022.

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Audience

1. Ages: 12-18 Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
2. 910L Lexile

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological term

1. Since 1983
2. 1983-2005

Added author

1. Hutton, Keely, author.

LCCN

1. 2022007776

ISBN

1. 9780374389727 (hardcover)
2. 0374389721 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. Sc D 23-17