The Milk of Birds

by Sylvia Whitman

Book Overview

This timely, heartrending novel tells the moving story of a friendship between two girls: one an American teen, one a victim of the crisis in Darfur.

Know that there are many words behind the few on this paper...

Fifteen-year-old Nawra lives in Darfur, Sudan, in a camp for refugees displaced by the Janjaweed's trail of murder and destruction. Nawra cannot read or write, but when a nonprofit organization called Save the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442446838
• ISBN13: 9781442446830
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12