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Homes : a refugee story / Abu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung.

al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr, 2001- (author.). Yeung, Winnie, 1982- (author.).

Summary:

"Homes tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's immigration experience."-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781988298283 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 216 pages ; 18 cm
  • Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books, [2018]

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Subject: al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr, 2001-
Refugee children > Alberta > Edmonton > Biography.
Refugee children > Iraq > Biography.
Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- > Personal narratives, Iraqi.
Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- > Refugees > Alberta > Edmonton > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Abu Bakr al Rabeeah is a high school student in Edmonton, Canada. Winnie Yeung is a teacher who lives in Edmonton with her black pug, Zoe. Homes is her first book.

Abu Bakr al Rabeeah lives in Edmonton, Canada. Homes: A Refugee Story was on CBC's Canada Reads 2019 and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing.

Winnie has been an English teacher for over ten years. Homes is her first book and received extensive critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing. Homes was also a finalist on CBC's Canada Reads 2019. When she is not teaching, writing, or reading, Winnie likes to spend her days cooking, baking, and playing with her black pug, Zoe. Edmonton, Canada is her permanent home, but her writing retreat/tiny home (named The Mini Winnie, of course) is on Vancouver Island.

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